FriendInMyBed.com - Adult social networking... AnswerBeak.com - search CherishSteveJobs.com - self explanatory WhyDoYouLike.Me - he he
Integrate WhyDoYouLike.Me with Facebook, get rich, buy island.
Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened
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#63panoptech.com - search tool that sat in your system tray watching keyboard input and doing background searches so that it would have results immediately ready for you anytime you wanted them. circa 1999, no one cared about privacy issues back then :)
feedcache.com/feedcache.net - QOS for RSS. Idea was to cache every RSS feed and their associated enclosures, etc. and make them available via API so that application developers had certainty that they could retrieve the content from the feed when they needed it. circa 2003/2004ish. Internet infrastructure sorta caught up to the idea pretty quickly and we also realized that it was too hard to compete by just providing QOS on content that a) didn't belong to us and b) was freely (usually) elsewhere.
I literally have hundreds of others, and these two are my favorites...
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#64upgradr.com - greasemonkey for IE => silly idea
digestr.com - some crazy idea similar to Yahoo pipes
zedhub.com - don't even remember what it was supposed to be ;)
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#65MyShitIsOnFire.com -- A website explaining how to put out various kinds of fires. Also sells cheeky shirts/prints/etc, to match the associated comics.
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#66quickbite.in - for a restaurant search/recommendation system for Indian market. I don't see myself doing this anymore. I'm waiting for someone who can make good use of it and can pay me a decent amount.
guzloo.com - Didn't buy it for any particular use. I purchased it because I found the name short & funny. As of now, it is hosting a useless unmaintained php site that I made on a weekend.
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#68buddy-fund.com - A way for users to sell their Facebook wall to advertisers. We should have done a little more research into the idea, it's against the ToS surprise, surprise.
clanbo.com - (The name is awful, I didn't come up with it) It was a free game server hosting service which also provided premium accounts. It got quite a bit of traffic and made me a little money back when I was 16 but the effort to return ratio is pretty low and in such a competitive area it would be hard to make it into anything worthwhile.
These two domains and sites are available for sell if anyone is interested. Full source can be provided on both. Clanbo.com fully functional and ready to host both TS2 and TS3 servers.
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#69coho.me - "CoHome" Yammer for households/families.
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#70swapsend.com: This was going to be a file sharing service for businesses like design consultancies, it would enable them to Swap files with their clients and Send files to others. designdown.com: This has been planned for many things, a blog about design and UX, the over arching name of a group of other websites, a web design and development consultancy. projectaur.com: This was going to be a project management tool…
I actually remember coming across flutterbox & seeing it as a "track what your friends are up to" type service.
IIRC it was built in Django & supported about 10-11 services inc. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg etc