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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by jollofricepeas »

jhardy54 wrote: post #539
asciimov wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's for family budgeting and trust. We generally ask/inform if we are going to spend more than $100 on any given project/item. This helps both of us realize if it's a need or want. That way if I mention I'm going to get a new video game, I'll be stopped if its the third one in a month. Or if she wants new luggage, is it because it is needed or is it desired because it's a new color that is available. You might make…

Not being snarky: What's the alternative? Like, what would happen if you didn't do that? I ask because my wife and I spend money however we like, and I think it'd be quite strange if she checked in with me before spending $150. Is there some useful context or previous over-spending that you're solving, or is it something you'd recommend for everyone?

People generally treat their partners like pets or property where they gain agency over each other’s wallets and body.

I could careless what my partner spends his or her money on or even whom they decide to sleep with. We treat each other as equals to make their own decisions together or apart.

If you’re with an irresponsible person then you either break off the relationship or agree to suffer with the consequences of their actions.

It works surprisingly well. Others should try it.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by mlang23 »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

The day I have to ask my significant other how to spend money I earn is the day I will quit that relationship. I get that some couples throw everything on a pile and go a pseudo-democratic way of spending things, but I have never understood this meme of males telling all the world that they have to ask their wives for permission to spend money. We're in the 21st century now. She is supposed to not be dependant on him, and the same should apply in reverse.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by philihp »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

Find yourself a partner who will share in your enthusiasm.

From the looks of the author’s website, he very carefully time boxes his projects and weighs the expense and revenue generation. This is very different from spending a grand on something with unbounded time costs and no tangible return, like buying a boat.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by EvilEy3 »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

Do you also ask your wife when you have to use a toilet?

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by EvilEy3 »

gpvos wrote: post #514
pgsimp wrote: post #505

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1000$ is not a lot of money. Stop making excuses. (edit: he paid 1200$ initially and bought more when he already had some sales). So 1200$ was enough, or even less, as he could have done the same project with 50 domains instead of 150). If you don't have spare 1000$, you should work towards having them.

That depends a lot on your privilege level. Yours is apparently extremely high.

Do you feel good when you write such comment? Like "justice served" good or what? I'm genuinely curious.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by blockyhead »

_AzMoo wrote: post #488
konschubert wrote: post #460

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still have personal budgets, even if they are very small. Heck, when things are tight, even having 10 Euro personal "fun money" a month for each partner can give a bit of freedom.

For sure, but the original article and the comment I replied to are talking about relatively expensive spends.

1200$, which were not squandered but invested.

You should do something about your financial situation if that seems like a lot of money to you.

Edit: how is it controversial that if you are poor, you should try to do something about it? To claim it is impossible to escape poverty is madness (unless you are sick or handicapped). Obviously the only way to escape is if you do something about it.

Even if you just earn 5$ per hour, you can try to save something. 1000$ would be 200 hours, not impossible. A better strategy would be to try to find a job that pays better, though.

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Post by blockyhead »

LandR wrote: post #509
pgsimp wrote: post #505

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1000$ is not a lot of money. Stop making excuses. (edit: he paid 1200$ initially and bought more when he already had some sales). So 1200$ was enough, or even less, as he could have done the same project with 50 domains instead of 150). If you don't have spare 1000$, you should work towards having them.

> 1000$ is not a lot of money Yes, it is. I can't imagine spending $1000 on a fun thing or a joke and I'm single.

He spent it on a project that would potentially earn him more money.

Perhaps that you can not understand it is part of the reason why you can't afford it.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by EvilEy3 »

swader999 wrote: post #525
rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

It was kinda like that in 2013 when I suggested btc mining to my wife to cover the costs of the electric heat in our new house. And here we still are...

Hope you learned your lesson, buddy.

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Post by blockyhead »

ljm wrote: post #508
pgsimp wrote: post #505

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1000$ is not a lot of money. Stop making excuses. (edit: he paid 1200$ initially and bought more when he already had some sales). So 1200$ was enough, or even less, as he could have done the same project with 50 domains instead of 150). If you don't have spare 1000$, you should work towards having them.

> 1000$ is not a lot of money For a lot of people in the world, it's a tremendous amount of money. Congrats on being someone without that concern. > Stop making excuses. Take that up with the person you've imagined you're talking to.

We are talking about people with internet access, not some rural farmers in the third world.

Nobody says those rural farmers should embark on an emoji project.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by EvilEy3 »

hattmall wrote: post #551
bmsleight_ wrote: post #500

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I am in a long marriage,we each have our own money and joint account money. We are both in the same team and can spend our own money. Each person has the same percentage of take-home to spend as an individual. Work for us, may not work for others.

This is just you having "extra" money. I guess it's a demographic thing but do you (and everyone else) not understand that over 50% of people (in the US at least) don't have "extra" money. The money they make is already allocated before it's made, any sort of "extra" spending goes on a credit card or forces some other payment to be not made on time, often incurring fees. In some cases that money would deplete a small…

Wasn't all of this caused by people not knowing how to manage money rather than not being able to save?
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