Comment by jonplackett
6 days ago
I have now reached the point where I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.
I’ve only bought one domain name since then and got the project out!
I think the domain name is your reward for finishing your minimum viable product.
Thanks, you should have told me this 13 years ago, before I lost 10k+ in domain names :-D
This is how I learned the lesson myself…
> I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.
Me too. I learnt it after 6 expired domains
I learned after 600. Or did I? :)
I worked with a guy like you. He had a seemingly pathological need to one-up someone even when it was just a blatant lie.
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I think of this as the "garage band problem". Imagine a bunch of teens deciding to make a band. They come up with a name, make t-shirts, even get the cover for the bass drum -- but how much did they actually play?
Personally, I'll snag a domain if it's really good -- like one word or a proper combo of words, spellable, etc... I won't set it to renew, though.
I love this take
Good idea. Also - putting side projects on subdomains of your main domain / using cloudflare tunnel - Tailscale funnel to run services from your computer
never bought a domain until i had the first production version ready
So pessimistic
Release without a domain name, and wait until the product is popular before even spending the time to choose a name...
Yea that's safest, validating then building an idea should be a priority.
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