Instant Domain Search
October 18, 2005
At Y Combinator’s Startup School, most people I met got very upset when anyone mentioned Ajax or Web 2.0. It’s true the technologies behind the buzzwords have been around for years, but now they’re mainstream. The usability bar has simply been raised. I think if someone says they’re going to use Ajax in a Web application, it’s like saying they’re going to use HTML.
Some speakers encouraged us to focus on simple and useful applications. I was thinking about what could be done, and went so far as to look into some names for my potential projects (like goolicious). I have a del.icio.us account, but would like more powerful bookmark search, hence goolicious. Searching for available domains was frustrating, no matter which service I tried. So my application became just this—a better domain search.
Here it is: Instant Domain Name Search.
Let me know what you think: beau@hartshorne.ca.