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by goodside
6001 days ago
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The answer depends entirely on what kind of startup you're trying to make and who your audience is. If you want businesspeople and grandparents, having a snappy dot-com is crucial. If they're more tech-savvy, what they remember to punch into Google is a lot more important than the URL. From memory, I believe the domain for Scriptaculous is scripta.culo.us, but I would never type that into an address bar blindly. |
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For example, in FF once the awesomebar has your address then with sufficient use most addresses are only 2 or 3 characters away (6 entries shown gives a space of > 100,000 entries in 3 chars, way more if you include unicode addresses!). So if it's something I'm going to use often at home then I'd look at the opposition for a geek news site and choose a unique letter if possible (not s:slashdot, not d:digg, not h:hackernews, etc.). Of course if it's an Apple audience you don't need to worry about this particular effect but you get the idea. Um, where was I. Yeah, if you want me to hit your link when I'm on the road or using others computers as opposed to simply when I'm home, or if I need to tell the address to n00bs not just email/tweet it then don't go for the geeky "domain hack".