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I gotta say, this platform is a real breath of fresh air. I feel welcomed and encouraged to do my best work. Definitely worth supporting and contributing to.

I recently discovered co2.observer and think it's a neat way to measure the carbon impact of your site so I'm integrating it into comp.actor 🪴

I'm building comp.actor, a domain name generator focused on finding short domains for people, brands, and projects. The MVP is close to ready so I'm opening up a preview for the next week starting tomorrow.

If you'd like to try it, please DM me and I'll send you a link tomorrow.

Trying to come up with a logo for comp.actor (short domain generator). The idea is a long object being compacted to a smaller one, with a subtle reference to domains ("www.") via the sideways W and dot. I'm still getting comfortable with designing so would love to hear feedback.

"If everyone made things they really liked, we'd have a lot more cool stuff."

zhangluyao.com/blog/make-something-nobody-wants/

Just bought the domain dl.tn. Not sure what I'll do with it yet but I love how short it is. Still waiting for an .on or .ton TLD 🤞

Manta ray diving off the coast of Hawaii ⛰️

I'm honored to have comp.actor included in the Read.cv newsletter! Thank you and I hope all of the new folks find some great domains 💛

Domain prices vary (sometimes wildly) so I like the idea of showing the price of available domains on comp.actor. Prices can't be guaranteed due to premium pricing not being posted by registrars but it'll give you an idea of the minimum cost.

comp.actor now respects domain length restrictions so domain suggestions outside allowed lengths (e.g. 3-63) will be omitted. No release date yet but it's getting close!

I've had a blast building Compactor, a tool that shortens words, names, and brands into usable domains, over the three months and am please to announce that the initial version is now live:

comp.actor

Give it a try and let me know what you think 🙂

I've been really enjoying the Arc browser and have been thinking about how to make Boosts easier to use for folks with no programming knowledge. What about a no-code mode with AI auto-fixing broken boosts? Here's a proof-of-concept I made over the weekend:

Product direction is hard. I want comp.actor to be free/cheap but its best features cost me money to run. They provide a better experience for the one-off domain search too. But I'm scared to charge $1-2 per query to offset the cost. It's hard to know what's reasonable to folks.

Experimenting with a domain valuation feature for comp.actor.

Working on the feedback flow for comp.actor

When searching for a domain, I often wonder which country ccTLDs are operated by and how trustworthy the ccTLD is. To help with this, I'm adding country names and a list of curated domains using the ccTLD to comp.actor.

I'm having a blast building comp.actor! Finding short domains for people, brands, and many other things is super fun.

I've gotten some good feedback on the comp.actor preview so far (thank you!). It'll be up for a few more days if you want to try it, just DM me. I want the suggestions to be surprisingly good so I'll be spending time improving those for the next little while.

I'm continuing to explore logos for comp.actor (short domain generator). I like this one because it feels unique while expressing compression and "www." for domains.

Almost ten people tried the preview of comp.actor over the past week and one even found and bought a domain from it 🙌 Thank you to everyone that tried it and provided feedback. I've taken it offline for now while I work on the next iteration.

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