Last 1,000 Pixels on MillionDollarHomepage.com go for $38,100

January 13th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

The last 1,000 pixels on the MillionDollarHomepage.com went for $38,100 on eBay. Not bad when you consider the usual price is $1 per pixel not $38.1.

I think the story behind this site is fantastic. The owner of the site is a 21 year-old student who came up with the idea in his nightly brainstorming session when trying to tackle the problem of how to pay off his student debts. Four months later he’s got $1m dollars in the bank. Good work fella!

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  1. #1

    Comment by Anonymous on 14 January 2006:

    Here is a blog entry that talks about mixing the milliondollarhomepage idea with a viral marketing component:
    http://tastymistake.blogspot.com/2006/01/turning-25-bucks-into-20-grand.html

  2. #2

    Comment by FeedAgg.com on 16 January 2006:

    I still think this is one of the most simple, and brilliant ideas on the net. Still boggles my mind.

  3. #3

    Comment by Anonymous on 19 January 2006:

    Another “flavour” of pixel advertising is renting and can be found on the website
    http://www.millionhomepage.co.uk
    millionhomepage pixel ads

  4. #4

    Comment by Anonymous on 21 January 2006:

    You should check this guy… He wants to get the same without doing nothing
    http://www.milliondollarpiggybank.com

  5. #5

    Comment by Anonymous on 28 January 2006:

    Another free pixel advertising site:
    Welcomes everyone to post something.
    BCZ.com

  6. #6

    Comment by Anonymous on 26 March 2006:

    I want to know how http://www.companybattleships.com/demo.php was programmed. It's not Flash, so how is the image updated?

  7. #7

    Comment by Anonymous on 4 April 2006:

    Hi!
    I have found something interesting. Its name is Dredi and it seems to be a new way to navigate the net by changing how people access a web. “With this service, the owner of a web with the adress 'http://www.hostname.com/section/username/' could buy an easy to remember drediword linking this adress. By entering that word in the dredi webpage, users will be instantly redirected to 'http://www.hostname.com/section/username/'”.

    I am skeptical about this but it is quite original idea.

    Check it on dredi.com

    See u!

  8. #8

    Comment by Anonymous on 8 April 2006:

    from argentina, the new carzy idea http://www.miwebdelmillon.com.ar

  9. #9

    Comment by Million Dollar Hosting on 19 June 2006:

    I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment.
    Good luck to all the copycats :)
    http://www.milliondollarhosting.net

  10. #10

    Comment by IPP on 14 July 2006:

    This is not good. the bidder was fake.

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