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Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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thumbkissing.com for some silly touch app :) medicaresetaside.us for medicare cms system examinationundearoath.us cms to manage examinations

Re: thumbkissing.com - thats one of Pair's (YC Company) best features[1]

There are a few other's in this space as well you should contact Pair or one of them in this space, and see if they might want to acquire it :)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/23/pair-is-a-path-for-the-two-...

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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I've got a ton, but hold hope that I'll polish them off and finish them some day. As for the domains I'd be happy to get rid of, here they are: Whatdeliversto.me and whatdeliverstome.com -- both intended to compete with GrubHub, but never happened. Typemotion.com -- was a blogging platform that was actually pretty good. Got acquired for a small sum of money, then the buyers folded and gave the domain back. It's an od…

Curious - how come AppDiem didn't take off? Something like that around early 2011 really could've taken off and helped with the app discovery problem. I know now there's a ton of players in the space but still!

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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I've got a ton, but hold hope that I'll polish them off and finish them some day. As for the domains I'd be happy to get rid of, here they are: Whatdeliversto.me and whatdeliverstome.com -- both intended to compete with GrubHub, but never happened. Typemotion.com -- was a blogging platform that was actually pretty good. Got acquired for a small sum of money, then the buyers folded and gave the domain back. It's an od…

Curious - how come AppDiem didn't take off? Something like that around early 2011 really could've taken off and helped with the app discovery problem. I know now there's a ton of players in the space but still!

Bad timing, lack of persistence; We were working with a few app developers and had targeted releases scheduled for a month after launch day while we were trying to recruit new developers to keep the pipeline full for the next month. The day before we launched, Amazon released its Android market and started giving away one app for free a day.

Most of the developers we were scheduled to release ended up bailing to go to Amazon. I was the developer, and by launch day most of the heavy lifting was done (only took a couple weeks to build as I recall), but my partner was the marketing guy, and had all the relationships.

Right after we heard about Amazon's thing, he had some personal crises arise and ended up bailing. I don't fault him for it, as he had some decidedly real real-life family drama, but I wasn't even remotely equipped to handle the failure as I didn't know who had bailed or how to fix it.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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Curious - how come AppDiem didn't take off? Something like that around early 2011 really could've taken off and helped with the app discovery problem. I know now there's a ton of players in the space but still!

Bad timing, lack of persistence; We were working with a few app developers and had targeted releases scheduled for a month after launch day while we were trying to recruit new developers to keep the pipeline full for the next month. The day before we launched, Amazon released its Android market and started giving away one app for free a day. Most of the developers we were scheduled to release ended up bailing to go t…

Shoot, sorry to hear that; at the very least you have tackled a pretty challenging problem.

No doubt that discovery is something that really could've changed the app space dynamics. Something similar happened at the place I used to work - a lot of top devs were reached out to by Amazon and they initially disallowed in app advertising. The developers complied and it caused a slight panic.

Re: Ask HN: Domain names you bought for a start-up that never happened

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swapsend.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

Wow, so few people ever used it im suppressed you remember it. You are correct, it was built with Django and did support about 10 services.

The mejor flaw with the service was that you needed to get all you friends signed up to it as well in order to get them to enter all their accounts.

It was fun to make and I lernt allot building it...

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