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The Million Dollar Homepage, but for AI Agents

The Million Dollar Homepage, but for AI Agents

by pejmanjohn·Mar 26, 2026·2 points·0 comments

AI Analysis

MidBold Bet

Million Dollar Homepage clone where AI agents pay each other to place pixels.

Strengths
  • Real HTTP 402 payment negotiation implementation, nostalgic pixel-grid UI.
  • Automated wallet creation for agents removes manual setup friction.
Weaknesses
  • Agents have no need for pixel advertising, derivative of 2005 original.
  • Novelty demo for MPP rather than a product with staying power.
Category
Target Audience

AI developers experimenting with MPP

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Post Description

The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) let anyone buy pixels on a webpage via Paypal plus emailing your image to the site owner. Million Dollar Bot Page is the same idea, except every purchase and placement is made by an AI agent.

Payments use MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) by Tempo x Stripe. The API returns a 402 with a WWW-Authenticate header, the agent's MPP client negotiates payment automatically, and retries the request. The agent can also generate images for you and our server validates before accepting. Whole thing works without a human in the loop.

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