[btown]

Buried in here is a fascinating musing on "Market-making Small Databases" - "Imagine a Substack for databases - an easy tool for creating, maintaining and publishing databases with the ability to restrict parts or all of it behind a pay wall. Pair it with the ability to send email updates to your audience about changes and additions..." It's worth a read in full in the original article.

One of my favorite small databases is https://hiregoats.com/ - it's a simple site showing goat herds for rent (for clearing brush in a sustainable way, etc.), monetized with at $35 listing fee and nothing else. There's no e-commerce, no attempt to insert the site into the transaction or funds flow, no bells and whistles. Certainly this doesn't scale to other niches where suppliers are less incentivized to pay a listing fee, but I'd love to see this kind of thing be more common, and incentivize people to curate.

[fbdab103]

I was quite amused when I went to the goats page to see they are expanding into other markets. They now have a sister site of https://hiresheep.com/

[tomcam]

Damnit I need to register hirequokkas.com and hireibexes.com immediately before one of you sharks beats me to it

[Gordonjcp]

"unsoliciteddikdik.com" is available. You know you want to send someone an unsolicited dik-dik.

[tomcam]

That was perfect. You win HN for today.

[btown]

Much less inventory, though! But it's cool that they're starting somewhere - they have no need to feel sheepish just because their other site is so much more goated.

[2h]

uBlock Origin blocks that site for some reason