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Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

#11

Post by jcrocholl »

adunsmoor wrote: post #5

It looks like there is a bug when using the prefix and suffix fields together. Entered "ns" in the prefix field and saw a bunch of domains. Added "ing" to the suffix field and nothing showed up. I figured the site was just slow until I realized that it wasn't going to refresh. Cleared "ing" and typed "g" in the suffix field. Showed results. Then added an "n" just before the "g" to get "ng". Less results than before a…

Yes, I know the combined prefix and suffix search doesn't work properly yet. The reason is that the App Engine datastore doesn't support fancy search, only sorting with custom indexes. All results for a GQL query must be adjacent in the index. The indexes for combined prefix+suffix search are still building but should be ready in a few days.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

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Post by petercooper »

Was yours the site with the numbers to weight the score along the top for each column? As a geek, I far preferred that because I had more control. As someone looking at this with the eye of your average user, this system is better. A bit like comparing vi and Textmate, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

#16

Post by pbz »

Maybe I'm not understanding how it should work, but I'm not getting a lot of results. For example try to enter something crazy / random in the beginning, like "kqxj" you get no results. Even for something like ending in "hedule" (since there seems to be a bug if you type in more than 5 characters) only a few entries are shown for domains that end in "schedule"... It's pretty fast though.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

#17

Post by mbrubeck »

pbz wrote: post #16

Maybe I'm not understanding how it should work, but I'm not getting a lot of results. For example try to enter something crazy / random in the beginning, like "kqxj" you get no results. Even for something like ending in "hedule" (since there seems to be a bug if you type in more than 5 characters) only a few entries are shown for domains that end in "schedule"... It's pretty fast though.

The site searches a database consisting mostly of recently-expired domains, so it's not likely to contain any given random string.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

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Post by krobertson »

Love the simplicity and quality of the site. I like the "How can we improve this page" everywhere. It is nice to see a constant message of trying to improve and making it drop dead simple to send feedback.

Above all though, the speed of the lookups is impressive. So many other tools are slow and clunky.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search

#20

Post by gmurphy »

jcrocholl wrote: post #11
adunsmoor wrote: post #5

It looks like there is a bug when using the prefix and suffix fields together. Entered "ns" in the prefix field and saw a bunch of domains. Added "ing" to the suffix field and nothing showed up. I figured the site was just slow until I realized that it wasn't going to refresh. Cleared "ing" and typed "g" in the suffix field. Showed results. Then added an "n" just before the "g" to get "ng". Less results than before a…

Yes, I know the combined prefix and suffix search doesn't work properly yet. The reason is that the App Engine datastore doesn't support fancy search, only sorting with custom indexes. All results for a GQL query must be adjacent in the index. The indexes for combined prefix+suffix search are still building but should be ready in a few days.

Until that happens, you could reduce it to a single field and show results for both types of searches. I found the prefix/suffix thing pretty confusing.
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