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thanks Alex (author here).. that domain article was one of my first, so I was (and still am) trying to find my writing voice. whatever that means.

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Don't sweat it. A runaway hit like the onions piece is like catching lightning in a bottle. It's not really something you can plan and, so far, I haven't found a formula where you can reliably recreate it to any degree.

(I've had two posts do about a tenth as well on HN as your onions piece, both on different blogs of mine and that didn't result in follow-up posts on those blogs being similarly successful. So my opinion is somewhat informed by firsthand experience, fwiw.)

thanks.. just enjoy sharing this domain name world as I see so much opportunity there for small builders to compete with big corps.

Feel free to post some of your stuff to r/GigWorks. I'm the mod there and I also run r/ClothingStartups and I am always actively on the lookout for "tipping point" style ideas where a small thing makes a big difference and can be done as a microbusiness, which is smaller than a small business. Small business is typically defined as like 10 to 100 employees and I am looking at tiny teams of more like 1 to 5 people as my target audience.

I was also born and raised in Georgia, so I just loved your onions piece because I'm from the Deep South. For health reasons, I will never again live in the Deep South, so I like nostalgically visitating via internet from time to time.

I may, at some point, post some of your stuff myself on r/GigWorks, but I'm a one woman show here with too many irons in the fire, so lots of stuff either takes me forever to actually get around to or just never happens even though I would like to get to it. Sometimes, life just keeps getting in my way.

for your nostalgia, here's a video that the GA Dept of Ag just produced on our farm.. Aries (farm owner) is in vid (I'm not in this one).. notice the domain at the end : ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oNolfKfgc

Thanks. It took me a bit to get to it, but I've watched it.

I am something of a fan of onions. They are good lung support, but can be somewhat hard on the gut. Vidalia's have always been my favorite onion because they are so mild, so they are easier on my touchy gut.

It's one of the reasons your article caught my eye.

Best of luck with your endeavors, both online (finding your writing voice) and off (selling onions, or whatever it is you do out in meat space).

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