As in, creating software to produce a database which you call hmm maybe a "Softcoin" and you would limit the supply by typing an arbitrary number in the source

As in, creating software to produce a database which you call hmm maybe a "Softcoin" and you would limit the supply by typing an arbitrary number in the source code, say 21,000,000? After you run the software to generate the coins, you can sell them to other people and tell them the coins are rare. Maybe you can leave a few coins to be generated by other people too, that way they you can let them feel like they're part of it.