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There’s a meta story hiding here about owning the domain puter.com, and I’d love to know the history of this domains ownership.

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Puter.com belonged to my good friend (and now also an investor in Puter) Humberto (who is the founder and CEO of Rows.com). He told me about the domain and I immediately thought it would be the perfect fit for this project. He was very gracious and agreed to sell it to me (well, to Puter Technologies Inc. lol). The price was $25,000.

Another comment on here explains it very well: "It’s “pyu-ter”, like comPUTER! Puter dot com! Well done" This is why I loved it so much!

He has more domains available here: https://portotype.com/documents/domains/

> The price was $25,000.

Woah is this a serious project then? Seems like a huge investment for a fun side project

'To build a folly upon a fair bit of land is not to waste the land, but to occupy it for some short time in enjoyment' - Unknown

Never heard that before. It's a nice folksy bit of wisdom... except very few people in old Ireland or England could afford a fair bit of land, and even fewer could afford to build a folly upon it.

It started out as a side project but now I have investors and looking to hire! Let's see how far I can take it :)

What is the value proposition here? Why would somebody use this over... the computer their using to access your fake in-browser computer?

It unifies the Operating System with the cloud. Your local storage becomes irrelevant while at the same time you have full durability and portability of your environment on any device in the world.

Thank you so much! I couldn't have said it better myself :)

I think you should add a web browser and then it can work like a VPN too.

Pretty much the same as chrome os i guess?

But then in “userland”..

So you could use it on a chromebook as well.

I like the idea, and as PG often says the best ideas often sound crazy at first.

Glad someone other than me is trying I guess :-)

replit.com competitor, where user don't have to learn any UI?

I think more to the point, why would someone use this as opposed to a remote-desktop service from an established company like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, ...

This isn’t a Remote Desktop. This is a cloud file system which loads your files and js apps on the front end in a way that it looks like a remote desktop

Do you see positioning this say against a Citrix (IE: corporate desktop virtualization) or as a Google Apps alternative, (IE: students, consumers looking for a cross-device solution)? Or something else altogether?

It can be sold further, early electronic NFT :)

I don’t know anything about you two, and I don’t want to sound condescending, but… what kind of friend sells a freaking domain for 25,000 dollars to another friend? Or was that just some asset shifting between your companies, without any real money involved..?

The premise of the question assumes that $25,000 is an insane amount for this domain. I completely disagree and I'm very happy with the price I paid.

That’s already explained in the comment. The domain was sold to a company that now owns it, that the two friends jointly own.

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