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Comment by jonplackett | Hacker News Reader

I have now reached the point where I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.

I’ve only bought one domain name since then and got the project out!

I think the domain name is your reward for finishing your minimum viable product.

I am doing the same. I won't invest until I have a working MVP. Naturally, finishing it afterwards is challenging with little free time, but it can be slowly progressed.

Thanks, you should have told me this 13 years ago, before I lost 10k+ in domain names :-D

This is how I learned the lesson myself…

> I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.

Me too. I learnt it after 6 expired domains

I learned after 600. Or did I? :)

I worked with a guy like you. He had a seemingly pathological need to one-up someone even when it was just a blatant lie.

I worked with a guy like that too, but even worse, you wouldn’t understand

I worked with a guy like that... oh wait, that guy is me

I think of this as the "garage band problem". Imagine a bunch of teens deciding to make a band. They come up with a name, make t-shirts, even get the cover for the bass drum -- but how much did they actually play?

Personally, I'll snag a domain if it's really good -- like one word or a proper combo of words, spellable, etc... I won't set it to renew, though.

I love this take

Good idea. Also - putting side projects on subdomains of your main domain / using cloudflare tunnel - Tailscale funnel to run services from your computer

never bought a domain until i had the first production version ready

So pessimistic

Release without a domain name, and wait until the product is popular before even spending the time to choose a name...

Yea that's safest, validating then building an idea should be a priority.

haha I like that

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