Square Town vs The Logo Wall: $1 square or $5 logo with a profile?
One is a tidy, categorised list of logos with profile pages and a backlink. The other is a map where position is scarce and someone can take your square. Different products; same buyer.
The Logo Wall (thelogowall.com) is a categorised directory of logo stickers where $5 one-time (or $10 featured) buys a logo, a profile page and a dofollow backlink, ranked by "most viewed" and "most loved". Square Town (square.pov.town) is a spatial favicon wall where $1 buys one square showing your site's icon at a position you pick, which anyone can take for double. The difference: The Logo Wall is a list you appear in; Square Town is a place you hold.
Square Town vs The Logo Wall at a glance
| The Logo Wall | Square Town | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5 one-time; $10 featured (as of August 2026) | $1 per square, one-time; Throne starts at $100 |
| What you place | An uploaded logo sticker plus a profile page and a dofollow backlink | Your website's favicon, fetched from the URL you paste; clicks are counted redirects, not backlinks |
| How you pick a spot | You don't — logos sit in categories and rankings | Click any empty cell in the unlocked area, or evict an occupied one |
| Ownership model | Permanent listing | Hold the square until someone pays double what you paid |
| Can you lose your spot? | No | Yes — evicted for double; the evictor's price doubles again |
| Game mechanics | "Most viewed" and "most loved" rankings, categories | 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 | View and love counts drive its rankings | Views, clicks and kisses per deed; $5 unlocks per-day charts |
| Accounts | Not noted in our August 2026 check | None — a secret deed URL is the only proof |
| Payment | Not noted in our August 2026 check | Stripe (card) |
| Audience | Indie makers and startups wanting a listing and a link | Indie developers, small sites, anyone with a URL and $1 |
| Launched | 2025 | August 2026 |
| Status as of Aug 2026 | Active; our check showed ~107 logos | Active, central 16×16 live at launch, grows to 1024×1024 |
What The Logo Wall does well
A profile page. Your $5 buys more than a sticker: a page about your product, on their domain, that people and crawlers can read. Square Town gives you a card that opens when someone clicks your square — name, views, clicks, kisses — and nothing more.
A dofollow backlink, advertised as such. The Logo Wall sells the link as part of the product. Square Town does not: clicks from the wall are 302 redirects through /go/:id, counted for your analytics, and Square Town makes no SEO claim at all. If a link is what you're buying, The Logo Wall is selling one and Square Town isn't.
Categories and rankings. Logos are grouped by category and ranked by most viewed and most loved, so a browser can find "analytics tools" without scanning a grid. Square Town's side panel has leaderboards (most clicked, most kissed) but no categories — the wall is spatial, not sorted.
Permanent, no fighting. Nobody can evict a Logo Wall listing and nothing fades. Pay once, stay listed.
Featured tier. $10 buys prominence. Square Town has no paid prominence except position — and the Throne, which is $100 and rising.
What Square Town does differently
$1, and you pick where. The unit on square.pov.town is one 1×1 square at $1, at the cell you click. Only the central 16×16 is live at launch; the wall grows by 8 cells each way every time it's 70 % full, up to 1024×1024. That makes position scarce and worth something, which a list can't offer — in a list, position is a sort order.
Nothing to upload. Paste a URL and Square Town fetches the favicon. No logo file, no profile text. If your site has no favicon you get a clown until you add one.
Evictions. Any square can be taken for double what its owner paid — $2, then $4, then $8. The evicted site is announced in the live feed. Painful and public, but it gives a square a market price and keeps the wall from freezing. See the economics of eviction.
The Throne. The 4×4 dead centre. Intro price $100, one owner, doubling on every eviction. Nothing on a directory works like this.
Kiss decay. An icon nobody has kissed in 90 days fades to grayscale. Anyone can kiss any icon, free. Dead projects fade; loved ones stay coloured. The Logo Wall's "most loved" is a count; Square Town's kisses are a count and a lifeline.
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, tinted with the icon's colour.
Per-square analytics with no account. Views, clicks and kisses on every deed; $5 one-time unlocks per-day charts. Ownership is a secret deed URL — no login, and no password reset either.
Who should pick The Logo Wall
- You want a profile page and a link on someone else's domain, and you're paying for exactly that.
- You want to be findable by category rather than by position.
- You want permanence and no game — nobody can take your listing.
- You'd pay $10 to be featured rather than fight for a spot.
Who should pick Square Town
- You want position: a square you chose, in a small live area, on a wall people watch.
- You want to pay $1 and be done — see pricing.
- You want zero setup: URL in, favicon out, no upload, no form.
- You have many sites: one favicon per square is a cheap way to showcase all your projects.
- You want the game — evictions, kisses, the Throne, ring unlocks — because it's what keeps a wall alive. See what a logo wall is for where Square Town sits in the genre.
Can you use both?
Yes, and it's a sensible pairing: a directory listing with a profile page for the link and the category browse, and a $1 square for a live, spatial presence with analytics. They don't compete for the same slot on your to-do list. Square Town has no accounts, so the second costs a deed URL to bookmark. If you're weighing the whole field of logo boards and pixel walls, pixel walls ranked 2026 and pixel advertising alternatives put them side by side.
FAQ
How much does The Logo Wall cost?
As of August 2026, $5 one-time for a logo sticker with a profile page and dofollow backlink, or $10 for a featured placement.
How much does Square Town cost?
$1 per square, one-time, by card. Evicting an occupied square costs double what its owner paid. The Throne starts at $100. Per-day analytics on a deed is a one-time $5.
Does Square Town give a backlink?
No. Clicks from the wall are counted 302 redirects through /go/:id, and Square Town makes no SEO or link-equity claim. The Logo Wall advertises a dofollow backlink; if that's what you want, buy that.
Can I choose where my logo appears on The Logo Wall?
Not positionally — logos are grouped by category and ranked by most viewed and most loved. On Square Town you click the exact cell you want.
Can I lose my listing on The Logo Wall?
No mechanic for that was shown as of August 2026: listings are permanent. On Square Town, any square can be evicted for double its last price, and un-kissed icons fade after 90 days.
Do I need to upload a logo to Square Town?
No. Square Town fetches your site's favicon from the URL you paste. If there isn't one, your square shows a clown until you add a favicon and press the recheck button.
Which is better for a new indie product?
If you want a link and a profile page, The Logo Wall. If you want a $1 spot on a live wall with analytics and a game around it, Square Town. Many people will do both for $6.
Put your favicon on the wall
1 square = $1, one-time, no account. Paste a URL, pick a cell, done. Open the wall →