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But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas const

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink: editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorchingearth.com thechronoscope.com 24hourdigitalclock.com adfunkr.com aircontroltower.com aracina.com artistreferences.com athletelite.com askaboutamerica.com audiofeedr.com australers.com babysnooker.com beercounting.com bipabit.com bonfirekids.com bookinthebag.com cactusportal.com californiculture.com cheerfulservices.com complimentopia.com crocotin.com dreadpirateradio.com egoarbitrage.com firsttimebuyeralert.com gardenomat.com gigaspeakers.com hipsterian.com kateke.com messingwithyourmind.com myfitnessdoctor.com mypassword123.com orgasmatron5000.com panonyx.com propmakerz.com ricefactor.com thrillerdomains.com ulugulu.com

_andrei_ 4y ago
Posted more on a different thread not to spam this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675510
Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
All taken by squatters in 3.. 2.. 1...
CodeSgt 4y ago
> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is something that, to my great shame, I've always struggled with. Any recommendations for improving in this area?
- rileyphone 4y ago
  https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine/ https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becomi...
- anticristi 4y ago
  I can't find a good reference, but there was a "standard" process for being creative: Step 0: Get yourself in front of a paper or whiteboard. Eliminate distractions. Step 1: Get all of the BS out of your head. Whatever comes out. Do not try to discuss, assess, etc., just get it out of your head. Step 2: Take a step back and start assessing. Is there anything valuable? What if you pair things together? I heard people applying this to ideate on a new start-up, brand, domain name, etc.
  - Cthulhu_ 4y ago
    That's brainstorming, basically; just come out with ideas and say "yes and" instead of "but", save any judgments and but what ifs for later.
- coffeeblack 4y ago
  On YouTube search “John Cleese on creativity in management”
  - latexr 4y ago
    Or check out his book “Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide”. It’s pretty short and the contents are pretty much that video.
- foobarbecue 4y ago
  Take long showers or baths and let your mind wander. Do sports where you're alone for a long time, like running or surfing.
- chillfox 4y ago
  Buy a thesaurus, then use it.
  - airstrike 4y ago
    or visit thesaurus.com
- dj_mc_merlin 4y ago
  Drugs. Bad for generating ideas, but makes your ability to generate them when you're sober better.
  - dspillett 4y ago
    Sometimes now, if you are careful about dose. It can free the doubts and writers block. Hence the phrase a few write-y friends of mine like to repeat: write drunk, edit sober. Or to put it a little more prosaically: you can edit a bad page, you can't edit a blank page.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
xcambar 4y ago
> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is the problem, not the solution.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
rdrey 4y ago
Your domain ideas are pretty good. You could sell your creativity as a service. 50 bucks for 3-5 name options for someone's side project, if you're that good at coming up with them you'd save everyone some time.
dannyw 4y ago
> messingwithyourmind.com Yoink, thank you. Seems perfect for my new email.
mdrzn 4y ago
Literally all already squatted.
- mritchie712 4y ago
  I think OP owns these which is why they posted this
  - _andrei_ 4y ago
    Not true at all.
- ntoskrnl 4y ago
  Not all -- orgasmatron5000.com is still available! I'm surprised, I thought that would be the first one to go.
_andrei_ 4y ago
*Dropped some more (~120) here:* https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.
- valleyjo 4y ago
  yucktastic.com - wonder what would be on such a site ha
  - bell-cot 4y ago
    Products that were inspired by Nickelodeon's green slime?
    - Izkata 4y ago
      Green slime twinkies: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-06/2/14/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane02/sub-buzz-7843-1464893394-2.jpg https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-06/2/14...
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - dylan604 4y ago
    a web forum for Amazon users to discuss the products they received instead of the product the ordered
  - addandsubtract 4y ago
    /r/TIHI (Thanks, I hate it)
- andai 4y ago
  Did you make these manually, ie. with your imagination? Good stuff.
  - 4y ago
sillysaurusx 4y ago
Thought no one would notice the orgasmatron5000 eh? I’m onto you. My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job, so that brought back memories. Sadly the popularity dried up when their YouTube video stopped being recommended as much. It was a real DaVinci-workshop type operation. I’m still amazed how much logistics went into it. Also art ability and sculpting. You have to be able to make molds, which are the inverse of the shape you want to cast. It’s really difficult.
- dash2 4y ago
  I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?
  - sillysaurusx 4y ago
    It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.
    - dotancohen 4y ago
      > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Shape of the part that interfaces with the guy's anatomy? I wonder what types of problems? How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?
      - sillysaurusx 4y ago
        Bingo. I wasn't involved directly, so unfortunately this is a game of telephone. This was also back in 2012 through 2015, so it's been some time. But here's my understanding of it. Suppose the problem is to make a silicone bag that you can fill with warm water. That wouldn't be easy, but it'd be much easier. To make something like that out of silicone, you have to pour some material into a mold, and let it sit. (I think the material was called Dragon Skin, but I'm not sure.) Think of it like cooking pancakes: You could imagine pouring this silicone into a frying pan and letting it sit, and you'd end up with a flat disc of silicone. So to make a bag, you'd want it to be a bowl. But of course if you pour it into a bowl, you'll end up with a spherical-ish disc of silicone that's flat on top, because it all pools to the bottom. So your next attempt might be to put one bowl into another bowl, and then pour the silicone between the two bowls. That way the top bowl fixes the problem of it coming out like a flat disc. The silicone is sandwiched between the two bowls, and so you end up getting a shape that looks like the bowl on the bottom. Progress! That's closer to something that can hold water. (Someone just told me that the shape wasn't actually the hardest part. The hardest part was materials. Dragon Skin was just one component. She said it was for the spine, whatever that means. But it wasn't the primary material, which needed to feel right and be easy to work with. I'll just note that here and continue on where I left off above. Basically, it needs to feel like skin, not rubber.) But to get something that can actually hold water, you need it to be something closer to a flask shape. You could imagine a bowling ball inside another, smaller bowling ball, and then pouring the silicone inbetween the two and letting it sit. Question: How do you get the silicone out? The silicone is now wrapped around the inner bowling ball. Hmm. Once you solve all of those problems, then you start to focus on the dynamics of man-woman interaction and anatomy. That requires a mold which you can shape very precisely. I believe they ended up sculpting the molds out of clay, then turning it into something stronger through a process I don't understand. To get the silicone out of the damn molds, they needed to invent a whole contraption that was like a giant lever. It would hook onto the inner mold and pull real hard on it, and pop! The whole thing comes out. It'd be totally impossible to pull it out with your bare hands. Then you run into problems like, there are bubbles in the material, so this needs to be done inside a vacuum chamber to get all the bubbles out. Finally there's the whole problem of putting a bow on it and making it look nice. You need packaging, a manual, and a reliable velcro strap that won't leak water. It needs to look professional. And all of this needs to be scalable so that when you suddenly get 200 orders because your vagina hot water bag went viral, you can fulfill those orders in a reasonable timeframe and get paid. There's a bunch of funny stories from that era. The postal delivery people got super curious about what we were up to. (At this point they'd moved into an actual building, not the family house.) One day he found an excuse to come in, strutting around with a big smirk on his face. Then next time they went to drop off the packages for delivery at the post office, the lady there was like oh, you're the people that make the sex toys! They were like yeahhh, that's us. It was a very interesting experience. It's a shame the business ended up folding due to lack of financing for all the production issues.
alainchabat 4y ago
Love your creativity! Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project: It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.
- Loughla 4y ago
  >but other people can also check what they have. breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com? What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.
  - ldoughty 4y ago
    Not the parent poster .. but... I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on games, etc.
    - _andrei_ 4y ago
      Well, then these could work: - collectiblesquare.com - mystuffpage.com - sellsomecrap.com
- pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
  yawnshoppe
- SamBam 4y ago
  Is this just for bragging rights, or like a sharing website? The site neighborgoods used to do that, for sharing tools, kayaks, whatever.
- Tyr42 4y ago
xingped 4y ago
Dang dude, love your creativity! Let me know if I can contact you for some personalized domain suggestions for ideas I have but cannot come up with domain names for?
- _andrei_ 4y ago
  Hey, sure! Check my profile for contact.
rafaelm 4y ago
13 hours after your comment, 57 of the domains you've posted so far have been registered today. Only 6 were already registered. Nice! I would like to know how you came up with these, they're pretty good.
dang 3y ago
10 months later - the following SEO spam came into the HN inbox this morning (actual inbox, not the spam bin): How is your day today? Hope it's good. Sorry to inform you that your website orgasmatron5000.com is highly inactive on top search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing, etc. That was one obscure in-joke...

