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Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by kenny_r »

matt1 wrote: post #2

Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…

I really like it. This proves there's still an immense number of viable domain names out there for startups.

Since you asked for some feedback, here's my two cents: I'd like to be able to sort the results by having my search term at the front or at the back of the domain name.

Highlighting the difference between verbs, nouns and adjectives is also something I'd like to see, taking a page from the book of http://impossibility.org/

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #11
matt1 wrote: post #2

Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…

Domain Pigeon was a brilliant site, I mourned its loss. It's wonderful to see that you've built a new site. The execution is simple and easy to use. I'd be conservative when it comes to adding features or futzing too much with the UX. I find the color scheme very readable, although of course that might be different for some people. Thumbs up from me. A post-search filtering mechanism might be useful, although of cour…

Thanks Jayson.

I've considered adding Domain Pigeon-style domain names to a separate section of Lean Domain Search, but as you note there's also a lot of value it keeping it simple ("do one thing well"). So we'll see what people want.

Agreed on the post-search filtering. Other than alphabetical and by length, is there any other way you'd like to filter it?

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

kenny_r wrote: post #21
matt1 wrote: post #2

Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…

I really like it. This proves there's still an immense number of viable domain names out there for startups. Since you asked for some feedback, here's my two cents: I'd like to be able to sort the results by having my search term at the front or at the back of the domain name. Highlighting the difference between verbs, nouns and adjectives is also something I'd like to see, taking a page from the book of http://impos…

Great ideas, especially about filtering by starts with vs ends with. Appreciate it.

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by [deleted] »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #11
matt1 wrote: post #2

Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…

Domain Pigeon was a brilliant site, I mourned its loss. It's wonderful to see that you've built a new site. The execution is simple and easy to use. I'd be conservative when it comes to adding features or futzing too much with the UX. I find the color scheme very readable, although of course that might be different for some people. Thumbs up from me. A post-search filtering mechanism might be useful, although of cour…

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Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #23

One modest suggestion—I would remove GoDaddy from the default list of registrars that appear when a user selects a name they are interested in.

I knew this would come up :)

I am relying on affiliate revenue for income and like it or not, GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world. That doesn't mean its inclusion is automatic, but IMO GoDaddy is not evil enough to warrant removing it. Thoughts?

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by jaysonelliot »

matt1 wrote: post #22
jaysonelliot wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domain Pigeon was a brilliant site, I mourned its loss. It's wonderful to see that you've built a new site. The execution is simple and easy to use. I'd be conservative when it comes to adding features or futzing too much with the UX. I find the color scheme very readable, although of course that might be different for some people. Thumbs up from me. A post-search filtering mechanism might be useful, although of cour…

Thanks Jayson. I've considered adding Domain Pigeon-style domain names to a separate section of Lean Domain Search, but as you note there's also a lot of value it keeping it simple ("do one thing well"). So we'll see what people want. Agreed on the post-search filtering. Other than alphabetical and by length, is there any other way you'd like to filter it?

I'm a fan of the filters that NXDom provides: http://www.nxdom.com/ I suppose it's as much about sorting as it is about filtering, actually. I particularly like their ability to sort by length and readability.

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

ohashi wrote: post #3
matt1 wrote: post #2

Hey guys, About three years ago I built and launched Domain Pigeon, a web app that listed available web 2.0-style domain names each day [1]. The site did fairly well, but it was my first foray into web apps and I lacked the experience to grow it into something bigger. Eventually I moved on to other projects and closed Domain Pigeon down, which has been one of my biggest regrets. My original vision for Domain Pigeon i…

How are you bulk checking now? I've been in the industry a long time and it's always been a pain in the ass to do anything in bulk. I've had lists so big registrars didn't want to run them for me :( Using APIs really isn't an option when you have a million names and 1 per second limit. Automating a bulk checker, most of them disable/play with it after a certain number of times (so even at let's say 500, i might be ab…

Magic (and a lot of experimentation).

Re: Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name

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Post by matt1 »

rikf wrote: post #6
joshuahedlund wrote: post #5

Overall, nice execution. I tested a couple nouns and I could definitely see myself using this in the feature. I do think the mass of green at the top of the results is a little... too stunning. Do you think the same thing could be achieved with colored text and/or colored borders for each div and/or something else along those lines?

I agree the black on bright green text is intense and not very readable. I like the idea but I think you need to tweak the design a little. The layout is pretty good just need to play around with the colors a little bit.

Thanks -- I've heard this from a few other folks too.

Any recommendations on the shade of green/red to make it?

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