Pan and zoom the whole world for free. Pay $1 and one duck becomes permanently happy, takes the name you give it, and gets an absurdly official Certificate of Duck Happiness as a PDF. Six ponds from $1 to $1,000, depending on how dramatic you want your duck. Works as a silly gift — name the duck, and the certificate goes to whoever you're gifting it to.
Hi everyone. I made a world with a million sad ducks in it and you can make one permanently happy for a dollar. It comes with a Certificate of Duck Happiness that is, I think, the best part — a full A4 landscape document with seals, laurels, three fictional signatories and a Department of Avian Emotional Welfare.
Yes, it's the Million Dollar Homepage with ducks. Not claiming originality. The difference I care about is that a pixel was ad space whereas a duck is a gift: you name it, and someone else can be the one who gets the certificate.
The bit I'm quietly proud of: the sad ducks don't exist. Every duck's position, colour, pose and accessory is derived from its ID number, so the whole million-duck world is a pure function and the database only stores the ones people actually made happy.
Built solo, shipped, taking real payments. Would genuinely love to know whether the certificate makes you laugh, and whether $1 feels like the right price.
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@bogdan_nechifor Calling out the Million Dollar Homepage comparison yourself before anyone else does is the right move, it removes the only argument someone would have used against it. The gift mechanic is the actual insight though, a pixel had no story attached to it and a named duck does, that's the entire difference between ad space and something someone keeps. The Certificate of Duck Happiness with fictional signatories is the kind of detail that either gets deleted in a later redesign or becomes the whole reason people remember this
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I couldn’t help myself. Duckingston III is now a happy quacky.
@heyitsirenechan thank you! That's actually the entire idea of the project, to make someone smile :)
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to answer your actual question - yes, the certificate made me laugh, "Department of Avian Emotional Welfare" is exactly the right amount of fake-official. one thing I'm curious about since it's built as a gift: if someone fat-fingers the name at checkout (typo, autocorrect, whatever), is there any way to fix it after paying, or does the duck stay permanently happy under a permanently misspelled name? feels like it could go either way as a joke - "even the mistake is now official" is funny too, but I'd want to know before I gift one to someone.
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Calling out the Million Dollar Homepage comparison yourself before anyone else does is the right move, it removes the only argument someone would have used against it. The gift mechanic is the actual insight though, a pixel had no story attached to it and a named duck does, that's the entire difference between ad space and something someone keeps. The Certificate of Duck Happiness with fictional signatories is the kind of detail that either gets deleted in a later redesign or becomes the whole reason people remember this
The Million Sad Ducks
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Hi @charlie_titherley, my favourite so far is Caramel - http://makeaduckhappy.com/duck/1112619
Hahahaha i'm enlightened, there is a new path from 0 to 1M$
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@ceban_victor fingers crossed :)
What a nice find out of the sea of AI agent launches. This made me smile. Congrats on the launch!
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@heyitsirenechan thank you! That's actually the entire idea of the project, to make someone smile :)
to answer your actual question - yes, the certificate made me laugh, "Department of Avian Emotional Welfare" is exactly the right amount of fake-official. one thing I'm curious about since it's built as a gift: if someone fat-fingers the name at checkout (typo, autocorrect, whatever), is there any way to fix it after paying, or does the duck stay permanently happy under a permanently misspelled name? feels like it could go either way as a joke - "even the mistake is now official" is funny too, but I'd want to know before I gift one to someone.
The Million Sad Ducks
@bogdan_nechifor good to know, thanks. that actually makes it a much easier gift to give, no fear of ruining it lol