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I was marinading the idea of making a side project with deeper reviews of software, good and bad. The domains I had in mind: productrant.org productc*nt.org

by lebaux 5y ago

I was marinading the idea of making a side project with deeper reviews of software, good and bad. The domains I had in mind: productrant.org productc*nt.org productant.org I finally settled on productrant.org started working on my first bigger piece and then the war in Ukraine broke out and abolished my enthusiasm. I do not see it as a potent commercial project, I think I am just at that stage of life when I want to reach "best" section at HN once and subsequently get comments explaining how wrong I am about everything. Thoughts on the domain? The overall idea? Thanks!

Wiseacre 5y ago
There is a lot of software out there. Were you intending on focusing on a specific domain?
- lebaux 5y ago
  I am debating that myself, I figured I just make stuff up as I go. I discovered a ton of little known alternatives for your typical end-user needs, so probably nothing too specific. Alternatively, I work with WordPress and ever-hated SEO for some years now[1] and most of the things surrounding these two things is a scheme made to extract money from end-users. Should I focus on that? For example, if you look for "free wordpress themes 2022" you will find that the first page of Google results is all listicles of freemium themes that are years old. Of course the "best" themes are the ones who offer affiliate program. This is both fail of Google and WordPress, if you ask me. I started a sheet of all the websites deems quality results on this search query and linked together the repeated offenders, I want to use as much data as possible to support my salty opinions. The thing is... does anyone even care about this? [1] https://theseoframework.com https://theseoframework.com, SEO plugin for WordPress, FOSS, currently around 150k users, operated mostly by 2 guys.

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I was marinading the idea of making a side project with deeper reviews of software, good and bad. The domains I had in mind: productrant.org productc*nt.org

by lebaux 5y ago

Wiseacre 5y ago
There is a lot of software out there. Were you intending on focusing on a specific domain?
- lebaux 5y ago
  I am debating that myself, I figured I just make stuff up as I go. I discovered a ton of little known alternatives for your typical end-user needs, so probably nothing too specific. Alternatively, I work with WordPress and ever-hated SEO for some years now[1] and most of the things surrounding these two things is a scheme made to extract money from end-users. Should I focus on that? For example, if you look for "free wordpress themes 2022" you will find that the first page of Google results is all listicles of freemium themes that are years old. Of course the "best" themes are the ones who offer affiliate program. This is both fail of Google and WordPress, if you ask me. I started a sheet of all the websites deems quality results on this search query and linked together the repeated offenders, I want to use as much data as possible to support my salty opinions. The thing is... does anyone even care about this? [1] https://theseoframework.com https://theseoframework.com, SEO plugin for WordPress, FOSS, currently around 150k users, operated mostly by 2 guys.