I built a collaborative digital mural in one evening.. 100,000 strangers each pay $1.99 to upload one permanent photo tile
A few weeks ago I was laid off .. Instead of spiraling I decided to just build something, anything and see if people would pay for it
One night I sat down with Base44 and AI tools and built onetile.me.
The concept is like stupidly simple.. 100,000 spots on a digital mural. Each person pays $1.99 to upload one photo permanently. When all 100,000 tiles are claimed the mural is complete. Forever.
Stripe was live the same night.
The first real moment came from Hacker News. A guy challenged me in the comments — "why would I pay $1.99 for this?" I wrote him an honest answer. Then I built a new $9.99 tier with a permanent external link based on his feedback. He bought it at 4am from the UK.
Day 6. 11 tiles. $34 revenue. The mural is mostly empty and that's the whole problem and the whole point.
onetile.me — your spot is still available