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Discussion on: Do you own a domain name without a purpose? Let me give you a project for it!

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Jonas Wanner

Oh man, I own a lot of domains without a reason. One of them is dail.one. I've thought about building a suite of web applications like notes, calendar, e-mail client etc. which then would all be placed beneath this domain but it turned out, I dont have this much time on my hand so I stopped 😅

I also have multiple Liferay domains (liferay.space, liferay.tech, liferay.blog, liferay.us, liferay.at, liferay.ch). I work in a company which uses Liferay to create digital workplaces for companies and I thought it would be funny to buy some domains and do something cool, but I really don't know what I should do with them 😂 Any idea is appreciated :)

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

OK so these are some tough ones, I doubt I will come up with a sensible one but let's see!

dail.one

  • You create custom voicemail answer machine messages for people that are voiced by "Dail", a virtual AI, they are free, but if anyone ever needs support your whole phone tree requires you to press 1 varying amounts of times to get to the right department (Dial one!).
  • A URL shortener that only works for Daily Mail articles published on the 1st of the month.
  • You create a course called "Digital Access for Independent Living", you sell it to governments to get older people and vulnerable people online to help towards inclusivity goals.

liferay

  • You have a sunflower in a blacked out room. People send positive tweets to an account and every tweet adds 30 seconds to a UV light run time to give the plant some much needed "life rays".
  • A site dedicated to preserving the habitats of Stingrays and reintroducing them into the wild.
  • A site where there is a 24 hour feed watching a guy called Ray. Think Truman show!
  • A live feed of the sun with motivational messages popping up on the screen on how to live a healthy life.
  • Liferay.space - you set up a super powerful laser that people can control remotely. They can point it at a planet (solar system) using a star chart and send a message in morse code to that planet to see if you get a response.

I have to admit, I struggled as they are both super specific lol, I will see if I come up with a better idea as I am not happy with these yet!

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Tori

I love the sunflower idea from the positive tweets 🌻

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GrahamTheDev

I can be wholesome sometimes 😜🤣

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Eric Maddox

Wholesome as fuck!!