How it works

At a real fountain you flip a coin over your shoulder, make a wish in your head, and walk away. The coin sinks to the bottom, the wish stays secret, and nobody — not even you, a year from now — ever hears about it again.

https://wishfountain.net is the opposite of that. You still throw a coin and you still make a wish — but here the wish doesn’t disappear. It becomes a digital wish: a coin resting in the fountain on this page, with your name and your wish attached to it, that you can open with a link and share with anyone you like.

Throwing a coin

  1. Pick a coin — silver, bronze or gold. The heavier the coin, the rarer it is in the fountain.
  2. Write your name and your wish.
  3. Pay securely with your card. Payments are handled by Stripe — I never see or store your card details.
  4. Your coin drops into a spot in the fountain and I email you a direct link to it, so you can find it and share it whenever you want.

Why pay for a wish?

You’re not really paying for the wish — that part is free, you could just close your eyes and wish right now. You’re paying for the coin to have a place in the fountain: a small, permanent spot that’s yours, that you can point people to and say “that one’s mine.” The fountain only has room for a limited number of coins, so once a spot is taken, it’s taken for good.

How long does a wish stay up?

Your wish is kept as a digital wish for the foreseeable future — for as long as https://wishfountain.net is online. This is a small personal project, not a company, so I can’t promise a specific number of years or that the site will run forever. What I can say is that there is no expiry date on a wish: I have no plans to take the fountain down, and if that ever had to change I would say so here well in advance.

What happens after you throw a coin?

Your coin joins everyone else’s on the fountain page. Hover any coin to read the wish behind it, or click it to zoom in. If you’d rather browse wishes as a list — newest first, grouped by coin — there’s the Wishes page.

Why do this?

A wish you keep to yourself is easy to forget. A wish you write down, drop into a fountain and send to the people who matter to you is a little more real — and a lot more fun to look back on, months or years later, exactly as you wrote it.

Ready? Go to the fountain and throw your coin.

Questions? Contact me at [email protected].