Frequently asked questions

The 1 Million Square Project is a 1000 by 1000 grid of one million squares that sell for one dollar each, where every square unlocks a real perk and moves a public Dream Meter of filmed life goals. It is the 2026 remake of the 2005 Million Dollar Homepage, built in public by indie hacker Jessyka, who posts every step on X as @jessyka_boat. Your square keeps your color, name, and link for a minimum of 10 years.

A square costs one dollar, and the price never changes. There are exactly 1,000,000 squares on the grid, so a full grid adds up to one million dollars. Buy one square for $1 or a thousand for $1,000, the math stays that simple.

You buy squares on the buy page: pick a quantity, choose your color, name, and link, then check out with a card. Your squares render on the grid after a quick human review, and you get an email the moment they go live. The whole flow takes a couple of minutes.

Yes, you can top up at any time, and every purchase counts toward one cumulative total. Buy 10 today and 40 next month and you stand at 50, which unlocks the Apps and SaaS Bundle. Your lifetime total is what counts, not any single order.

Under 100 squares you pick a color and get a hover card with your name and link, and at 100 squares or more you can upload an image or logo. Every upload is reviewed by a human before it renders. Art, apps, brands, and personal pages are all welcome.

No, we never crop your image by default. Square Fit always fits your whole image inside your region, and the leftover bands fill with Smart Fill, Blur Extend, or a color you pick. If you would rather go edge to edge, an optional fill and crop mode lets you drag the focal point yourself.

The buy page shows an actual size preview, one pixel per square, so you see exactly how your image reads on the grid before you pay. Simple shapes and high contrast win at small sizes, while fine detail gets mushy. And if a review lands on needs changes, resubmitting a sharper image is free.

Gambling, adult content, crypto pumps, malware, scams, trademark abuse, hate, and anything illegal are not allowed on the grid. The full prohibited list lives on the rules page. Everything honest and safe for a general audience sails through.

Yes, an image can be rejected, and a rejected purchase is refunded in full. A human reviews every submission before it renders, so prohibited content never touches the grid. Smaller problems get a needs changes email instead, with free resubmission for 30 days.

Human review happens within 24 hours of your submission, usually much faster. Nothing renders publicly until it is approved. You get an email the moment your squares go live.

Every square comes with permanent ownership: your color, your name, and your link on hover, plus your name on the Founders Wall. From 10 squares up, cumulative perks stack on top, from personal shout-outs to video reviews and beyond. One dollar buys a lasting place on the grid, not a temporary ad.

Yes, perks are cumulative on your total squares owned. Own 50 squares and you hold every perk from the 1, 10, 25, and 50 rungs at once. Climbing a rung never costs you the ladder below it.

The Apps and SaaS Bundle is the 50 square perk: a listing in the gettacotuesday.com directory, a video review of your app, and recurring shout-outs. It unlocks at 50 total squares owned, which is $50, cumulative across all your purchases. It is the rung built for people shipping software.

The biggest thing you can buy is The Landmark at 50,000 squares, and only 1 will ever exist. It includes a 250 by 200 marquee region covering 5 percent of the whole grid, title sponsorship on every milestone video, a scope-capped 4-week MVP built for you, and a year of integration. One rung down, the 10,000 square Patron tier with its custom micro-tool is capped at 5 buyers ever.

No, squares are not an investment, not equity, and not crowdfunding. They are a fun way to support the project and unlock perks, and every perk is a good or a service. If you are looking for returns, this is the wrong grid.

The 300,000 square goal is sealed, and it will be revealed when the meter reaches 150,000 squares. That is everything anyone knows, and the reveal happens on the Dream Meter for everyone at once. The other three goals are public: debt free at 100,000, a house at 500,000, and The Angel Indie Hacker at 1,000,000.

The grid stays online for a minimum of 10 years, in writing. Every link gets a health check each quarter so the grid never rots the way the 2005 original did. Your square is a place on the internet with your name on it, not a campaign that disappears.

The Million Dollar Homepage was a 2005 website where a student sold one million pixels of ad space for one dollar each to pay for his degree, and it sold out. The page became internet folklore, then froze in time, and roughly 40 percent of its links are dead today. The 1 Million Square Project is the 2026 rerun: same million, same dollar, plus perks, a live Dream Meter, and quarterly link health checks.