Show HN: Slide Domains

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So your startup basically buys domains that may seem "good looking" to you, and the site displays an everlasting auction ticker for them? How is this innovative?

It is clearly not what I’d consider start-up - I went into it knowing I’ll likely not recover my underlying costs. Also, I’ve not claimed for it to be innovative in any way.

It was simply me playing around with something new, and instead of throwing it in the bin, putting it live on a domain.

I’m not a fan of the typical domain auctions where it’s a bidding war, I quite like the idea that hopefully some people might get a decent priced domain with this type of selling, and it may give them some kind of inspiration.

Thanks for the comment :)

Those people would have gotten the exact same domains at the fraction of the price - eg. im TLD domains are available on name.com for $12.99... What you did was soup up a lot of domains for price boosting, not "inspiration". I consider this type of business to be a damaging force on the internet.

I'm not sure what slides mean but there appear to be a singular bug: "1 Slides".

Thanks, I'll get that fixed :)

"Slide" was just a play on that fact that the domains will drop (slide down) in price each day, until they're sold.

So the number is just a count of how many times they've done that so far.

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