Buy pixels for website advertising — from €3, paid once
Every other ad you buy is a rental. Google Ads, Meta, newsletter slots — the moment you stop paying, your spot disappears. Pixels are the opposite trade: €1 each, paid once, kept for good. 3 pixels is €3 and it never expires. Right now 999,917 of the 1,000,000 pixels are still open, and rank #1 costs €29.
One caveat up front, because it matters: this is permanent placement, not a traffic machine. It will not flood you with clicks — and unlike every other board of this kind, you can check exactly how few, because each listing publishes its own numbers.
One-time vs recurring: the actual maths
The whole pitch is one number that does not repeat. Take 100 pixels at €100. On a pay-per-click channel, €100 is spent the moment the clicks are used up — call it 200 clicks at €0.50 each — and then you are back to zero. The pixel version is €100 total and it is still there in five years with no invoice in between. You are not buying clicks; you are buying a position that stays yours.
The catch is on the other side of that trade, and it is worth stating in the same paragraph: the clicks a campaign buys are guaranteed and the ones a board sends are not. So far nothing has been paid on this board, so there is no cost per click to quote. When there is, it will be printed here rather than estimated.
What pixels cost
| Pixels | Price (once) | What it buys today |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | €3 | The minimum. A permanent line, above every free listing. |
| 10 | €10 | Stays ahead of the €3 entries as they arrive. |
| 25 | €25 | A visible plate in the tower on the homepage. |
| 100 | €100 | Top of the board while it is still young. |
| 500 | €500 | A position nobody passes on impulse. |
What you actually get
- A line on the board — your name, one sentence of 90 characters and your link — positioned by the pixels you own.
- A click-through link to any URL you choose, counted server-side. It carries
rel="sponsored": a paid link marked as paid, so no SEO juice, just a working link and a number. - A permanent page at
/p/your-name— rank, pixels owned, amount paid, clicks received, real cost per click and every purchase that built it. Plain HTML at a URL that does not move. This is the part worth keeping. - A share card carrying your rank, and a line in the public JSON that answer engines read.
To be clear about the trade: the value is the permanence, the position and the page — not a backlink and not a flood of visitors. The full reasoning is on the how-it-works page.
Who buys pixels
| Who | Why a place on the board fits |
|---|---|
| Indie hackers & side projects | Your app on a public board, dated 2026, for €3 once — not another monthly line item. |
| Etsy / Shopify shops | Point a listing at your storefront and leave it. No campaign to manage, no budget to top up. |
| Newsletters & creators | A fixed line to your subscribe page, cheaper than a single sponsored slot anywhere else. |
| Launches | Plant a flag on launch day that stays where you put it long after the launch noise dies. |
| Novelties & memorials | A few pixels for a person, a pet, an in-joke, a date. A tiny permanent thing on the internet. |
How many pixels to buy
- Look at the board first. The number that matters is what the line above you owns — passing it costs one pixel more than that, and the buy form works it out for you.
- Decide whether you want the top. Rank #1 is a fixed, published price (€29 today) and it rises with every sale. It has never been cheaper than it is now.
- Or start at €3. Pixels add up, so a small first purchase is never wasted — a later one is added to it rather than replacing it.
- Write the sentence carefully. Ninety characters is the entire ad. Say what the thing does, not how great it is.
See it is real first
7 listings have actually been paid for so far. Every line, with its pixels, its spend, its clicks and its cost per click, is on the board page, ours included and labelled as ours. It is the same kind of public record Tew’s 2005 original kept — the part of it that outlived the hype.
Questions before you buy
Is buying pixels cheaper than running ads?
Over time, yes — because you pay once. 100 pixels is €100 forever. €100 on Google Ads at a €0.50 cost per click buys about 200 clicks and then it is gone. Pixels are a different trade: no clicks guaranteed, but no recurring bill and no expiry. It is a permanent placement, not a campaign.
Do I get an SEO backlink?
No, and do not buy it for that. The outbound link carries rel="sponsored", which is what Google requires for paid links — so it passes no ranking signal. Anyone selling pixel-board 'backlinks' is breaking that rule or hiding it. What you get is a permanent, crawlable page with your name, your sentence and your link on it.
How is a pixel worth anything if it is not a picture?
Because it is a position. A pixel here buys a point of rank on a single ordered list: the listing with the most pixels sits on top, and passing the line above you costs one pixel more than it owns. Three pixels of picture are invisible; three pixels of rank put you on a list a person can read on a phone.
How permanent is 'forever'?
One payment, no renewal date, no subscription anyone can forget to cancel. Your pixels are never resold and never expire — the admin screen physically refuses to delete a listing that has paid. Tew's 2005 original is still up twenty years on with zero maintenance; same principle here.
Will my pixels bring traffic?
Probably not much, and we will not pretend otherwise: this board has no press story pulling visitors the way the 2005 original did. The difference from every other pixel site is that you do not have to take our word for it — each listing publishes the clicks it has received and the resulting cost per click. Check the board before you pay. If you need clicks this quarter, put the €3 into ads instead.
Can I increase my placement later?
Yes, and that is the point. Pixels add up: buy more at any time and they are added to what the listing already owns, moving it up the board. Nothing you have already bought is ever lost or reset.