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

#31

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.

Yes, that was the previous version that I announced here on January 1st. I figured that usability is more important than fine-grained control over the score weights, because the sort order is not terribly critical. Basically, the user should be able to adjust the trade-off between short and popular names. But it's a brainstorming tool, we're not trying to get one particular name to the very top of the list.

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

#32
Great project, congratulations.

I am still curious about one aspect: why do you realease the source code? (same question for browsershots).. I think for such a service the vast majority is not interested in the backend code and those who are interested might take it and build a competing product, not being required to release the modified code. Am I missing something? What is your take on this ?

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

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post #32

Great project, congratulations. I am still curious about one aspect: why do you realease the source code? (same question for browsershots).. I think for such a service the vast majority is not interested in the backend code and those who are interested might take it and build a competing product, not being required to release the modified code. Am I missing something? What is your take on this ?

Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source

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

#34
post #32

Great project, congratulations. I am still curious about one aspect: why do you realease the source code? (same question for browsershots).. I think for such a service the vast majority is not interested in the backend code and those who are interested might take it and build a competing product, not being required to release the modified code. Am I missing something? What is your take on this ?

Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source

Thanks for the answer, I agree with all your points. I'm just saying that still, there is a small technical difference from open source desktop software: technically, in this case, I can not verify that the source code you release is exactly the code that you are running on the server, just that the code reproduces all the "visible" functionality of the site. I wonder if there exists such a place for hosting trusted web-apps, where one could publish source code and they would certify that the actual code running on the server is the same.

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

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source

Thanks for the answer, I agree with all your points. I'm just saying that still, there is a small technical difference from open source desktop software: technically, in this case, I can not verify that the source code you release is exactly the code that you are running on the server, just that the code reproduces all the "visible" functionality of the site. I wonder if there exists such a place for hosting trusted…

Again, I'm not saying you should do anything differently, I'm just trying to understand if open source makes sense for pure web apps.
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