Am I Trying To Solve A Problem That Doesn't Exist?

I’m Sid, an engineer at Namefi, where I’m building tools for domain sellers.

The pain is real, but I think the daily catalogue might solve your inventory problem more than the buyer’s problem. A flat $99 price removes negotiation friction, but it does not create demand. Most founders start looking after they already have a company or product idea.

Before building the marketplace, I’d take your three strongest domains and try to identify ten companies for each with a specific reason to want that name. If those companies do not care, a larger catalogue probably will not fix the underlying issue.

We built Namefi Outbound to help run that buyer-fit test by researching possible companies and explaining why each might be relevant. The responses, or lack of them, should give you a much stronger validation signal.

The interesting question isn't whether people would pay $99 for a domain—it's whether they trust your curation enough to stop searching elsewhere. I'd keep validating whether customers are buying discounted domains, or a consistently high-quality selection that saves them hours of hunting through marketplaces.

peer just-launched too. pricing model isn't the risk imo, it's whether curated-daily matches how founders shop. nobody's scrolling a domain feed hoping to bump into their next company's name. we search once we already have the concept and need a name that carries it. so the closest thing to what you're building isn't ungrabbed, it's the namecheap search bar.

of the 10 you listed, which one would you sell first if you had to pick, and does it map to a use case that already exists?