Bought once. Farmed forever.
Paydirt is a permanent link directory drawn as 2,500 acres of farmland. A brand buys acres and improves them. Clicking a farm opens its logo, name, pitch and a real, dofollow link. Every farm also gets a permanent page.
Permanent
Land and improvements are never removed, downgraded, resold or reclaimed. The map is 50 × 50 acres and will never grow - that promise protects everyone who bought early. We keep the site online; if we ever couldn't, we'd publish the whole map as a static page first.
Two economies
Land is finite and cheap. It's the entry ticket, priced by ring. Development is infinite and expensive. Every acre improves forever on an escalating curve, and how developed you are decides how far out on the map you stay visible. The fully zoomed-out view shows only the most developed farms, with names - spend literally buys how far away people can see you.
Land
| Ring | Acres | Price per acre |
|---|---|---|
| Outer ring | 2,100 | $5 |
| Mid ring | 300 | $20 |
| Inner ring | 96 | $75 |
| The Centre | 4 | $250 |
You choose where, and the choice is permanent. A farm's acres must touch each other. Up to 25 acres per purchase; expand as often as you like from your edit page. 56 acres sit under the nine estates and are not for sale as ordinary land.
Development
Level 0 is bare land, included with purchase. Each level costs about 1.6× the one before. No cap - past level 13 every level adds a numbered wing to your observatory.
| Level | Structure | This level | From bare | Visible from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tilled soil | $0.40 | $0.40 | the lane |
| 2 | crops | $0.60 | $1 | the lane |
| 3 | fenced field | $1 | $2 | the lane |
| 4 | barn | $1.70 | $3.70 | 1 mile |
| 5 | orchard | $2.70 | $6.40 | 1 mile |
| 6 | greenhouse | $4.30 | $10.70 | 1 mile |
| 7 | irrigation | $6.90 | $17.60 | 1 mile |
| 8 | windmill | $11 | $28.60 | 5 miles |
| 9 | grain silo | $17.60 | $46.20 | 5 miles |
| 10 | manor house | $28.10 | $74.30 | 5 miles |
| 11 | chapel | $45 | $119.30 | 5 miles |
| 12 | lighthouse | $72.10 | $191.40 | 20 miles |
| 13 | observatory | $115.30 | $306.70 | 20 miles |
| 14 | observatory, wing 1 | $184.48 | $491.18 | 20 miles |
| 15 | observatory, wing 2 | $295.17 | $786.35 | 20 miles |
Visibility
- Up close (the lane): Every farm, every fence post.
- The village (1 mile): Barns, orchards and greenhouses show from here.
- The county (5 miles): Windmills, silos, manors and chapels carry this far.
- The whole county (20 miles): Only lighthouses and observatories are seen from this far out.
Landmarks
Nine unique estates, each several acres, sold exactly once and never recreated. They are the only plots bigger than a single acre and the most expensive thing on the map. The keeper's name is on it forever, it shows from the furthest zoom no matter how the keeper's farm is developed, and the farm page gets a badge. Buy one from your edit page.
| The Lake Nine acres of still water in Old Furrow. | 3 × 3 | $4,000 |
| The River Crossing Where the ford meets the lane. | 2 × 4 | $2,500 |
| The Church Stone tower, one bell, seen for miles. | 2 × 2 | $6,000 |
| The Crossroads Inn Every road in the county passes its door. | 2 × 3 | $7,500 |
| The Water Tower Tall, red, and named after you. | 2 × 2 | $3,000 |
| The Great Oak Older than the map. | 2 × 2 | $3,500 |
| The Mill Pond Ducks included. | 2 × 3 | $4,500 |
| The Stone Bridge Three arches over the brook. | 3 × 2 | $5,000 |
| Lighthouse Point The far corner. The light that never goes out. | 3 × 3 | $10,000 |
How big your name is drawn
Development buys distance - how far out your farm can be seen. Total spend buys size: the board carrying your name grows at every step below, and the single biggest keeper on the map gets the crown.
| Board | From |
|---|---|
| Largest keeper on the map | most spent on the map |
| Monument board | $2,500 |
| Hoarding | $500 |
| Signboard | $100 |
| Sign | $25 |
| Nameplate | $0 |
Naming a region
The map has 25 regions of 100 acres. The first farm in a region to pass $1,000 cumulative spend may rename it - once, permanently, first-come. Names go through a quick human check before they appear; offensive names are declined.
One farm per identity
A farm's identity is its normalized link: websites by domain (subdomains are separate) and X by handle. Re-submitting the same link adds to the existing farm; it never creates a second one. Anyone can pay toward any farm; money only ever improves it and never transfers ownership. Owners can change the link's path, never its domain.
Not allowed: shared platforms such as GitHub, the App Store and Google Play, chat invites, link shorteners, IP addresses, local hosts, anything illegal, and anything we wouldn't show a child on the map. We review every new farm before it goes live.
Ownership without accounts
There are no accounts. On first payment you get an edit link - a long random token - shown once and put on your Stripe receipt. It's the only key to your farm. Lost it? Email victor.petersen2@gmail.com from the address you paid with.
Clicks & privacy
We count one outbound click per visitor per farm per hour using a salted, daily-rotating hash of the IP. No cookies, no consent banner, no tracking scripts.
Refunds
Purchases are final. Land and improvements are delivered the moment they go live and are never removed, downgraded or resold, so we can't take them back. If something went wrong, write to us before starting a chargeback - we'd rather fix it. Nothing here limits any non-excludable statutory rights you have.
If an acre you paid for was taken in the seconds before your payment landed, we never fail the payment: your plot moves to the nearest free acre, your farm is flagged for a human look, and we tell you exactly where it went. If you'd rather have your money back in that case, say so within 14 days.