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Not saying I'm successful in the web area, but one thing I try to do is to have some working code before buying a domain name. Like business cards, buying a do
by chubot 9y ago
Not saying I'm successful in the web area, but one thing I try to do is to have some working code before buying a domain name.
Like business cards, buying a domain name makes it seem like you're doing something, but you're really not. You haven't even started; you're just throwing a small amount of money down the drain and dreaming of some future moneymaker.
I'm sure there are many people who have domain names for 1+ years but haven't worked on the product the whole time. I did that once and then learned my lesson!
If it helps, think of buying (and choosing) the domain name as the reward for making something work :)
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EDIT: "playing house" is the term that Paul Graham uses for people who go through the motions of starting a business without understanding what they're doing.
http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
- vtange 9y agoI'm pretty sure thoroughness and self-discipline is what actually matters. Going to a site and actually buying the darn name is actually work some dreamers are too lazy to even start. You have to be pretty convicted that this is the name you're going to plaster all over the place for a while. You also have to be pretty darn sure your name might go very soon if you don't stake it asap. I bought my domain name (my user name) relatively early (before I had even learned Node) because as Chinese names often go, vtang was already taken and many easy alternatives as well. I ended up with an "e" at the end for "engineer" but as we all know there is probably a Vincent Tang out there in the world who is also an engineer. Checked all social media and hammered things in asap.