Keep the Duck Alive
It dies in 48 hours unless someone gives it a dollar.
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Keep the Duck Alive is an Project Null experiment: can strangers on the internet keep something alive together, for no reason except that it needs them? $1 buys 48 hours of life and a Listing in the page.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: collaborative social web experiments · 63 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Payments
- Internet of Things
- Games
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is a novelty website with a countdown timer, a payment webhook (via Dodo Payments), and a persistent database to track time extensions and donations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 160 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #136 of 161 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Hold the Hour — The internet has a clock · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Dayfinite · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Random Duck Race · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- BtcForecaster · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Rubber Duck · hn · 2026-07-09 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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