Be realistic about it. This project doesn't sound funded, so odds are you can't quite shell out $15,000 on a hunch that your site might take off. Perhaps come u

Be realistic about it. This project doesn't sound funded, so odds are you can't quite shell out $15,000 on a hunch that your site might take off. Perhaps come up with an even leaner MVP and release it sooner and under a similar, cheaper .com. This way you can gauge interest a little bit before you make the big domain name purchase. I say this because, if you're like me, I buy up domain names all the time and most of them end up going unused. Some of them I never even configure once. Would be a shame to spend $15,000 and have it do nothing.