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I buy domains and then forget about them only to renew them once a year for aspirational reasons.

Its kinda like seeing my family at Christmas once a year.

It beats the FOMO of thinking about a good quirky name, and then seeing someone take a (close) variant of it years later. I think it feels like a word game - but with a reward you can keep.

I still have no fucking idea what to do with saving.cash and it's costing me $500/year which is financially ruining me lol but I'd rather starve and keep the domain name. I'd never forgive myself for selling it. It's literally saving cash. It can't be anything other than what it is.

How about a site which parses your credit card / bank statement to find out where you're spending money and provides tips to save cash based on that spending (which could be sourced from community submissions + voting)

E.g. I buy supermarket gift cards from a slightly obscure site which sells them at a 5% discount. Super easy way to save a few hundred dollars a year. The hardest thing was discovering that this was an option.

Hey this is a great idea. If you want to talk more about it my contacts in my profile. Would love to hear more.

If nothing else, you can put up a static page on the basics of Boglehead-ish finances; a copy of The Flowchart from /r/personalfinance would be a great low-effort stop-gap.

Good idea, thank you.

While you wait for an idea, how about a global savings account comparison directory?

This is good. I was thinking of this but with things like comparing savings accounts, mortgages, and adding different financial products over time.

It should be an adventure game where a character named Cash is missing and probably in trouble.

Maybe it can be like that vim tutor game where you save him by encountering different financial scenarios that you have to solve and overcome.

+1 to that idea! Something like: “you earn this much every month, and these are your recurring expenses, long term debts and goals, and oh yeah an immediate financial challenge. In what accounts would you put hard earned dollars?”

Yes I love this. I've been messing with building a 3d renderer in c++ compiled to wasm rendered to a canvas with webgpu, and then playing with the [0] Bobba source code, combined with something like SpacetimeDB would be sweet. Would be really valuable to collect common financial issues and situations from people and work with someone who knows finance deeply to figure out how to express these challenges in a way that don't seem too open-ended.

[0] https://bobba.io/

That doesn’t sound very fun.

I say forget the finance angle. Go for a straight up adventure game where you have to save the hero, Cash, from tragedy.

The irony! May as well turn the page into a piece of abstract art saying "the domain 'saving.cash' has cost me hundreds of dollars every year". A meditation on having to spend money to earn money, if you will.

Hahahaha I didn't even see the irony until I read this, that's hilarious. That's a great idea, I'll do that this weekend.

Maybe a running total that updates daily?

Like domain cost per year / day, and accumulating it daily?

Exactly!

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