Square Town

Square Town is a live, 3D favicon wall at square.pov.town. Paste a URL, pick any empty cell, pay $1 once — and your site’s favicon lives there. No accounts, no uploads, no subscriptions.

The rules are the game. Anyone can evict a square by paying double what its owner paid. The 4×4 Throne in the middle starts at $100 and doubles with every eviction. Icons nobody has kissed for 90 days fade to grayscale — and anyone can kiss any icon, for free. The wall only grows (16×16 → 32×32 → … → 1024×1024) when the live area is 70 % full.

It’s a town, not a grid. Tilt into 3D and every favicon becomes a tower whose height is its click count, tinted with the icon’s own colours. Empty cells grow trees and pool into lakes, the sun follows your local time, and windows light up one by one after dark. A little director runs the town’s life: birds, a hot-air balloon, a cat, ducks, a very slow tortoise, a delivery van after every purchase, rain and rainbows that mirror the real weather where you are, fireworks after dark — and rarer visitors. The field guide lists all of them. Everything happens live, on every open browser, over WebSockets.

Built by one developer on Cloudflare’s free tier: a single Worker, D1, one Durable Object, three.js in the browser, Stripe Checkout for payments.