One Million Weddings - Sell Project

THE IDEA One page. One million tiles. Each tile is one real wedding — click it and you get that couple's page: photo gallery, names, date, location, and credits for every business that worked on the day. Every business credited gets its own page in a vendor directory, cross-linked back to the weddings that named them. The grid is the marketing. The wedding pages and the vendor directory are the product. WHY IT ISN'T A MILLION DOLLAR HOMEPAGE COPY Million Dollar Homepage sold pixels to advertisers and died the moment it filled. This sells a keepsake to the couple, and the by-product is a cross-linked directory of wedding vendors that grows itself from what couples type. The pitch is a national archive, not a novelty: a 1958 registry-office photo sitting next to a barefoot beach wedding from last Saturday. SEE IT LIVE Landing page: https://million-9r4.pages.dev Walkthrough video (110 sec): https://million-9r4.pages.dev/demo.mp4 WHAT YOU GET onemillionweddings.com — exact-match .com on Cloudflare Registrar, at-cost renewal ($10.44/yr, never rises) A live, deployed landing page on Cloudflare Pages — free hosting, working email capture. Not a mockup Working prototype — single 122 KB HTML file, no dependencies, opens offline. All 1,000,000 squares genuinely exist via a deep-zoom canvas renderer. Pan, pinch and wheel zoom, 3× hover magnification, tile numbering 1–1,000,000 with a rarity classifier, full purchase flow, wedding pages with galleries and threaded guestbook, and a 17-category vendor directory filterable by country → city → category with self-serve vendor listing Two growth mechanics built and documented: a founding-100 free promo where free squares are drawn only from non-collectable numbers so the scarce ones stay sellable; and an optional vendor notification that emails a credited vendor exactly once, designed around NZ and Canadian anti-spam law Build specification — Postgres schema, a reserve-pay-confirm payment sequence that makes double-selling a square structurally impossible, photo and moderation pipeline, incremental image-pyramid regeneration, rights and takedown model, seven-milestone build order Cost model — 8-sheet spreadsheet on researched 2026 pricing. The full million tiles runs for under $1,600/month; one tile's 20-year hosting costs about 26 cents Decision record — every decision made, and every alternative rejected, with reasoning Logo files, SVG and PNG THE COMMERCIAL SHAPE, HONESTLY Two prices: $5 for a random square, $10 to pick your own. At a 60/40 split the average is $7, so $1,000,000 gross arrives at roughly 143,000 customers. Payment fees are 6–9%, infrastructure is negligible, gross margin per tile is around 93%. The hard part is distribution, and the model says so plainly: at about $6.55 net per customer, paid acquisition doesn't clear at current ad rates. This needs organic sharing to work. The spec treats per-tile Open Graph share images as commercially load-bearing rather than a nice-to-have. WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED No users, no revenue, no traffic, no email list, no backend, no company, no trademark. This is a domain, a working front-end, and the thinking. Also worth knowing up front: The prototype contains 68,000 procedurally generated demo couples so the wall isn't empty. They're placeholders, not real weddings, and must not ship to production One prototype shortcut doesn't survive production: the vendor directory finds a vendor's weddings by rescanning a country block, which only works because demo tiles come from a hash. Production needs the credits join table — it's in the spec Identity is unsolved. Nothing prevents someone claiming a wedding that isn't theirs. The spec costs out five approaches and recommends a stance Terms and privacy policy are required before launch and aren't written DOMAIN DELIVERY Registered 31 July 2026, so ICANN's 60-day rule blocks a registrar-to-registrar transfer until late September. If you have a Cloudflare account I can move it account-to-account from 10 August, which is the fast route. HOW THIS WORKS Happy to answer anything but it's pretty straight forward as you can see WHY I'M SELLING I built this to see whether the idea held up. It does — the prototype works, the economics work, I just can't afford the marketing for it which i did not think would cost as much. If the idea works then you are a milionare and take it from me, everyone loves to show off their wedding.