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I have now reached the point where I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready. I’ve only bought one domain name since then and got the project o
by jonplackett 1y ago
I have now reached the point where I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.
I’ve only bought one domain name since then and got the project out!
I think the domain name is your reward for finishing your minimum viable product.
- geldedus 1y agonever bought a domain until i had the first production version ready
- jonplackett 1y agoSo pessimistic
- LanceH 1y agoI think of this as the "garage band problem". Imagine a bunch of teens deciding to make a band. They come up with a name, make t-shirts, even get the cover for the bass drum -- but how much did they actually play? Personally, I'll snag a domain if it's really good -- like one word or a proper combo of words, spellable, etc... I won't set it to renew, though.
- cpursley 1y agoI love this take
- cornfieldlabs 1y ago> I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready. Me too. I learnt it after 6 expired domains
- OldfieldFund 1y agoI learned after 600. Or did I? :)
- booleandilemma 1y agoI worked with a guy like you. He had a seemingly pathological need to one-up someone even when it was just a blatant lie.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoI worked with a guy like that too, but even worse, you wouldn’t understand
- hugodan 1y agoI worked with a guy like that... oh wait, that guy is me
- ratsimihah 1y agoYea that's safest, validating then building an idea should be a priority.
- mrgnw 1y agoGood idea. Also - putting side projects on subdomains of your main domain / using cloudflare tunnel - Tailscale funnel to run services from your computer
- ta12653421 1y agoThanks, you should have told me this 13 years ago, before I lost 10k+ in domain names :-D
- jonplackett 1y agoThis is how I learned the lesson myself…
- christoph123 1y agohaha I like that
- danjl 1y agoRelease without a domain name, and wait until the product is popular before even spending the time to choose a name...
- huncyrus 1y agoI am doing the same. I won't invest until I have a working MVP. Naturally, finishing it afterwards is challenging with little free time, but it can be slowly progressed.