The Square Town blog

Square Town launches August 2026: a live 3D favicon wall where every square is $1, anyone can evict you for double, unkissed icons fade, the wall grows as it fills.

The Million Dollar Homepage sold out in 2006. Twelve pixel, favicon and logo walls you can still buy on in 2026, with prices and honest pros and cons.

Seventeen free and cheap places to promote an indie project in 2026: Show HN, r/SideProject, Product Hunt, free logo tiles, $1 favicon squares, honestly rated.

A plan for developers with many side projects: one hub page, consistent favicons, $1 squares as a visual index, batched launches, one changelog, a $20 budget.

The Million Dollar Homepage sold out in 2006 for $1.04M. In 2026 it's frozen with ~40% dead links, its clones mostly parked, and a new wave of $1 walls.

Twenty pixel walls, favicon walls and logo grids still selling spots in August 2026, ranked by price, reason to return, fit for site owners and signs of life.

A reference list of Million Dollar Homepage clones, 2005–2026, grouped by era: the 2005–07 wave, NFT years, fiat revival, agent grids, pay-to-rank, with status.

How Square Town runs a live 3D favicon wall on Cloudflare Workers, D1 and one Durable Object — WebSockets, Stripe webhooks, a favicon proxy — on the free tier.

About 40 % of the Million Dollar Homepage's links are dead. Why every pixel wall rots, and how Square Town's 90-day kiss decay, evictions and Hall of Clowns fix it.

How Square Town's evict-for-double rule plays out: the $1 to $1,024 ladder, why most squares are never evicted, how the Throne prices itself, and when to evict.

Practical favicon design tips: one shape, high contrast, no text, solid background, tested at 16 and 32 px — plus how Square Town's wall renders your icon.

How a solo developer markets a side project on $20: a budget table (domain, $1 squares on Square Town, one tiny paid test) plus the free tactics that work in 2026.

Square Town gives sites with no favicon a clown emoji and a public Hall of Clowns entry. How the check works, how to fix your favicon, and the recheck button.

The pay-to-hold-the-centre mechanic from King of the Ether Throne (2016) via Milliboard, The Pixel Orbit and overwrite.place to Square Town's $100 doubling Throne.

Practical 2026 favicon guide: favicon.ico vs link rel=icon, SVG with dark mode, the sizes that matter, a copy-paste head snippet, and how to verify it.

Where to put your $1 square on Square Town's favicon wall: near the Throne, in a corner or in a neighbourhood — and why the live area, aura ring and 3D view matter.

A 20-item indie hacker launch checklist for 2026: favicon, OG image, domain, analytics, Show HN, Product Hunt, r/SideProject, a $1 square on Square Town, llms.txt.

Internet real estate for beginners: domains vs pixels vs NFTs vs $1 squares, what you literally own, the risks, and a checklist before you buy.

An honest look at pixel advertising in 2026: no SEO value on canvas walls, tiny traffic, real value in fun and showcase. When $1 is worth it and $100 isn't.

Square Town's decay mechanic: an icon not kissed for 90 days fades to grayscale, anyone can kiss any icon free, kisses are counted, and how other keep-alives compare.

Pay-to-rank lists (Milliboard, The Pixel Orbit) vs spatial walls (Square Town, the Million Dollar Homepage): how each sells attention, and why Square Town picked the map.

About 120 of 434 pixel walls checked in August 2026 are dead. The named casualties, five reasons they die, and the design answers — Square Town could die too.

Favicons as a visual index of everything you've shipped: a portfolio grid, a GitHub README table, an OG image, and a $1 square per project on Square Town.

Twelve ways to show off a pile of side projects: a favicon grid, a graveyard page, a changelog feed, a $1 square each on Square Town, a Now page, llms.txt and more.

The Throne is Square Town's 4×4 gold centre tile: one owner, $100 intro price, doubles on every eviction. How it works, why it prices itself, how it compares.

Evicted on Square Town? The exact sequence — someone pays double, the live feed announces it, your deed shows EVICTED, no refund — and your three options next.

A favicon wall is a shared grid where each cell shows one website's favicon and links to it. Definition, history, pixel-wall contrast, and how Square Town's works.

Why favicon squares beat 10×10 pixel blocks: legible at 16px, zero design work, one square per domain, no dead images — plus the honest downside.

Square Town charges $1 per 1×1 square, one-time, no sizes, no uploads. The design reasoning, and how it compares to MDH's $100 minimum and SaaSBoard's $10/mo.

How Square Town's 3D favicon wall works: three.js, an orthographic camera, towers whose height is click count, hash-seeded trees and lakes, and a sun on local time.