About RIPMoney
A very small website about setting imaginary money on fire, built by one person who should probably have been doing something else.
Who is behind this
Hi, I'm Piero Nanni, the founder and the developer of RIPMoney. Not a team, not a studio, not a venture-backed startup with a mission statement. One person, one laptop, and a joke that got out of hand.
I build things for the web for a living. RIPMoney started as a throwaway experiment: what if spending money gave you absolutely nothing except a stupid message and a place on a leaderboard? Turns out that is funnier than it has any right to be, so it became a real site, with real code, real payments and a real privacy policy.
Every message in the collection was written by hand. Every feature exists because it made someone laugh in testing. If something on this site feels broken, weird or unfair, it is my fault and you can email me directly.
Why burn virtual money
People like watching things disappear. Bubble wrap, campfires, sandcastles at high tide, the last slice of cake. Money is the one thing we are told to never, ever waste, which is exactly what makes wasting a fake version of it so satisfying.
RIPMoney takes that impulse and gives it a scoreboard. You burn a credit, you get a collectible message you did not choose, some of them rare, most of them dumb. Then you do it again, because there is one you have not seen yet.
How the site actually works
- You sign up and get 5 free credits. No card needed to try it.
- Burning a credit draws one message from the pool. Rarer messages come up less often.
- Everything you unlock lives in your collection, and your total burn count puts you on the leaderboard.
- Extra credits are optional and bought through Stripe. I never see or store your card details.
The honest part
- Credits are not money and never convert back into money. They have zero cash value, here or anywhere else.
- This is not gambling. There is no payout, no prize with value, nothing to win back. The only thing you get is a message and bragging rights.
- Burned credits are gone. That is the entire product. Read the terms before buying any.
- Spend what you would happily lose. If burning credits stops feeling like a joke and starts feeling like a habit, stop. It is a bit, not a hobby.
- Your data stays boring. No selling, no ad networks. Details in the privacy policy.
Say hello
Feature ideas, bug reports, complaints about a message that personally attacked you: all welcome on the contact page. I read everything, and I reply to most of it.