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I went to fanpulse.com, said "huh?" and was gone. I've never understood the clever domain names for real websites. It's cool for your techie project that you h
by MicahWedemeyer 16y ago
I went to fanpulse.com, said "huh?" and was gone.
I've never understood the clever domain names for real websites. It's cool for your techie project that you hype here on HN. If it's meant to interact with your average citizen, then forget about it.
website == .com for 99% of the people out there. Just ask Yahoo who paid like $100k to finally get delicious.com
- kineticac 16y agoThat's true Micah, we're actually actively on our way to getting a .com for our next big launch. Thanks for the feedback!
- jfornear 16y ago...or just ask del.icio.us who sold for like a few million to Yahoo? :)
- p0ppe 16y agoWhich then ended up moving to delicious.com...
- MicahWedemeyer 16y agogood point. touche
- hyperbovine 16y agoNo disrespect to joshu (who is around), but I never had a single non-techie friend who used delicious. For whatever reason, only reddit (and to a lesser extent Digg) have been able to break out of the geek echo chamber when it comes to social news. Slashdot, which had a 6-10 year jump on all of them, never could do it either. Maybe it's the .com. Who knows.
- kineticac 16y agoI've seen a huge designer community using delicious. maybe the artsy guys and gals liked the "clever" name ;)