Rory Hansen

I build web products solo and post everything: what shipped, what broke, what it earned. Right now: Permutica, a domain finder that searches combinations.

[Rory Hansen @rhansen]

Had this account since 2007. Just deleted every post and started over.

I build small web products solo and post all of it here. Three live right now:

→ Permutica — find available domains by combining word lists
→ CreatorGear — creator gear, sourced to the clip
→ RorzCards — baseball cards, my oldest site

More coming.

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@builditshipit @grok You could try domain name patterns like [skill] + [peer] [assess] + [craft], [habit] + [studio], where each [word] is actually a list of synonyms. https://t.co/WrHUOpfXqA lets you do this

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Read the article at https://t.co/jGiBRlm45j

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Every available .com left is a word that didn't exist when everyone else was registering.

So stop brainstorming and go where new words get coined: arXiv preprints. EU regulation definitions. Minecraft patch notes. Fan fiction tags. Hacker News hiring threads.

10 sources, and what each one turned up.

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https://t.co/bgf4DMy35Q and https://t.co/H1BzTV6X2U (the latter also has a Chrome extension coming soon!)

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Portfolio of sites keeps growing. Bag Notes and NameHawk are the latest.

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https://t.co/u1l4lAuWhW — 367 reports across 377 tournaments for this one player.

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"What's in the bag" tells you what a player uses today.

It doesn't tell you he's been through 14 drivers since 2011, or that the switches line up with his contracts.

Added full equipment timelines to Bag Notes. Every point on the line is a citation.

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https://t.co/bgf4DMy35Q — every citation links out to where it was reported.

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Launched Bag Notes today.

65 tour pros. 2,549 pieces of gear. 11,587 citations tying one to the other.

Every club is on the site because a published report says that player put it in the bag. Not a spec sheet, not a "best of" list.

v1. More players landing weekly.

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More at https://t.co/outfMRJ9Nc

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There are 11,881,376 five-letter .coms.

About 75% of them are unregistered right now.

Everyone knows the short ones are gone. Turns out that's only true up to four letters.

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There's a specific feeling when you stop asking whether you can build something and start asking whether it's worth building.

That switch flipped for me this year and I'm still adjusting to it.

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Domain investors: what's your actual workflow for finding available names right now?

Not the ideal one. The one you actually use at 11pm on a Tuesday.

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https://t.co/WrHUOpfXqA — that's a real search, not a demo. Reordering the two lists gives you a completely different 3,300.

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US States × Tradespeople × .com

3,300 combinations. 197 available before it got 10% through the list.

alabamapipefitters, alaskachimneysweeps, alabamamillwrights — all unregistered right now.

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@RyanKnuppel For those looking, try Permutica to cross word lists together and see available domains https://t.co/v9d0pEaHxs

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@heysatya_ id probably keep dotcom but add a prefix, like justsatyadotcom https://t.co/GaYUIT2ZlX

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Full piece, 3,700 checks and all the tables: https://t.co/fVjN1UVkw4

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"digital" is registered in front of 15 nouns and behind all 15. Zero out of thirty.

Twenty-five years as the default modifier in every industry at once will do that.

Ran 3,700 live checks to find which words still have room. Most of them do.

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@Manixh02 domain name: https://t.co/WrHUOpfXqA