The 12 best Million Dollar Homepage alternatives in 2026

The original wall is a museum. These are the ones still taking money, ranked, with what each costs and what you actually get.

The best Million Dollar Homepage alternatives in 2026 are Square Town ($1 favicon squares with evictions and a live 3D wall), The Forever Wall ($1 per pixel, forever), Million Squares Project ($1 per square), Link for a Dollar ($1 per square), SaaSBoard (free logo tile), Milliboard (pay any amount to rank) and six more below. All prices are as of August 2026.

Why you can't buy a spot on the Million Dollar Homepage#

The Million Dollar Homepage (milliondollarhomepage.com) launched in 2005 and sold pixels at $1 each in 10×10 blocks, so the minimum buy was $100. It sold out in five months for $1.04 million; the last 1,000 pixels went at auction for $38,100. It has been a frozen archive ever since — nothing is for sale, nothing changes, and roughly 40 % of its links are dead as of August 2026. It was made by Alex Tew, then a student, which is part of why it charmed people (general knowledge, not from our snapshot).

So "alternatives" means two things: sites that copy the mechanic (buy a spot on a shared wall, link out) and sites that solve the same problem (be visible to a niche audience for very little money) differently. Our list has both. We built one of them, Square Town, and we say so where it matters. For a fuller history see The Million Dollar Homepage, 21 years later; for every clone we could find, see the big list of clones.

The 12 alternatives at a glance#

The list#

1. Square Town — $1 favicon squares on a live 3D wall. Square Town (square.pov.town) is a favicon wall: paste a URL, Square Town fetches the favicon, you click an empty cell, you pay $1 through Stripe. No accounts, no uploads, every square is 1×1. What makes it different from a static clone is the game loop: anyone can evict you by paying double what you paid; the 4×4 centre is a single Throne (intro price $100, doubling every eviction); icons nobody has kissed for 90 days fade to grayscale until someone kisses them (free); only the central 16×16 is live at launch and rings unlock each time the area is 70 % full, up to 1,048,576 squares. Everything is pushed live over WebSockets, and tilting the wall shows each favicon as a tower whose height is its click count. Pros: cheapest possible entry, zero design work, something to come back for, per-square view/click/kiss counts on your deed ($5 one-time for per-day charts). Cons: you can be evicted (for double); no accounts means losing your deed URL loses your proof; it launched in August 2026, so it's young; a favicon is small, and if your site has none you land in the Hall of Clowns. Not an SEO product — clicks are redirects, not link equity. Details on pricing.

2. The Forever Wall — the straight "$1 a pixel, forever" clone. As of August 2026 it sells one pixel for $1 on a 1,000,000-pixel wall; you claim, customise and keep it permanently. Pros: the exact MDH mental model with the original price and no minimum block, and it's live and active. Cons: you upload an image and buy pixels, so a legible logo costs more than $1; no eviction, decay, live feed or 3D — nothing changes once you've bought. Compare directly in Square Town vs The Forever Wall.

3. Million Squares Project — a 1000×1000 square grid at $1 a square. Stripe checkout, drag-select, image or GIF per block, "forever", plus a Hall of Founders. It is tied to a $MSP memecoin. Pros: nearly identical premise to Square Town's price point with GIF support and drag-select for bigger blocks. Cons: 17 of 1,000,000 squares sold as of August 2026, so the wall is empty; static ownership; the memecoin angle will put some site owners off.

4. Link for a Dollar — permanent $1 squares with categories. $1 per square, $4 for 2×2, $10 for 10 squares, $25 for 5×5; you place a logo or initials, a brand name and a link on a 1,000,000-square public grid with category browsing, a click-count leaderboard and email-domain verification. Pros: cheap, permanent, verified, and the click leaderboard is a nice touch. Cons: 5 of 1,000,000 claimed as of August 2026 — near-empty; no favicon auto-fetch; nothing ever moves. See Square Town vs Link for a Dollar.

5. SaaSBoard — the free one. A 100×100 zoomable canvas where a 1×1 logo tile is free; bigger blocks cost $10 per tile per month or $100 per tile per year via Stripe. You drag to pick position and size, upload a logo, add a description and link. About 111 listings as of August 2026. Pros: free is free, and it's the closest product analogue to a favicon wall for SaaS. Cons: subscription upsell for anything bigger than 1×1; uploaded logo, not favicon; no eviction, throne, decay or 3D. See Square Town vs SaaSBoard.

6. Milliboard — pay-to-rank, not pay-to-place. Pay any amount; the highest single payment holds #1 until someone outbids it by a cent; there's a Daily Throne and a top-3 hall of fame; the board freezes forever at $1,337,690 in total payments. Pros: the purest competitive loop on this list, and any budget gets you on it. Cons: it's a ranked list, not a spatial wall — no square you can point at, no favicons, no decay, and it ends on purpose. See Square Town vs Milliboard.

7. The Logo Wall — $5 logo sticker with a profile page. $5 one-time ($10 featured) gets a logo, a profile page and (their pitch) a dofollow backlink, with categories and "most viewed / most loved" rankings; ~107 logos as of August 2026. Pros: cheap, permanent, and you get a page of your own. Cons: a categorised list without positional scarcity, eviction or decay; the SEO pitch is the product, so treat it as a directory listing rather than a wall.

