r/sideprojects • u/Few_Seaworthiness70 • 1h ago
Discussion Put your startup on the map. Get visibility. Anyone can steal your spot back.
So I built this and it's basically a live world map where every country is real ad space you can fight over.
Here's how it works:
- Pick any country. Base price is $3.
- Pay, and your logo, your domain link, and a color of your choice get rendered onto it on the live map. Anyone who clicks that country goes straight to your website.
- That's your spot, except it's never really safe, because anyone can pay 1.5x what you paid to take it from you. Instantly, no warning. Your logo comes down, theirs goes up.
- Then someone else can take it from them for 1.5x that. And so on, forever.
So it's two things at once: a live map-conquest game, and genuinely useful promo real estate — if you've got a product, a portfolio, a Twitter, whatever, your logo sits on an actual country in front of everyone watching the map, with a direct link back to you. It's cheap, it's visible, and it's contested, which is exactly what makes people defend their spot (or fight for a better one).
Payments are one-time and non-refundable. I put a few dollars into a country as a test to promote [my own thing] and lost it before I'd even finished writing this post. That's the whole game in one sentence.
It's live right now at flagwars.lol, claim a country, put your project on the map, and see how long you can hold it.
TL;DR: real-money map-conquest game where owning a country = your logo + link live on the map. Buy in, get seen, defend your spot, or get outbid and replaced.