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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

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Post by hnuser123456 »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #29

> 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 even doing this is keeping yourself sharp enough for when someone else makes a tool that lets you bring your idea to life in a more realistically achievable and complete-able fashion, for some definition of complete.

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by andoando »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #29

> 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…

Im the same way. I wish I was rich enough to hire like 10 developers and assign them to all the different projects I have in mind.

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by pan69 »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #57

The trick is just buying 1 domain and putting every project on a different subdomain. Apart from this I see myself represented in this post.

Yes! Build a "platform". I learned that as well. Also saves your from having to come up with snazzy names for your "new product" as you can just name it after its function, notes.mydomain.com

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by nxobject »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #29

> 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 can give myself a similar cognitive reward for simply reading on HN about other people completing projects, and even (at my lowest) passively watching YouTube videos of other people building cool stuff.

I struggle with the same thing -- I'm resigned to the solution that even (or especially) when you're doing hobby projects, you might have to resort to blocking HN or other distractors for a bit.

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by NetOpWibby »

My most recent one was a social network: https://socii.network

Stopped working on it because Mastodon is good enough for me.

I had a Handshake domain registry/registrar: https://neuenet.com

Stopped working on it because Andrew Lee tried to take over the blockchain.

An analytics tool: https://chew.sh

Gauges shut down and I enjoyed that service. My previous domain is now owned by someone who's last name is Chew, which is cool.

Forgot I just let https://design2code.me expire because I didn't put in the work to get my name/services out there.

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I'm currently working on https://nickel.video and think I'll stick with it for awhile. I also registered https://neue.host a few weeks ago, with the idea that a lot of the side projects I had in the past would actually work as a collection of services.

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by NetOpWibby »

barrell wrote: post #45
freeone3000 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would not subscribe to your new app that is not yet finished when you have a previous product that was cancelled without fanfare.

I think that’s fair! The question was greatest fails though, I would say that is par for the course. Check back in 10 years though, Phrasing will still be running, and it will have had all the features of kanji plus for 9 years and then some :-)

See you in 10 years!

https://archive.is/gnhIi

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by glax »

There were 6 domains that were bought by me in the last 12 years.

side project, business partnership, personal music streaming site, serverless blog.

It's hard to do if you have a regular 9 to 5 and also some other hobby(I'm into motorcycles :D).

Only remaining domain is of my name pusparaj.com (but it's in auction mode)

I have also lost ownership 2 times or more i think, because i tend to rotate registrars and forgot to renew it.

now 3 domains are remaining, will let them expire.

Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

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Post by henriquegodoy »

Ever 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
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