_andrei_ 4y ago

Posted more on a different thread not to spam this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675510

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

All taken by squatters in 3.. 2.. 1...

CodeSgt 4y ago

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is something that, to my great shame, I've always struggled with. Any recommendations for improving in this area?

rileyphone 4y ago
https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine/ https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becomi...
anticristi 4y ago
I can't find a good reference, but there was a "standard" process for being creative: Step 0: Get yourself in front of a paper or whiteboard. Eliminate distractions. Step 1: Get all of the BS out of your head. Whatever comes out. Do not try to discuss, assess, etc., just get it out of your head. Step 2: Take a step back and start assessing. Is there anything valuable? What if you pair things together? I heard people applying this to ideate on a new start-up, brand, domain name, etc.
- Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  That's brainstorming, basically; just come out with ideas and say "yes and" instead of "but", save any judgments and but what ifs for later.
coffeeblack 4y ago
On YouTube search “John Cleese on creativity in management”
- latexr 4y ago
  Or check out his book “Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide”. It’s pretty short and the contents are pretty much that video.
foobarbecue 4y ago
Take long showers or baths and let your mind wander. Do sports where you're alone for a long time, like running or surfing.
chillfox 4y ago
Buy a thesaurus, then use it.
- airstrike 4y ago
  or visit thesaurus.com
dj_mc_merlin 4y ago
Drugs. Bad for generating ideas, but makes your ability to generate them when you're sober better.
- dspillett 4y ago
  Sometimes now, if you are careful about dose. It can free the doubts and writers block. Hence the phrase a few write-y friends of mine like to repeat: write drunk, edit sober. Or to put it a little more prosaically: you can edit a bad page, you can't edit a blank page.
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

xcambar 4y ago

> you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. This is the problem, not the solution.

deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

rdrey 4y ago

Your domain ideas are pretty good. You could sell your creativity as a service. 50 bucks for 3-5 name options for someone's side project, if you're that good at coming up with them you'd save everyone some time.

dannyw 4y ago

> messingwithyourmind.com Yoink, thank you. Seems perfect for my new email.

mdrzn 4y ago

Literally all already squatted.

mritchie712 4y ago
I think OP owns these which is why they posted this
- _andrei_ 4y ago
  Not true at all.
ntoskrnl 4y ago
Not all -- orgasmatron5000.com is still available! I'm surprised, I thought that would be the first one to go.

_andrei_ 4y ago

*Dropped some more (~120) here:* https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.

valleyjo 4y ago
yucktastic.com - wonder what would be on such a site ha
- bell-cot 4y ago
  Products that were inspired by Nickelodeon's green slime?
  - Izkata 4y ago
    Green slime twinkies: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-06/2/14/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane02/sub-buzz-7843-1464893394-2.jpg https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-06/2/14...
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- dylan604 4y ago
  a web forum for Amazon users to discuss the products they received instead of the product the ordered
- addandsubtract 4y ago
  /r/TIHI (Thanks, I hate it)
andai 4y ago
Did you make these manually, ie. with your imagination? Good stuff.
- 4y ago

sillysaurusx 4y ago

Thought no one would notice the orgasmatron5000 eh? I’m onto you. My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job, so that brought back memories. Sadly the popularity dried up when their YouTube video stopped being recommended as much. It was a real DaVinci-workshop type operation. I’m still amazed how much logistics went into it. Also art ability and sculpting. You have to be able to make molds, which are the inverse of the shape you want to cast. It’s really difficult.