8. The SaaS Wall — draw your own pixel logo, from 5 cents a block. 100-pixel blocks in price bands that start at $0.05 per block and rise towards $1 per block as the wall fills; a built-in editor for pixel-art logos; SaaS products only; 123 blocks as of August 2026. Pros: possibly the cheapest paid entry anywhere, and the hand-drawn logos give it character. Cons: you have to draw the logo; permanent, no eviction, SaaS-only.

9. Project Pixel — classic canvas with a live leaderboard. $1 per pixel, drag-select, no account needed, image or pixel art plus link per block, on a 1,000,000-pixel canvas with a live leaderboard of the biggest owners; ~310 pixels sold as of August 2026. Pros: no-account checkout and a leaderboard to climb. Cons: a legible image needs many pixels; no eviction, decay or favicon auto-fetch.

10. The Pixel Orbit — the whole canvas re-sorts around whoever paid most. Pay-what-you-buy (a 5×5 is $2.50); the highest total payer holds the exact centre and everything else orbits outward by cumulative spend; you can be outbid; there's a leaderboard. Pros: the closest thing to Square Town's Throne, and position genuinely means something. Cons: position is by cumulative spend, not by choice — you can't pick a spot; no per-square eviction or decay.

11. 3MPixel — bigger, cheaper per pixel, marketplace-y. $0.10 per pixel with a 10×10 minimum ($10) on a 2000×1500 canvas, with a resale marketplace, reservations and a leaderboard. Pros: three million pixels and a resale angle if you think spots will appreciate. Cons: 0 sold as of August 2026; upload-an-image, no favicon, no game loop. See Square Town vs 3MPixel.

12. Own the Void — $1 cells on a 1,000,000 × 1,000,000 grid. $1 per cell, one-time via Stripe, for a coloured cell with up to 32 characters of text and an optional link, on an infinite grid of a trillion cells. Pros: same $1 price and no minimum; you can write words. Cons: infinite means no scarcity and no location worth fighting over; text rather than a logo; no eviction or decay. See Square Town vs Own the Void.

Also considered#

Not on the list because they're crypto-only, art-only or nearly identical to something above (all as of August 2026): myPixelit ($1/pixel, min 5, real-time paint canvas, 56 of 1M sold), TileWorld ($0.99 per tile on a world map), InternetTiles ($2/tile, rising, 3,140 of 40,000 claimed), The Million Dollar Homepage 2 (zone pricing $1–$2/px, 0 sold), Tocka (painted pixels; takeovers raise the price by 1¢), earth.tattoo (pixel art on a 3D globe, crypto only, outbid at $1/$2/$4/$8) and One Million Pixels (.ai) ($1/pixel with a free tier, aimed at AI agents). The whole field, ranked, is in Every pixel wall you can still buy a spot on.

How to choose#

• You want the MDH feeling for a dollar: The Forever Wall or Million Squares Project.
• You want a spot that stays interesting: Square Town (evictions, Throne, decay) or Milliboard (outbid wars). Both can take your spot away; that's the point.
• You want free: SaaSBoard's 1×1 tile.
• You want a profile page and a directory listing: The Logo Wall.
• You want the centre: The Pixel Orbit (cumulative spend) or Square Town's Throne ($100 intro, doubles per eviction).

None of these will send meaningful traffic on their own. Buy a spot because it's cheap, because you like the wall, and because a niche audience of makers browses it. Anyone promising ranking benefits from a pixel wall is selling something else. See also Is buying pixels worth it in 2026?.

FAQ#

Is the Million Dollar Homepage still selling pixels?#

No. It sold out in 2006 after five months, for $1.04 million, and has been a frozen archive since. Nothing on it is for sale, and roughly 40 % of its links were dead as of August 2026.

What is the cheapest Million Dollar Homepage alternative?#

SaaSBoard's 1×1 tile is free, and The SaaS Wall starts at $0.05 per block. Among $1 options, Square Town, The Forever Wall, Million Squares Project, Link for a Dollar, Project Pixel and Own the Void all sell a unit for $1 as of August 2026.

Which alternative is most like the original?#

The Forever Wall ($1 = 1 pixel, forever) and Million Squares Project ($1 per square on a 1000×1000 grid) copy the original most faithfully. Both are static: buy once, nothing changes.

Do pixel walls help SEO?#

Treat them as visibility, not link equity. Some walls advertise dofollow links (The Logo Wall, The Startup Board); Square Town does not — outbound clicks are redirects through /go/:id and are counted, not passed as PageRank.

What does Square Town do that the Million Dollar Homepage didn't?#

Square Town sells favicons instead of pixels (no design work), lets anyone evict a square for double, has one Throne in the centre that doubles per eviction, fades icons that go 90 days without a kiss, unlocks the wall in rings at 70 % fill, and pushes every event live. Ownership is a secret deed URL, no account.

Can I lose a square I bought on Square Town?#

Yes, if someone pays double what you paid. Your eviction is announced in the live feed, and the next evictor pays double their price. Un-kissed icons fade but stay owned.