Just deployed Hotsuto.com!

So this is the resurrection of a product I built (and made a couple hundred off of) years ago, but had to kill because I built it in a VERY expensive way.

So it'a back now!

I learned a bit more about using NoSQL databases, and that real WHOIS lookups are expensive at scale. So I've found a way to do a series of other lookups to check if a domain is being used at all. This sadly results in some false positives (a domain appears to be available but isn't) I'm working on getting that better and hope to be able to in the next couple.

I also learned how to implement Firebase authentication, which is sooooo much easier than rolling my own. I totally recommend it for time crunched indie hackers.

Revenue comes from affiliate links to domain registrars and from selling WP hosting packages.

Yeah, it was a very fun project to build, and I'll be making improvements to it sporadically when my schedule permits.

I hope you all can get some use out of it!

This is very much a side project