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http://sideprojectors.com
Have you got a side project? :)
It's a modern take on domain parking (I know I know) that I'm using for my own ~50 domains.
I will most likely also be re-working on SideProjectors - a marketplace for buying and selling side projects.
https://www.sideprojectors.com
I am also about to launch HN+ (Create your own HN!)
Which is a modern take on domain parking.
All the domains I've purchased over the years, I haven't had time to develop them, but also didn't like the traditional parking pages. Newsy generates a content-aggregation site for given set of keywords related to your domains. It's automated and you can add your own ads.
Back then Flippa was probably the only dominant online marketplace for digital businesses.
It’s a big claim I know but I’m proud that the marketplace still is thriving and since then there has been dozens of similar marketplaces popped up. Also in the past few years it’s been so much easier for anyone to start online projects with various nocode tools and all.
Can’t say how impactful it has been, but I’m happy how far it has come.
It works great. I don't use Cloudflare email routing service but use something else. But I did a manual test with Cloudflare and it worked really well (thinking of changing it actually).
It creates a content-aggregator site for your domain based on keywords important to your domain with a bunch of features related to building the traffic, monetizing etc.
But I digress. One of the features that I built was to allow users to send and receive emails using the domain names. This became an important feature once the site grows to become a bit more like a community (where users are submitting posts, comments etc) and there needs to be a way to engage with the userbase. It's also important for people who want to sell your domains.
The two specific features I built was
1) Using your existing GMail to send and receive emails with your custom domain 2) Forwarding your email to another inbox.
The email hardening advice given in this post is great - I've also added some of these and allow users to make changes to their DNS records directly.
I'm also looking at the number of projects that I have built that got nowhere, so I'm also part of the problem. And with these projects, I tend to shrug off and say "well, that was a good experience".
But a "good experience" at $60M price-tag doesn't sound right.
I couldn't talk properly in certain situations. I was too self-conscious. That meant my communication was poor at workplace. I was too nervous presenting in front of execs and senior leaders.
On the other hand, my friend was fluent and smooth. We both had same roles. After another poor presentation, my friend gently told me "Everyone wipes their butt the same way."
It's a free tool to read & review research papers together with your colleagues. You can annotate, draw and comment on papers you upload. It's a tool that I wish I had when I was doing my research and super excited to finally work on it!
- A pretty famous one - gail.com - people mis-typing gmail.com but it gets a lot of traffic!
- I once hosted none.com.au domain - the user told me that people mis-type "nine.com.au" (nine.com.au is a TV Channel 9 website partnered with Microsoft - used to be called NineMSN?)
- A user I know also had the exact same domain name as another very popular site, but had ".net" TLD and was receiving ~8000 visits per day. He put a simple google ads on it and took a nice chunk of passive income.
- Linode Ubuntu - Vue - Laravel PHP - PostgreSQL - Tailwind
That's it. Keeps me focused.
I remember when I was in primary school, you will find these propaganda papers on the streets telling South Koreans of how corrupt their government was and urging them to defect to North. Apparently, North Korea would send balloons filled with these propaganda messages. South would do the same to North.
Then there was a TV show once a year where separated families in North & South re-unite for a holiday. They were separated during the Korean War and the two governments allowed these families to be found and meet for a few days, before they were separated again. They hadn't seen each other for ~30 years so were young and only remembered just a few bits of information. These TV shows made EVERYONE cry.
- I post my projects on SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - it's a marketplace for selling side projects, but you can also showcase yours as well.
- I use Newsy - https://newsy.co - and create content aggregators about my topics related to my projects - it gains SEOs and traffic and also finds users to sign up to newsletters and updates. Then I reach out to them.
- I use Tash - https://tash.app - and use my Twitter account to get followers and also get leads.
It also lets you quickly search for available domain names related to
- baby names - animal names - planet names etc etc via templates.
If you think it's visually stunning without being informative or just pure information without attention-grabbing visuals, then you'll fall on either side of the hill.
Then there are other factors including your target audience, copy-test, sentiment, color combinations etc.
I've build many landing pages in my life time and I am not sure if I still get it. If you are optimizing for HN-audience, I would say it also requires a different strategy (e.g. demo first without signing up?)
It has all the features you are looking for in a content aggregator/curation tool (and some more).