Other●Mid
Button does nothing. $1 makes it 1 pixel bigger, forever
Pay to make a useless button bigger. That's literally the entire product.
CozyCrowd Pleaser
hedvion
349d ago
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A site where people pay me money for no reason
by qane·Jun 22, 2026·8 points·13 comments
AI Analysis
○PassBold Bet
Donation page with a story, but no technical substance to evaluate.
Strengths
- •Clean landing page design with clear progress tracking toward the $1M goal
- •Transparent about where money goes and includes contributor leaderboard
Weaknesses
- •No technical innovation—any donation platform could replicate this exact concept
- •Show HN is for shipped code and tools, not fundraising experiments
Category
Target Audience
People who enjoy social experiments or want to donate without receiving anything
Similar To
GoFundMe · Ko-fi · Buy Me a Coffee
Post Description
built this as a joke. a friend bet me I couldn't make $1M off it by the end of the year.
Currently at $5,010. Amazing it even worked
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