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Tile Crowd (tilecrowd.com) is a collaborative digital artwork: 500 columns by 200 rows, 100,000 squares. The first 250 tiles are free. After that, $1..

Payments support this project and its creator. This is not a donation or charity, and it is not tax deductible.

There are no accounts in this version. Email is how we verify one free Founding Tile per person and send you the link to the tile you claimed. Ownership lives in Postgres. Reservations live briefly in Redis. For paid tiles, Stripe's webhook — not the thank-you page — is what marks a tile paid. Free Founding Tiles never go through Stripe.

Founding Tiles are the first 250 free, verified claims (Founder #1 through #250). That number is the order the free claims succeeded, not the grid square. Paid purchases are not Founding Tiles.