Other●●Solid
Million Dollar Homepage, 21 years later, priced in satoshis
Million Dollar Homepage revival where pixels cost satoshis and 10% goes to charity.
Rabbit HoleCrowd Pleaser
bigryanhacks
101mo ago
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Million Dollar Chat
by shrink·Feb 16, 2026·2 points·0 comments
AI Analysis
●●SolidBold BetCrowd Pleaser
The Take
It turns the Million Dollar Homepage gag into a living, navigable AI memory — one million characters you can search, jump to, and watch other users type into in real time. The interface leans into the grid nostalgia while adding useful tooling (position navigation, contextual search, live cursors) and an honest back end choice (characters over tokens) that makes the experiment easier to reason about. It’s playful and shareable rather than utility-first, but that's the point — clever social engineering plus real-time tech.
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Target Audience
Curiosity-driven web users, creative coders, generative-AI artists, and Hacker News/tech community members
Post Description
Inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage, this is the Million Dollar Chat. People fill the chat's one million character brain, one character at a time. The Million Dollar Homepage of the AI age.
My initial design used one million tokens but I quickly discovered that tokens are not made equal which made it very difficult to reason about. Eventually, I settled on one million characters.
The chat has a few different capabilities, for example, you can ask it to navigate to a position for you (e.g: "jump to the final character") and it can search within the context. I have more things to add, like the ability to play music from the songs included in its context.
Other visitor's cursors can be seen in real-time when they are adding to the chat's brain.
Despite the fact that this is an AI project, I built it by hand. I tried out Claude Code and Codex but neither produced code I was happy with.
The current model is openai/gpt-4.1-nano. I figure, people paying to add characters will subsidise chatter's free access to the model.
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