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Show IH: BoxedName.com – Ready-to-go names for your next startup

Hey Indiehackers,

This is a little weekend experiment. I'm curious to hear feedback from you all.

https://boxedname.com/

If you're like me, you've spent countless hours when trying to choose a good name for your startup / side project and struggled to find a good domain name. Often, we fallback to uncommon TLDs like .io... but I've personally felt the pain of having to carefully spell out a name and the friction that goes along with that.

BoxedName is an attempt to package up a ready-to-go name for people who want to skip this chore and focus on your startup rather than naming your startup.

on January 6, 2020
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    Hey Phil, love the concept. Actually working on something mildly similar myself. Your no-nonsense website aesthetics are quite refreshing! Keep us updated on how it goes. Thanks for sharing!

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    Really cool idea! I've been / am going through the pain myself. In terms of the value that you're delivering: $2500 for an Indie Hacker / startup can be quite steep. I noticed that if I spent one day really going for it I can come up with a few good names that have the dotcom available. They won't fit all your criteria but it's a good enough vs paying $2500, but not sure if all your names are going to be priced the same.

    In terms of the landing page: looks more like an article than a landing page to me. I'm not instantly engaged (while the idea is really good so this is doable) and I find it hard to find the call to action as it's in in text and at the bottom.

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    Nice idea, and interesting execution (is it a notion page?)

    One domain a day is a good concept, especially with the email list to re-engage

    Some thoughts:

    • Consider showing historic names and what they sold for
    • Add customer testimonials once you have some
    • Consider a referral scheme so people can earn a commission for referring a sale
    • I don't know if it's a cute idea or if it has legs. One challenge is that it will likely be hard to discover and engage people at the point of a buying a domain without paid search or extensive SEO where competition will be very high
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      Thanks for the feedback, all good points.

      Not a Notion page -- just a quick little minimal bit of CSS I wrote since I couldn't find a free HTML theme I was happy enough with.

      I did basically just write up the copy in Dropbox Paper and then was basically just trying to find the simplest way to put it on boxedname.com with minimal formatting/readability. Deployed via Netlify.

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    This is a great idea! Nice work.

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      Thanks for this!

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      Thanks for the awesome feedback -- really encouraging to hear! (screenshotted you here https://twitter.com/philfreo/status/1214718408828366853)

      Yes, curation is the name of the game.

      I am curious about what you mean by "it just doesn't apply to anything I'm doing". Basically, I thought of this name as a very generic name (like Google or so many other company names that mean nothing "on their own") -- a blank slate to mean whatever you want. Definitely not targeting the construction/saw industry.

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