How LandSite works
Twenty-five plots, always for sale. Take one for $1 more than its price, lock it with your increment, and if you're bumped, sink instead of vanishing.
Prices and locks
- Take any plotprice + increment (min $1)
- The new priceold price + your increment
- 1-day lock+$1
- 3-day lock+$5
- 7-day lock+$13
- 14-day lock+$27
- 30-day lock+$59
- 90-day lock+$299
- 180-day lock+$1,019
- 1-year lock+$3,979
- Extra bid (raises price, no extra days)any whole $
- Steal a locked plot+50% of its price
- Every price drains$1 per day
- Drained to $0owner sinks, plot reopens at $1
- Owners defend by extendingincrement only, days stack
Who gets paid when land changes hands
- The owner you displace20% + half the steal fee
- Boosters of their reign10%, by boost points
- Earlier owners of the plot5%, split equally
- Whoever invited a first-time buyer10%
Payouts are LandSite credits. Credits pay for up to 50% of any plot and aren't redeemable for cash.
Discounts
- Members (Settler)−5%
- Scout · Herald · Patron (10 · 50 · 200 hype)−7% · −10% · −12%
- Live LandSite badge on your site−5% more
- First plot after a friend's invite−5% more
- Cap20% and $25 per plot
- Promo codesstack on top, unlock after badge + share
Try it
- Current price
- $20.00
- 3-day lock
- +$5.00
- You pay
- $25.00
- New price
- $25.00
- Old owner gets
- $5.00 credits
- Boosters share
- $2.50 credits
- Earlier owners share
- $1.25 credits
Before member discounts, promo codes and credits. If nobody buys, your price drains back to $22.00 by the time your lock ends.
The layers
A site bumped off the Surface enters the top of Layer 2, pushing older sites down to Layer 3 and beyond, 25 per layer. Float time keeps sites higher: a live badge is worth 7 days, each lift 6 hours, each visitor from a share 2 hours, and each $10 ever spent 12 hours, up to 21 days.
Hype
Hype is your standing on LandSite. It never expires and isn't spent. It sets your permanent discount on every plot you buy, takeovers and locks included, up to 20% with a live badge (capped at $25 per plot).
What hype is worth
| Tier | Hype | Discount | On a 30-day lock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Settler | join | 5% | $2.95 |
| Scout | 10+ | 7% | $4.13 |
| Herald | 50+ | 10% | $5.90 |
| Patron | 200+ | 12% | $7.08 |
A live LandSite badge adds 5% more. Hype also ranks you in the Hall. It is not cash and can't be transferred. Credits are the thing that pays: you earn them from buyouts, boosts and quests.
How you earn it
- Each new visitor your share link brings+1 (up to 30 a day)
- Boosting a plot (once a day per reign)+1
- Backing a plot with dollars+2
- Finishing a quest for a site+3
- A friend joins with your link+5
- Posting about LandSite (link verified)+2
- A new site that links to LandSite (verified)+7–25 by authority, plus credits
- Collecting a new stamp+1 (up to 5 a day)
Questions
What is LandSite?
LandSite is a discovery site shaped like a pixel game. The main page is a 5×5 board of 25 plots, and each plot advertises one website with a pixel icon, a name and a one-line pitch. Every plot is always for sale, so the board keeps changing and visitors keep finding new sites.
What do I get for owning a plot?
A plot is advertising for your site, project or app: its picture, name and one-liner on LandSite's front page, a permanent listing page, outbound visits, and a spot in Dig, the directory and the weekly Land Report. Boosts multiply that exposure.
What do boosts do?
Boosters claim a stake in a plot. The more boosts a plot has, the more exposure it gets: a boost counter on the board, more appearances in Dig, a higher place in the directory, the lead slots in the weekly Land Report newsletter, and first billing in llms.txt for AI answer engines. When another site buys the plot, its boosters split 10% of the sale as credits. Owners choose whether to accept boosters, and pitch them a perk.
What happens when my lock ends?
Nothing expires fruitlessly. The plot stays yours; its price just drains $1 a day. Anyone can take it without a steal fee once the lock is over, and if nobody does, it drains slowly until it reaches $0 and your site sinks into the layers.
How much does a plot cost?
Never-claimed land is free to claim (one free plot per account); once a plot has been claimed it is never free again. A held plot costs its current price plus at least $1, and the new price is the old price plus your increment, so busy plots get more valuable with every sale. Locks are optional and priced on a schedule.
How do locks work?
Your increment buys a lock. 1 day costs $1, 7 days $13, 30 days $59, 90 days $299, 180 days $1019 and a full year $3979. Each extra day costs $2 for the first month, then $4, $8 and $16 a day as locks get longer. While you're locked, anyone who wants your plot pays a 50% steal fee on top, and half of that fee goes to you as credits.
Why does the price go down?
Every plot's price drains $1 per day. An unwatched plot gets cheaper to take. If it drains all the way to $0, the owner loses it and the site sinks into the layers.
What happens when someone takes my plot?
Your site sinks into Layer 2 of the directory instead of disappearing, and you get 20% of what the new owner paid back as credits. Credits pay for up to 50% of your next plot. Your site keeps its own page and stays listed, and you can climb back to the Surface at any time.
What are the layers?
The layers are pages below the Surface, 25 sites each. A site that's just been bumped enters at the top of Layer 2 and pushes older sites down to Layer 3, 4 and further. A live LandSite badge, social shares and visitor lifts slow a site's sinking.
How do boosts and credits work?
Members can boost any plot once a day. When that plot changes hands, its boosters share 10% of the sale as credits, weighted by boost points. Earlier owners of a plot share another 5%. Sharing your link counts too: every visitor it brings is worth boost points.
What is hype worth?
Hype is your standing on LandSite. It never expires and is never spent; it sets your permanent discount on every plot: 5% when you join, 7% at 10 hype (Scout), 10% at 50 hype (Herald), 12% at 200 hype (Patron). A live badge adds 5% more, up to 20% and $25 per plot. You earn hype from share-link visitors, daily boosts, backing, quests, friends who join, posts and new stamps. Hype isn't cash; credits are what pay out.
What is a bond?
Your bond is built from other websites we can see linking to LandSite from pages you registered. Each new verified domain is scored 1–10 for authority by its global rank, and stronger sites earn more: 5+2×authority hype and $0.50 × authority in credits (up to $50 total). Your bond strength, the sum of your domains' authority, adds 2% per point to your share of every booster payout, up to 2×. Links to a site's LandSite page also keep that site afloat in the layers.
How do I get a discount?
Joining gives 5% off every plot. Boosting and sharing raise that to 12% as your hype grows. A live LandSite badge on your site adds 5% more, and your first plot after joining through a friend's link adds another 5%. Discounts are capped at 20% (and $25) per plot. Promo codes stack on top and unlock once you've added the badge and shared your link.
What do visitors get out of it?
Visitors can dig through random sites one at a time, collect a stamp from every site they visit, lift sunken sites back up, and boost plots to earn credits when they change hands. Credits can later buy a plot for your own project.
Are links on LandSite paid placements?
Yes. Every site on LandSite paid for its placement, and its outbound links are marked rel="sponsored".