Square Town vs Milliboard: spatial wall or pay-to-rank list?

Two 2026 sites, one idea in common — pay to hold the top spot — and almost nothing else.

Milliboard (milliboard.com) is a pay-to-rank leaderboard: pay any amount, and the highest single payment holds #1 until someone outbids it by a cent. Square Town (square.pov.town) is a favicon wall: $1 buys one 1×1 square on a shared, live, 3D grid, and you keep it until someone evicts you for double. The difference is a ranked list versus a map — Milliboard sells position in a queue, Square Town sells a spot you can point at.

At a glance#

Milliboard facts are as of August 2026 from our competitor snapshot; Square Town facts from the rulebook.

What Milliboard does well#

The bidding loop is pure. There is nothing to design and no spot to choose. You pay, you rank. Outbidding #1 by a cent is a joke everyone gets instantly, and the "Daily Throne" gives a reason to check back once a day even if you never intend to spend more.

It has an ending. Milliboard freezes forever at $1,337,690 in total payments. That is a deliberate scarcity story: the board becomes a permanent record of who paid what, in what order. Nothing on Square Town ends — the wall just keeps unlocking rings until 1,048,576 squares are gone.

A hall of fame is a status product. Top-3 hall of fame means the biggest spenders get remembered even after they are knocked off. Square Town's boards (most clicked, most kissed) reward attention rather than spend, which is a different kind of status.

Any amount works. You can put in less than a dollar just to be on the list. On Square Town the floor is $1 and the entry price never goes lower.

What Square Town does differently#

Space, not rank. On Square Town you own a specific cell with an x/y position — corner, edge, next to a friend, one ring out from the Throne. Location is the game. On Milliboard the only position that means anything is #1, and everything below it is a sorted list.

Favicon from a URL. You paste a URL, Square Town fetches the favicon via Google's favicon service, done. There is no logo upload and no name field. Sites without a favicon get a clown emoji and a place in the Hall of Clowns until they fix it.

Eviction is priced by the victim, not the market. Milliboard's #1 goes to whoever bids a cent more. On Square Town, taking any square costs exactly double what its owner paid — $1 becomes $2, becomes $4 — so a cheap square stays cheap to steal and a contested one prices itself out of reach. The Throne starts at $100 and doubles on every eviction.

Decay. An icon nobody has kissed for 90 days fades to grayscale. Anyone can kiss any icon, free. Milliboard has no decay: once your payment is on the list, it sits there until the freeze.

Live and 3D. Every purchase, eviction, kiss and ring unlock is pushed to all open browsers over WebSockets. Ctrl+drag tilts the wall into 3D, where each favicon is a tower whose height is its click count. Milliboard is a page you reload.

Analytics per square. Your deed page shows views, clicks and kisses; $5 one-time unlocks per-day charts. This is the part owners actually use after the novelty wears off.

Who should pick Milliboard#

• You want to make a single, loud statement — "I paid the most" — and do not care where on a page you appear.
• You like a product with a finish line. Being on the board at freeze time is the prize.
• You have a logo and a name to show, and you want them next to a rank number.
• You want to spend less than $1 just to appear.

Who should pick Square Town#

• You have one or more URLs and want each visible for $1, no design work, no subscription. See Square Town for indie hackers: a $1 square for every side project.
• You care about where you are: adjacency, corners, distance from the Throne, being in the first ring.
• You want a reason to come back — evictions in the live feed, kisses, unlocks — rather than a number that only moves when someone pays.
• You want per-square analytics that survive without an account.

Can you use both?#

Yes, and it costs $1 to find out. Milliboard is a one-shot bid for attention; Square Town is a $1 square you hold, forever* (until someone evicts you). Nothing about either excludes the other. If you are ranking pay-to-hold-the-top products, our list is at Every pixel wall you can still buy a spot on, ranked (August 2026); if you want Milliboard's competitors specifically, see The best Milliboard alternatives in 2026 (pay-to-rank and king-of-the-hill).

FAQ#

Is Milliboard a pixel wall?#

No. Milliboard is a pay-to-rank leaderboard: a sorted list where the highest single payment holds #1 and can be outbid by one cent. There is no grid, no square to own and no favicon.

What does Square Town cost compared with Milliboard?#

Square Town is $1 per 1×1 square, one-time, plus an optional $5 one-time analytics unlock per deed. Milliboard accepts any amount; your rank is determined by how much you paid in a single payment.

Can I lose my place on both?#

Yes. On Milliboard, anyone paying one cent more than the current #1 takes it. On Square Town, anyone can evict you by paying double what you paid; the Throne starts at $100 and doubles with every eviction.

Does Milliboard end?#

Yes. Milliboard freezes forever once total payments reach $1,337,690, as of August 2026. Square Town does not end; the live area grows by 8 cells in every direction each time it is 70 % full, up to 1024×1024 squares.

Do I get a backlink from either?#

Square Town does not sell backlinks or SEO value: the wall is a WebGL canvas and clicks go through a counted redirect. Buy a square for visibility, the game and the analytics, not for link equity. We can't speak for Milliboard's markup.

Which one is live?#

Square Town pushes every buy, eviction, kiss and unlock to every open browser over WebSockets. Milliboard's leaderboard reflects new payments, but it is a list you load, not a scene you watch.