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Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by Jugurtha »

paulpauper wrote: post #21
junto wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point is that he picks it up before anyone else does in your behalf. He's doing the equivalent of standing in line for you outside the Apple store on iPhone 7 release day and then charging you a premium for his services.

yeah but this can be done for much less and if the domain is actually worth anything (it has backlinks, age, and traffic) you will pay for more than $99 since you will be competing with many other bidders. This is a huge industry and you're competing with Russians , eastern Europeans and others who scan for domains thousands of times a minute and check them for rankings and other factors...Very seldom does a good dom…

It depends why you want it. When Facebook bought fb.com, I don't think it was for the backlinks, age, or traffic.

People want things for a whole variety of reasons.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by [deleted] »

pbreit wrote: post #38
Tinyyy wrote: post #34

I don't understand how this can survive in the long run - what's stopping someone else from setting up an identical service at lower prices? There is literally no lock in because users can sign up for multiple services and potentially pay a lower price (depends on which one snags the domain). Or is the technology behind that unique?

If you think such a thing that easy, you should do it. But it aint.

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Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by poorman »

NIC.IO now has backordering. In order for park.io to continue being successful with landing and selling premium domains, he must be appraising the value of the domain and his chance of selling it in one of his auctions. Then weighing that against the NIC.io backorder price of 60EUR (67.35USD) + 60EUR registration fee and finally backordering it himself far enough in advance before someone else does (because only 1 backorder can be placed on NIC.IO).

Interview here: http://www.domainsherpa.com/mike-carson-parkio-interview/

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by rando444 »

paulpauper wrote: post #21
junto wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point is that he picks it up before anyone else does in your behalf. He's doing the equivalent of standing in line for you outside the Apple store on iPhone 7 release day and then charging you a premium for his services.

yeah but this can be done for much less and if the domain is actually worth anything (it has backlinks, age, and traffic) you will pay for more than $99 since you will be competing with many other bidders. This is a huge industry and you're competing with Russians , eastern Europeans and others who scan for domains thousands of times a minute and check them for rankings and other factors...Very seldom does a good dom…

You're critiquing this service like it hasn't been launched yet.

Despite people being able to do this for 'much less', the man built a successful business providing a service that people are willing to pay for.

Every business has competitors and often you can do the same thing that a business does yourself. This is true for everything from restraunts to taxis to clothing stores.

The lesson here is to not overlook creating something simple that can provide value to other people.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by sfeng »

csallen wrote: post #2

For those getting a 502, I'm working on the server, Elastic Beanstalk didn't scale fast enough >. Cached version here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0QdH3... Or if you refresh a few times, it should come up.

You might want to think about moving your blog to be a static site. Publish it with something like http://stout.is and it will be much cheaper, easier to maintain and will never go down.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by jonknee »

Tinyyy wrote: post #34

I don't understand how this can survive in the long run - what's stopping someone else from setting up an identical service at lower prices? There is literally no lock in because users can sign up for multiple services and potentially pay a lower price (depends on which one snags the domain). Or is the technology behind that unique?

The same could be said for almost any service.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by marknadal »

ca98am79 wrote: post #26
mef wrote: post #22

His hn profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ca98am79 Other projects, including what appears to be an initiative to start a new religion? ( http://consciousness.io/ ) http://humb.ly/projects.html

Haha yes - that's my new religion based on consciousness. I thought there needed to be more innovation in religion, so I started one

While it is good to encourage people not to be judgmental or angry, I have to logically point out that your religion contradicts itself:

Stating "judge nothing as "bad" or "evil"' and then stating "you are now free of any judgments, guilt, resistance, anger, or suffering of any kind." suggest that those things are undesirable traits. But isn't that a judgment?

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by csallen »

sfeng wrote: post #45
csallen wrote: post #2

For those getting a 502, I'm working on the server, Elastic Beanstalk didn't scale fast enough >. Cached version here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0QdH3... Or if you refresh a few times, it should come up.

You might want to think about moving your blog to be a static site. Publish it with something like http://stout.is and it will be much cheaper, easier to maintain and will never go down.

I'm using Ember FastBoot to render the site on the server, so it's not quite static. For some reason it's throwing lots of errors and dropping requests right now, even though it didn't when I launched Indie Hackers on HN last month and had about 3x as many requests/second. Frustrating.

Anyway, I'm in the process of just moving it from Elastic Beanstalk to serve it from S3 via CloudFront directly. Waiting for the CloudFront distribution to spin up...

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by Tinyyy »

pbreit wrote: post #38
Tinyyy wrote: post #34

I don't understand how this can survive in the long run - what's stopping someone else from setting up an identical service at lower prices? There is literally no lock in because users can sign up for multiple services and potentially pay a lower price (depends on which one snags the domain). Or is the technology behind that unique?

If you think such a thing that easy, you should do it. But it aint.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of his impressive project, but from my perspective, or from a business point of view, it doesn't make sense. While I have no doubts that this was nontrivial to create, history has shown that raw technology alone is rarely enough. Isn't trying to gain some form of lock-in an oft repeated point on HN?

Also, could you elaborate? I do wish to understand why, if I was wrong.

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