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Buying a new domain is not the way to start your side project

rinas on May 30, 2021

πŸ’‘ When an idea strikes, the very next thing to do is buy a domain πŸ˜… I do this a lot and started to slow down recently. You take a shower and th...
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rinas

Found this post by @madza about using sub domains. That's probably the best way to do it.

ie, start working subdomain in your main domain and then move to a separate if/when it demands
dev.to/madza/do-you-use-subdomains...

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Mike Healy

I bought a general purpose domain for this reason recently.
Smaller projects can just use a free subdomain on that one now.

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rinas

nice trick! may I know the domain name?

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Mike Healy

Sure. It's bytebox.dev
Went for something generic and techy

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

You are not alone at buying domain names prematurely.

The answer to that trap is that we need to develop planning skills.

I found this article from @siddharthshyniben very helpful

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rinas

Just notied @siddharthshyniben is from same town as I am!

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Siddharth • Edited

Really?

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rinas

Yup, Kannur!

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rinas

Good read, saved πŸ‘Œ

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Junxiao Shi

I put everything on subdomains.
People find my content via search, then bookmark it.
Which domain it's on doesn't matter.

I do have 4 top level domains, to provide a level of separation.

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rinas • Edited

This is right way to go I think. Is it always on the subdomain or later moved to a separate one?

I should also write more to get results from SEO πŸ˜… I don't get much traffic from there like you do.

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Junxiao Shi

I keep websites on subdomains, so that I never pay for increasing number of domain renewals.

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Amr Elmohamady

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rinas

That's a great way to start and build projects

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Zaw Htut Win

Side projects means creating project in Heroku or AWS free tier. And creating a repo in Github of course. Domain name can come later.