ABOUT THIS VERY SERIOUS PROJECT

Million Strangers started as a stupid way to try to make money.

I start something stupid roughly once a week. Most of those ideas disappear about as quickly as they arrive.

This one didn't.

At some point I asked ChatGPT whether a million strangers might actually give one euro to a complete stranger on the internet.

It said it might work.

That was probably enough encouragement.

Now there's too much time, effort and an increasingly unreasonable amount of code in this thing to turn back.

The idea is simple:

1,000,000 strangers. €1 each.

You give €1. We give you a number.

That's it.

You don't buy anything. There are no rewards, tokens, shares, promises of riches or secret premium membership.

It's a donation to a stranger with a questionable idea.

Some of the money goes to payment fees and taxes. The rest goes to the stranger who had this stupid idea. Maybe I'll pay off some of my mortgage. If this somehow gets ridiculously big, I'd genuinely like to see whether all of us Strangers can decide on something good to do with part of what remains.

No promises yet.

First we need to find a million people willing to participate in something this unnecessary.

And somewhere along the way, this stupid idea became a genuinely interesting experiment:

How far can one euro travel between people who don't know each other?

Every Stranger gets a number. Every Stranger can bring in another Stranger. When that happens, they're connected in the network.

Maybe it stops at 37.

Maybe it reaches 1,000,000.

There's really only one way to find out.

You give €1. We give you a number. Somehow this felt worth building.