Square Town vs 3MPixel: $1 favicon squares or 10¢ pixels?
One sells three million pixels with a resale market and no game. The other sells one square per website for $1 and makes the wall itself the game.
3MPixel (3mpixel.com) is a 2000×1500 pixel canvas — three million pixels — sold from $0.10 per pixel with a minimum 10×10 block ($10), an uploaded image plus link on each block, and a marketplace to resell blocks. Square Town (square.pov.town) is a favicon wall where every square is 1×1, costs $1, and can be evicted for double. The difference: 3MPixel is a big, cheap-per-pixel Million Dollar Homepage with a resale market; Square Town is a small-unit, live, 3D wall with a game loop.
Square Town vs 3MPixel at a glance
| 3MPixel | Square Town | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $0.10 per pixel; minimum 10×10 block = $10 (as of August 2026) | $1 per square, one-time; Throne starts at $100 |
| What you place | An uploaded image with a link, on a 2000×1500 canvas | Your website's favicon, fetched from the URL you paste |
| How you pick a spot | Choose or reserve a block on the canvas | Click any empty cell in the unlocked area, or evict an occupied one |
| Ownership model | Buy a block; resell it on the marketplace | Hold the square until someone pays double what you paid |
| Can you lose your spot? | No — you can sell it, nobody can take it | Yes — evicted for double; the evictor's price doubles again |
| Game mechanics | Resale marketplace, reservations, leaderboard | Evictions, the Throne, 90-day kiss decay, ring unlocks at 70 % fill, Hall of Clowns |
| Live? | Not noted in our August 2026 check | Yes — WebSockets push every buy, eviction, kiss and unlock |
| 3D? | No | Yes — tilt into a three.js scene where tower height = clicks |
| Analytics | Leaderboard | Views, clicks and kisses per deed; $5 unlocks per-day charts |
| Accounts | Implied by the marketplace and reservations (details not noted in our check) | None — a secret deed URL is the only proof |
| Payment | Not noted in our August 2026 check | Stripe (card) |
| Audience | Advertisers and speculators who want a bigger image and a resale option | Indie developers, small sites, anyone with a URL and $1 |
| Launched | 2025 | August 2026 |
| Status as of Aug 2026 | Active; our check showed 0 blocks sold | Active, central 16×16 live at launch, grows to 1024×1024 |
What 3MPixel does well
Cheaper per pixel and much more of it. Ten cents a pixel against a 2000×1500 canvas is three million pixels — three times the original Million Dollar Homepage, at a tenth of its per-pixel price. A 10×10 block is $10 and shows a real image. Square Town's whole live area at launch is 16×16 cells, and a "block" is a single 16 px favicon for $1.
You upload your own image. Logo, banner, QR code, whatever fits your block. Square Town gives you no upload: it fetches the favicon your site serves and shows that.
A resale marketplace. Buy a block, list it, sell it. That makes a 3MPixel block an asset you can exit, at least in principle. Square Town has no marketplace: a square is $1 to buy, can be taken from you for double, and there is no way to sell it — the money goes to the wall, not to you.
Reservations. You can hold a block before committing, which is friendlier than Square Town's click-and-pay.
Nobody can take your block. No evictions, no decay. If you want permanence with no fighting, that is the correct choice, and 3MPixel gives it to you.
What Square Town does differently
The unit is a website. Every square on square.pov.town is a favicon fetched from a URL, and every click on it goes to that site and is counted. There is nothing to design, upload or resize; the 16 px favicon your site already has is the ad.
Location is the game. Only the central 16×16 is live at launch, and it grows by 8 cells each way every time it is 70 % full, up to 1024×1024. Squares near the centre are scarce; the Throne (the 4×4 middle) starts at $100 and doubles on every eviction. 3MPixel opens all three million pixels at once, so no spot is scarce until they sell.
Evictions instead of resale. On Square Town, anyone can take your square for double what you paid, and the next taker pays double that. There's no market because the wall is the market: the price of a contested square is its own history. See the economics of eviction.
Decay unless kissed. An icon nobody has kissed in 90 days fades to grayscale. Anyone can kiss any icon, free, by clicking it. That is how a wall built on one-time payments avoids the dead-links problem that static grids collect.
Live and 3D. Every buy, eviction, kiss and unlock is pushed to all open browsers over WebSockets. Tilt the wall and every favicon becomes a tower as tall as its click count. 3MPixel is a static canvas.
Analytics per square. Every deed shows views, clicks and kisses; $5 unlocks per-day charts. 3MPixel's leaderboard is a leaderboard.
No accounts. Paste a URL, click a cell, pay by card. Your proof of ownership is a secret deed URL. That is faster than a marketplace account, and riskier — lose the URL and it's gone.
Who should pick 3MPixel
- You want to show an actual image, larger than a favicon.
- You want a block nobody can take, and the option to resell it.
- You want a lot of pixels cheaply and don't need a game around them.
- You want to reserve first and pay later.
Who should pick Square Town
- You have a URL and want it on a live wall in under a minute, with zero design work.
- You want to know who clicked. Views, clicks and kisses per square; $5 for per-day charts. See pricing.
- You want scarcity and a centre worth holding, not three million identical pixels.
- You want the wall to stay alive: evictions, kisses, rings unlocking, towers growing with clicks. How it works is the whole rulebook.
- You'd rather spend $1 than $10 to find out whether a pixel wall sends anyone your way.
Can you use both?
Yes. They don't step on each other: 3MPixel is where a bigger image with a resale option lives; Square Town is where your favicon sits on a live map for $1. Neither is a backlink product — Square Town's clicks are counted redirects, not link equity — so treat both as visibility, not SEO. For the wider set, pixel advertising alternatives ranks the field, and Square Town vs the Million Dollar Homepage covers the site both are descended from.
FAQ
How much does 3MPixel cost?
As of August 2026, from $0.10 per pixel with a minimum 10×10 block, so $10 to start. Blocks can be resold on its marketplace.
How much does Square Town cost?
$1 per square, one-time, by card. The Throne in the centre starts at $100. Per-day analytics on a deed is a one-time $5. Evicting someone costs double what they paid.
Can I sell my Square Town square?
No. There is no marketplace and no resale. Squares change hands only by eviction — someone pays double what you paid — and that payment goes to the wall, not to you.
Can someone take my 3MPixel block?
Not according to what the site showed in August 2026: blocks are bought, held and resold, with no eviction mechanic. On Square Town, any square can be taken for double.
Which is bigger?
3MPixel: 2000×1500 = 3,000,000 pixels, all available from the start. Square Town's grid tops out at 1024×1024 = 1,048,576 squares, but only the central 16×16 is live at launch and it unlocks in rings as it fills.
Does either give a backlink?
Don't buy either for SEO. Square Town's clicks are counted 302 redirects through /go/:id, not link equity. Buy for visibility to the people who look at the wall.
Has 3MPixel sold many blocks?
When we checked in August 2026 the site showed 0 blocks sold. That may have changed; check the canvas.
Put your favicon on the wall
1 square = $1, one-time, no account. Paste a URL, pick a cell, done. Open the wall →