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I clicked through via PH. I did a few searches and left.

How about an option to send me updates on my query? That way, you can capture my email and notify me when the query results have changed.

Maybe that's not useful but I'm wondering if there are ways to engage your visitors more long term.

Also it's not quite clear -- is it .com only? That's fine if it is but it might be nice to add .com to the results (but fainter or something).

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Yes! You're absolutely right. Probably my biggest mistake was not thinking about retention before launching on Product Hunt. I suspect that your experience matches that of most visitors through Product Hunt. Your suggestion about query updates may be a good one to try, and I will brainstorm other ways to make the product give more long-term value.

And yes, it is .com only for now (plans to add other TLDs soon). Thanks for the feedback that this could be clearer.

Well supporting more TLDs would be great. I know we just had that big discussion about the downsides to .io domains on HN (but I actually am reliant on a .io domain -- domain squatter is on my .com and not sure when I can afford, if ever, to buy it).

So more TLDs would be great. Although really, it does seem like .com is the most important. I'd just make it clearer it's .com only as now I'm going to go back and do some more searches as that is useful actually that is only .com.

Sorry, that is like pro and con feedback on more TLDs.

Yeah. I agree on both counts, though. I think .com is still far more important, and adding other TLDs shouldn't take away from its prominence. For the short term, making this super clear is a good way to go.

One last thought -- you could add 'app' as a potential suffix to the search term.

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