matt1

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   by matt1 15y ago

   Yep, the figure is going to vary person to person. For example, I'm married and my wife brings in an income and will be able to provide health insurance once I jump ship, so that number is lower for me than it would be for someone without t
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   by matt1 15y ago

   I'm a sole founder and just want to add that if you're looking for the independence that a multimillion dollar acquision brings, you should also consider alternative ways to achieve that end. Specifically, consider whether building one or m
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   by matt1 15y ago

   Your search query must contain at least three letters; there is no max.
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   by matt1 15y ago

   Hey Pete. The duration of the A/B test depends on several factors. I recommend checking out this calculator on Visual Website Optimizer to get a feel for how many you need: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ab-split-test-duration/
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   by matt1 15y ago

   Yep, there's a technical reason for it. I'll work on a resolution for it and make a post here and on the mailing list when its available.
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   by matt1 15y ago

   This is a really excellent idea. If you (or anyone reading this) is interested in categorizing the 2,000 modifiers like this suggests, please drop me a note: matt@leandomainsearch.com -- I'd be more than happy to compensate you for your eff
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   by matt1 15y ago

   Thanks -- I track these errors and fix them within a day or two. It's a side-effect of how the search works. Over time the number of results that throw this error should drop close to zero.
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   by matt1 15y ago

   There's nothing stopping squatters from registering these domain names other than the fact they would have to register so many. That's part of the beauty of it. Re: making it a paid service -- how would you charge?
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   by matt1 15y ago

   There's a huge drop off in affiliate revenue from GoDaddy to the next most popular registrar. Making Namecheap default would inconvenience most the users and cause a substantial drop in my revenue. I appreciate where you're coming from, but
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks. Me too :)
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Glad you like it -- I built it to solve one of my own major pain points: it's very hard and time consuming finding quality available domain names for the products I build. As far as the search bar positioning, I'll play around with it and s
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks -- you can change the preferred registrar by clicking the 'change your preferred registrar' link below the red registration button.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Traffic is less on weeks when it's not featured on HN :)
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Hey, I actually figured out a way to fix this and will implement the change within the next several days. False positives should drop from around 10% to around 1% within two weeks.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    GoDaddy is the default because it's what most people use. You can change it by clicking 'change your preferred registrar' link below the red button on the confirmation dialog.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    1) Get ahold of a zone file listing all the registered .com domain names 2) Pick five common words 3) Scan the zone file, noting which registered domain names start and end with one of those common words. 4) Now parse those results and pick
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    by matt1 15y ago

    I actually A/B tested the impact of a light vs a dark design on the number of searches folks made and the difference was negligible [1]. Agreed through that the default order is something that can be optimized and tested going forward. [1]
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks -- I had someone proofread the post earlier and he mentioned that I didn't have enough sexy numbers. Like, why would I post a graph showing the average search duration had doubled? Why even bring it up? I responded that I wasn't tryi
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Yeah, no need to petition. Assuming the bug is fixed (and it sounds like pg is working on it), I'll post it again on Tuesday around 11am EST and we'll see where it goes.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks Jacques for the mention. I'm not too worried about my post; as others have pointed out this seems to be happening to a lot of legitimate submissions and that's the bigger problem. We can only speculate as to what actually happened wi
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    by matt1 15y ago

    I had the same thing happen twice earlier today. I hit a huge milestone on a product I launched on HackerNews about two months ago, spent a few hours writing a blog post about it and lessons learned, and posted it on HackerNews around 11am
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    Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search(leandomainsearch.com)

    29 points by matt1 15y ago|0 comments
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    by matt1 15y ago

    SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote / Boston I posted an internet marketing job on oDesk yesterday which might be of interest to some of you: --- I run a web-based timeline maker called Preceden ( http://www.preceden.com ), which helps people make
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    Why I’m Building Simple Tools to Help Market My Web App(mattmazur.com)

    3 points by matt1 15y ago|0 comments
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    by matt1 15y ago

    No, Lean Domain Search does not support other TLDs for the same reason you shouldn't use domain hacks: it degrades the quality of the domain name and confuses normal people.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Yeah, definitely avoid domain name hacks. It's a huge gamble and even if your product is successful, it probably would have been more successful with a better name.
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks. The multiple queries per search idea isn't a bad one, but not enough people have asked for it where it makes sense to implement it just yet. And as someone else mentioned, the results are already a bit overwhelming. Having 3,000 or
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    by matt1 15y ago

    Thanks larrys, that's some of the best feedback I've received. I encourage everyone to do this: find some premium domain names that cost $X,XXX or $XX,XXX and mix them in with results from Lean Domain Search and see if people really prefer
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    by matt1 15y ago

    "But now you're telling me that misspellings are actually a big problem? How much of a problem, quantitatively?" When you verbally tell someone about your site, how do you do it? Do you spell out the domain name? If not, people are probably
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    by matt1 15y ago

    A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domai