I also keep quite a few domains around because I tell (lie) to myself that someday I'm going to do something really cool with them. I greatly reduced this by repeating to myself, like a mantra: "If you ever make it, a domain will be available".
I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
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Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#172IMO building a side project with the goal that it will take off (and to hopefully get rich) is not the right motivation. Spoiler: it probably won't take off and you probably won't get rich. Minor survivorship bias.
Work on a side project because it's interesting (e.g. you want to learn the tech) or because it's useful to you (i.e. you want to use it). Not because it may make you rich.
In the former case, you may lose interest, but that's okay: you've learned in the process. In the latter, if you get to a point where you can use it, it's really rewarding.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
i actually buy the domain name at the end. i am stingy. which means i do not buy domain names as i always loose interest after some allnighters. but the code base remains until the motivation returns
That's not stingy, that's sensible :-) After spending far too much money buying things to support some planned activity that I never actually carry out, I now try to follow the rule that I only buy the thing when I actually need to use it.
This is a good rule for saving money in other areas of life too.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#174Meh. This is why I own a couple of throwaway domains: I just put new projects on subdomains.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#175It's kind of my addiction. This is the latest project: https://www.proteinmath.app/
And this is a couple weekends ago: https://www.danesh.app/
Let's be friends! I've hacked couple websites with other people before and honestly the learning itself is worth the time even if the project doesn't take off.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#176Ever thinked on automating this process of creating this side projects? i think that more and more future feels like a lot of ones having really big swarms of "agents" that can like research about ideas on the internet (like finding problems on twitter, reddit, ... that a saas can solve it) and a team implementing and deploying since from code to marketing in a frenetic rhythm
I dont know about research but I am building a production grade python and express application generator. For express, it would create an empty project with a README, setup typescript, setup path aliases, setup ts-node, setup linters and formatters with all required scripts, setup testing libraries, setup multiple environments aka dev, staging, production and testing and then setup logging that works differently on each environment, creates docker containers for each environment that works differently again, sets up integration tests for redis and postgres, sets up github templates for feature requests, issues, pull requests and adds github actions and gonna set up instant deployments to AWS at the minimum and see how that goes. Once this tool is fully ready, it would take you about 30 seconds to generate a full blown production grade application that works with the latest dependency versions. Everything is run inside docker and verified that it actually works. Gonna make SaaS a real breeze after i integrate ORMs and payment gateways with email providers to this
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#177> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. At least you're actually doing the "I code for 3 all-nighters" step! I've stopped too many projects at the "I buy a domain name" stage, and added an intermediate "I create a Trello board" step between that and starting to write code. No need to pull all-nighters, which are hard to do with family and a full-time job, if all I need to…
I feel like I'm looking into a mirror haha. The number of times I have spent a ton of time planning and then little to no doing over the years is something I try not to dwell on.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#178I have tons of projects partly made or finished but small in scope on my personal site:
Maybe some of them could make money, with more polish and marketing. Who knows! I have never tried.
I just make whatever I feel like.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with a single domain and a $5/m VPS that keeps both DB and application on it? I ran a paid business app on a $5/m VPS. No complaints. If your $5/m VPS cannot handle some load, then that's when you upgrade it. And, TBH, at the point that your $5/m VPS is at 80% load on a paid product, you're already getting a few thousands of dollars of revenue from it anyway.
if i were just using a dataset to store user settings, i could get by with something tiny. but my problem is that my fun project ideas are usually some variant of "theres a huge dataset, lets build some fun dataviz on it". which is a problem because a) i need a big db to store that giant dataset and b) the db size doesn't scale with usage, so i can't just put it off until later
Okay, just how much data are we talking?
$5/m droplet + $10/m storage gets you 100GB of storage that you can put a PostgreSQL (or other) DB onto.
The storage situation is not quite as expensive as it used to be.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#180I also launched 11 projects and harvested 11domain names that no one visited.