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The Doubling Board
64 squares. Each one costs twice the last. That's all.
I built The Doubling Board as a joke about exponential growth, and then I built the checkout, so now it's a joke you can pay for.
How it works:
64 squares. Square n costs $2^(n−1). So $1, $2, $4 … $8,192 at square 14, half a million at square 20, and square 64 costs more money than exists.
Only one square is for sale at a time, the cheapest unsold one. Want a specific square? Buy every square between the one on sale and yours, in one go. That's the only way to skip the line.
A square is yours forever: a picture, up to 500 characters, a permanent URL like doublingboard.com/7. You can edit it whenever you like. No links, no ads. It's a trophy, not a billboard.
Some things I think are fun about it:
The ledger. Everyone can see who paid what. The person who bought square 13 for $4,096 is going to feel very differently about it than the person who paid $1.
The counter on the homepage: "Humanity's progress toward owning the whole board: 0.00000000000000068%".
At some point the only sensible move is to stop, and nobody can tell exactly where that is.
Full disclosure: I'm a solo dev in Argentina and I built this as a joke, but I also have some debt I'm digging out of, so if anyone buys square 3 for $4 I'll be genuinely, unreasonably happy.
Happy to answer anything. And no, I won't tell you who I think buys square 20.
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About The Doubling Board on Product Hunt
“64 squares. Each one costs twice the last. That's all.”
The Doubling Board was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. 64 squares. Square 1 cost $1. Square 64 costs $9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Buy one and it's yours forever.
The Doubling Board was featured in Web App (124.5k followers), Funny (11.5k followers) and Art (20.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 48.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted The Doubling Board?
The Doubling Board was hunted by Nicolas Passaglia. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Nicolas Passaglia
Hi PH 👋
I built The Doubling Board as a joke about exponential growth, and then I built the checkout, so now it's a joke you can pay for.
How it works:
64 squares. Square n costs $2^(n−1). So $1, $2, $4 … $8,192 at square 14, half a million at square 20, and square 64 costs more money than exists.
Only one square is for sale at a time, the cheapest unsold one. Want a specific square? Buy every square between the one on sale and yours, in one go. That's the only way to skip the line.
A square is yours forever: a picture, up to 500 characters, a permanent URL like doublingboard.com/7. You can edit it whenever you like. No links, no ads. It's a trophy, not a billboard.
Some things I think are fun about it:
The ledger. Everyone can see who paid what. The person who bought square 13 for $4,096 is going to feel very differently about it than the person who paid $1.
The counter on the homepage: "Humanity's progress toward owning the whole board: 0.00000000000000068%".
At some point the only sensible move is to stop, and nobody can tell exactly where that is.
Full disclosure: I'm a solo dev in Argentina and I built this as a joke, but I also have some debt I'm digging out of, so if anyone buys square 3 for $4 I'll be genuinely, unreasonably happy.
Happy to answer anything. And no, I won't tell you who I think buys square 20.