Again from the ‘wish it existed’ > I can’t be the only one who’s thought of this > what’s a great domain for this project, camp. WhereWereTheyThen.com. I don’t have it listed for sale because part of me thinks my ongoing attempts at learning to develop web apps is going to dovetail nicely with AI api’s in the next year or so.
But considering we’re always hearing and reading about successful people in their prime, don’t you want to know where they came from and how they got there?
This would be a search engine that combs the archives and, using AI, builds a history of someone’s career… Where they were born, went to school, their first companies etc. etc. and displays it in a timeline of images you could click on to take you to sources.
AI failed me in a quest to build a decent graphic representation. But it would look something like this, where when you hovered over any part of the timeline there would be an associated headline.
How can you connect people providing a service to folks needing that service, as a middleman, a platform, without having a way to vet the people you’re recommending? It’s a giant problem. A lot of companies do it themselves, full background checks. Others integrate with a third party, for example, Checkr (now there’s a domain I can relate to), Sterling (SterlingCheck), GoodHire, Checkmate (.tech, ouch).
Again, from the ‘wish it existed’ category. A Wikipedia-like site devoted to a female-centric history of the world. Her Story of the World! This would be a large project. Probably best represented by a university or well-funded non-profit.
The idea here is a device or app for measuring your power consumption. A post that blew up on Hacker News recently called “
It’s kind of simple for me. I think about what I do as a service business. Say you had an idea for a company and hired someone to look for a name and domain for it. At the corporate level you’re 
My obsession with domains eventually settled into a kind of side hustle. I’m down to an hour or so a day, mostly because I taught myself enough python to be able to build scripts that check the drop every day for names I might like. Then I occasionally get lucky enough to not have any competition for that name and win it at DropCatch or SnapNames for around $59. But nowadays, anything worth having generally ends up in auction, and with players who are paying a lot more for names than makes sense to me. So I’ve been having some fun looking for names that help ‘protect’ the names/brands I hope to sell some day. An example might be getting (years later) GrowingTv.com to go with Growing.Tv, or Webtern.com to go with Webterns.com (Isn’t this a great name for an online intern recruiting company?) and selling them as a package.
Domaining can be addictive. It was for me. After that first big (for me) sale, I became obsessed with domains. It became a real time suck and I really wouldn’t wish it on anybody. But the upshot is that I know quite a bit about them. Where to find them. How to track them. How to buy them.