About this grid

This is a public advertising grid: one thousand pixels by one thousand pixels, a million in total, sold at one dollar each.

The model is direct. There are no buyer accounts and no subscription. Drag a rectangle, upload a logo, give a link, and complete one payment. The pixels are then yours.

Permanent means permanent

Nobody can outbid you, buy you out, or take your space when you stop paying, because there is nothing to stop paying. A rectangle sold is a rectangle gone, and the grid only ever has less of itself left.

That is the whole idea. Advertising is normally rented; this is bought.

Why it is sold in blocks

A single pixel at one dollar would be honest to the name and invisible on screen. Pixels are sold in blocks of ten by ten, so the smallest thing anybody owns is a hundred pixels — enough to be seen, and enough that a logo has somewhere to go.

Two people cannot buy the same pixels

They can certainly try, in the same second. When they do, the database decides between them and the one who did not get the space is never charged for it. If a payment somehow settles after the space has gone, it is refunded automatically and in full.

This is not a promise about care. It is a rule the database enforces on every write, including writes made by code nobody has written yet.

A purchase must show its value

Every area's link is counted, so an advertiser can compare what a rectangle cost with the traffic it produced. The advertisers page orders everybody by how much of the grid they own.

Nobody can buy their way past the rules

A paid rectangle is still a moderated one. The operator can hide any image that breaks the grid rules, and paying more does not change that. Hiding an image does not take the pixels back and does not put them on sale again — only a refund does that, and a refund returns the money too.

It is why the grid is worth being on: a wall anyone can put anything on is a wall nobody looks at.