onedollarpixel

Grid rules

These are the rules for this grid. They are short on purpose: you should be able to answer "can I buy pixels for this?" in thirty seconds.

More questions sit on the FAQ.

What this grid is

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This board is a promotional discovery platform where companies purchase advertising placement. Projects are ordered based on their total promotional spend. Every purchase provides ongoing leaderboard placement and does not represent gambling, wagering, or an entry fee for a prize.

Every paid link is marked sponsored, which is the disclosure search engines require for paid placement.

What a pixel costs

  • The grid is 1000 by 1000 pixels.
  • One pixel costs one dollar.
  • Pixels are sold in blocks of 10 by 10. One block is 100 pixels, so one block costs $100.
  • You select a rectangle of whole blocks. The smallest purchase is one block.
  • The largest single purchase is 400 blocks — 200 by 200 pixels, $40,000. Buy again if you want more.

Your pixels are permanent

  • There is no expiry, no renewal, and no subscription.
  • Nobody can outbid you, buy you out, or take the space from you.
  • The only thing that removes your image is the moderation below, or a refund.

Buying

  1. Drag a rectangle on the grid. Taken blocks are refused as you drag, and the price updates as the rectangle grows.
  2. Give the address your pixels should link to, and upload your logo.
  3. Your area is reserved for 30 minutes while you pay. If you do not finish, the reservation ends and the blocks go back on sale. Nothing is charged.
  4. Pay once. Your image appears on the grid.

If two people select the same blocks in the same moment, the one who reserved them first keeps them. The other is told at once and is never charged.

Your image

  • PNG, JPEG or GIF. Up to 2 MB.
  • SVG is not accepted. An SVG is a document that can carry code, not a picture.
  • WebP is not accepted. Save it as a PNG and upload that.
  • An animated GIF is flattened to its first frame. Nothing on this grid moves.
  • Your image is resized to fit your area exactly. A logo the shape of your rectangle will look best.

What is refused

  • Chat and invite links. Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal and similar. A grid is a directory of destinations, and an invite is a door into a room nobody can see before walking in.
  • Sexual content. If it is porn, NSFW, or an adult platform, it does not belong here.
  • Link shorteners. Submit one and it is replaced by the URL it redirects to.
  • Query parameters are stripped. Affiliate, referral and tracking URLs will not work.

After you pay

  • Your image is on the grid, permanently.
  • Clicks go to the address you gave, with the grid's own utm_source added so you can see the traffic in your own analytics.
  • A completed payment is what claims the pixels. Nothing before it does.
  • Buying twice from the same address adds to one advertiser total on the advertisers page.

Moderation

The operator may hide any image. Payment does not buy immunity from the rules above.

Hiding is not refunding. A hidden image comes off the grid and the pixels stay yours; the space is not resold. If the operator refunds you instead, the money goes back and the pixels return to the grid for somebody else.

Anyone can report an image. A report does not hide anything — it puts the image in front of the operator, who decides.