dash2 4y ago
I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Shape of the part that interfaces with the guy's anatomy? I wonder what types of problems? How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?
    - sillysaurusx 4y ago
      Bingo. I wasn't involved directly, so unfortunately this is a game of telephone. This was also back in 2012 through 2015, so it's been some time. But here's my understanding of it. Suppose the problem is to make a silicone bag that you can fill with warm water. That wouldn't be easy, but it'd be much easier. To make something like that out of silicone, you have to pour some material into a mold, and let it sit. (I think the material was called Dragon Skin, but I'm not sure.) Think of it like cooking pancakes: You could imagine pouring this silicone into a frying pan and letting it sit, and you'd end up with a flat disc of silicone. So to make a bag, you'd want it to be a bowl. But of course if you pour it into a bowl, you'll end up with a spherical-ish disc of silicone that's flat on top, because it all pools to the bottom. So your next attempt might be to put one bowl into another bowl, and then pour the silicone between the two bowls. That way the top bowl fixes the problem of it coming out like a flat disc. The silicone is sandwiched between the two bowls, and so you end up getting a shape that looks like the bowl on the bottom. Progress! That's closer to something that can hold water. (Someone just told me that the shape wasn't actually the hardest part. The hardest part was materials. Dragon Skin was just one component. She said it was for the spine, whatever that means. But it wasn't the primary material, which needed to feel right and be easy to work with. I'll just note that here and continue on where I left off above. Basically, it needs to feel like skin, not rubber.) But to get something that can actually hold water, you need it to be something closer to a flask shape. You could imagine a bowling ball inside another, smaller bowling ball, and then pouring the silicone inbetween the two and letting it sit. Question: How do you get the silicone out? The silicone is now wrapped around the inner bowling ball. Hmm. Once you solve all of those problems, then you start to focus on the dynamics of man-woman interaction and anatomy. That requires a mold which you can shape very precisely. I believe they ended up sculpting the molds out of clay, then turning it into something stronger through a process I don't understand. To get the silicone out of the damn molds, they needed to invent a whole contraption that was like a giant lever. It would hook onto the inner mold and pull real hard on it, and pop! The whole thing comes out. It'd be totally impossible to pull it out with your bare hands. Then you run into problems like, there are bubbles in the material, so this needs to be done inside a vacuum chamber to get all the bubbles out. Finally there's the whole problem of putting a bow on it and making it look nice. You need packaging, a manual, and a reliable velcro strap that won't leak water. It needs to look professional. And all of this needs to be scalable so that when you suddenly get 200 orders because your vagina hot water bag went viral, you can fulfill those orders in a reasonable timeframe and get paid. There's a bunch of funny stories from that era. The postal delivery people got super curious about what we were up to. (At this point they'd moved into an actual building, not the family house.) One day he found an excuse to come in, strutting around with a big smirk on his face. Then next time they went to drop off the packages for delivery at the post office, the lady there was like oh, you're the people that make the sex toys! They were like yeahhh, that's us. It was a very interesting experience. It's a shame the business ended up folding due to lack of financing for all the production issues.

alainchabat 4y ago

Love your creativity! Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project: It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.

Loughla 4y ago
>but other people can also check what they have. breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com? What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.
- ldoughty 4y ago
  Not the parent poster .. but... I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on games, etc.
  - _andrei_ 4y ago
    Well, then these could work: - collectiblesquare.com - mystuffpage.com - sellsomecrap.com
pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
yawnshoppe
SamBam 4y ago
Is this just for bragging rights, or like a sharing website? The site neighborgoods used to do that, for sharing tools, kayaks, whatever.
Tyr42 4y ago

xingped 4y ago

Dang dude, love your creativity! Let me know if I can contact you for some personalized domain suggestions for ideas I have but cannot come up with domain names for?

_andrei_ 4y ago
Hey, sure! Check my profile for contact.

rafaelm 4y ago

13 hours after your comment, 57 of the domains you've posted so far have been registered today. Only 6 were already registered. Nice! I would like to know how you came up with these, they're pretty good.

dang 3y ago

10 months later - the following SEO spam came into the HN inbox this morning (actual inbox, not the spam bin): How is your day today? Hope it's good. Sorry to inform you that your website orgasmatron5000.com is highly inactive on top search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing, etc. That was one obscure in-joke...