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this is telling Just take a look at all these successful startups which either had a temporary domain name, or which still have a different domain name to thei
by flylib 11y ago
this is telling
Just take a look at all these successful startups which either had a temporary domain name, or which still have a different domain name to their name:
Square was squareup.com,
DropBox was getdropbox.com,
Facebook was thefacebook.com,
Instagram was instagr.am,
Twitter was twttr.com,
Foursquare was playfoursquare.com,
Basecamp is basecamphq.com,
Pocket is getpocket.com,
Bitly was/is bit.ly,
Delicious was del.icio.us,
Freckle is letsfreckle.com
https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-name-your-startup https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-name-your-startup
- unethical_ban 11y agoSimple was banksimple.com.
- jl 11y agoI only know the backstory of Dropbox, but I'm certain Drew Houston would tell you that it was a painfully distracting process to obtain dropbox.com. I suspect if he could have done it all over again, he would have spent the 30 minutes and few hundred dollars to buy something different. Of course, there were a lot more options back in 2007.
- melvinmt 11y agoUber was ubercab.com > With characteristic sense of profitable timing, it bought the domain name Uber.com from the Universal Music Group for 2% of the company then later managed to buy back the shares – today worth hundreds of millions – for $1m. http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/dec/21/travis-kalanick-uber-cab-app-observer-proifile http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/dec/21/travis-ka...