Hacker News Reader

Comment by alexduggleby | Hacker News Reader

We are looking for names right now, so I'm looking forward to giving this a test run. (We are using trello at the moment for that purpose).

So here are my impressions/some suggestions:

- I don't mind registering an account myself, but I want my team to be able to contribute without creating an account. A "magic" sharing URL would be great (or maybe Google auth, since that's what we use on trello). We like trello because we can have almost everything in one tool.

- It would be helpful if the tool could check if the twitter account, facebook page and G+ page are also available.

- Since we are in the EU we like checking a bunch of other endings as well (.de, .at, .co.uk,...). I see your tool checks those as well, but it would save time if I can enter one name and it checks all my specified tlds.

- there's a bug somewhere that makes the whole list disappear for a couple of seconds and the re-appear again.

View on HN

Thanks for the feedback.

Your first idea is is a great suggestion actually. I'm not too clear on how exactly I would implement a sharing url while still keeping privacy levels high but I'll definitely look into it.

My assumption is that any monetisation will come from the small number of "power users" who create lots of searches and invite people into them. Therefore, the less friction there is for non-power users the better I guess.

Twitter, Facebook checking etc. is the next feature I will implement. I just wanted to release as early as possible to get some feedback.

I spent quite a while thinking of various ways that the UI would work without arriving at any concrete conclusions.

The drawback of presetting domains is that sometimes you want to make a suggestion which is tied to a particular domain. For example, a user might suggest "easi.ly". In that case, the tld is part of the name and would only apply for that specific suggestion.

I'm not a designer and I'm not sure how to retain flexibility of suggestion while gaining ease of use.

Haha. That's not really a bug (assuming we're talking about the same thing). I made it filter the list of suggestions as you type in the box to try and make it easier to see if a suggestion has already been made. I guess perhaps I should remove it since it seem to be confusing people?

Thanks for checking out the product.

Privacy: I think a url with a long enough random identifier would be sufficient and is often used in web apps to share content.

Multiple TLDs: Since the tlds are quite short, I would keep the name on the left and include one column per tld (with the availability icon). If the user enters the name with the tld then only that column shows availability and the others have a "click here to check availability" symbol.

Maybe the app could learn what I like searching for automatically? E.g. you enter foo.com then foo.de, foo.ch, foo.at etc. Each time there is only one line 'foo' and four column (com, de, ch, at). The next time the user only enters a name it automatically checks them all.

Bug: You're right that is what I'm talking about and I didn't recognize I was filtering the list. Maybe simply adding "List filtered by 'xyz'" would clear that up.

Great ideas. Thanks again.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com