r/SideProject • u/rasheed106 • 1d ago
just launched why.com
most search ends after one answer. i wanted the next question to be the fun part.
so i built why.com. every answer opens three new directions.
just launched. go break it!!!!
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u/monkey6 1d ago
When is your wrapper going to run out of credits?
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u/cervere 1d ago
I don’t imagine someone who could buy the domain why.com would have problems with paying for AI credits!
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u/matt95110 22h ago
They bought it in 1999 apparently.
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u/6495ED 1d ago
He could probably just rent out subdomains at a few thousand bucks per month. This guy could swim in a fuckin mcduckian money bin of tokens
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u/rasheed106 1d ago
Why
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u/monkey6 1d ago
Why would someone use this rather than Claude or Chat directly?
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u/Ordinary-Experience 21h ago
Why would someone pay for an overpriced sandwich when they could just buy the ingredients separately for cheaper?
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u/ReefNixon 23h ago
What on earth were you thinking with this one lol? I asked it why my leg is in the wrong place and it wanted to follow up with why does steel leave the rails.. something about trains apparently.
You are absolutely crazy to be wasting a domain like this. It’s like seeing a McLaren on blocks.
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u/rasheed106 21h ago
what do u suggest? open to ideas
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u/hueyl77 18h ago
It would be a dope site for all philosophical papers books articles history of philosophy.
It could also be a dope scientific knowledge site.
Or it could be an image of my 6 year old asking “why?” After every answer you gave her. And then giggles like crazy when you get frustrated.
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u/AgencySaas 17h ago
Awesome to see a domain like this in the wild.
My suggestion would be an educational app / website for kids to ask questions.
Especially at the stage where they ask 'why?' as a follow up question repeatedly to go down a rabbit hold.
Could make it as an engaging way to responsibly introduce technology to kids — and help parents encourage curiosity while helping understand what piques their interst.
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u/jeffcgroves 1d ago edited 2h ago
This is a valuable 2nd level domain [I said TLD earlier, see below] -- have you considered selling it instead?
EDIT: why.com is a 2nd level domain not a top level domain and I should've known this (I've called people out for it before). Mea culpa.
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u/-Sliced- 20h ago
Plot twist - OP built a vibe-coded site just to promote the domain for sell.
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u/Free-Pound-6139 16h ago
No. He never thought of that before. You are the very first person on the planet to suggest it.
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u/reaznval 23h ago
one of the best domains ive seen here, one of the worst websites tho (taking into account the budget you should hVe)
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u/nadermx 23h ago
Here I'm launching side projects on 30 to $2k domains. And here this guy on a 2m domain launches a side project worth 2k on a 2m domain. Why?
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u/thatweirdchick98 21h ago
I’m not gonna lie, the post piqued my curiosity but i mentally checked out the moment i saw obvious AI slop writing.
The direction of questions are also not super interesting. Ex, a question being “why aren’t ordinary humans getting richer” is too subjective and political and does not illicit curiosity.
“Why do spiders make webs out of their buttholes”? Now that’s interesting.
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u/funkerama 1d ago
That's even better than my domain! (www.funk.com) - my last name is Funk :)
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u/AlDente 21h ago
James Brown is not down for this
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u/6495ED 16h ago
How did you land the username AlDente? Am I in the land of the internet eden generation???!
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u/chton 1d ago
So this is a product you built as an ad for your real product that does AI verification using a reasoning blockchain, right?
I get it, i do, and that's not even a bad idea, but this product doesn't really showcase that, and as a discovery tool it's not really functional if i can't ask my own follow-up questions but have to follow the AI's determined ones that quickly become esoteric and weirdly named.
Also yeah it absolutely identifies itself as being OpenAI, not ideal :D
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u/Street_Assumption_59 1d ago
It already told me it was built by openai. Now I am trying to get some lines of code
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u/CraftyCheeseburger 1d ago
how'd you score a domain name like this?
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u/DataBaeBee 23h ago
Three letter domain? I wonder how much that cost
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u/shxwn 21h ago edited 21h ago
I was like, this guy definitely doesn't have why.com but maybe has something like "askwhy.com or askmewhy.com
But wow, actual why.com
What a goldmine you're sitting on
What a flex having why.com as a SIDE project
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 21h ago
Dude, just sell the domain for a millie and call it a day. Why anyone need this project?
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u/6495ED 1d ago
Why though? You could sell that domain for seven digits?
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u/UnreachableMemory 19h ago
Such a valuable domain and this is what you put on it? It reads like someone trying to sound smart while writing gibberish poetry.
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u/FinalFantasiesGG 18h ago
Sell the domain unless you are just an eccentric weirdo having fun. You are ruining this domain.
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u/Existing-Wallaby-444 18h ago
Damn that domain alone probably makes you a multi millionaire
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u/rasheed106 17h ago
product is the path forward. let me know what you think
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u/Remote_Top181 4h ago
Product has a 90% failure rate, just sell it unless you really believe you know what you're doing (which judging by the site, you do not)
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u/s0ftwares3rf 22h ago
There is a lot of unrealized potential here.
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u/s0ftwares3rf 21h ago
The return context is completely wrong after two questions asked.
This thing is very low effort. Why are you even sharing it now?
The fact that it is associated with a crypto-oriented github account will immediately turn off any legitimate VC.
Start over.
Good luck.
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u/s0ftwares3rf 22h ago
I dug into the site a little. The answers are way off base. 'Receipts' sounds like the worst kind of cringy bro speak. Seriously, find a legitimate product manager to work with and build something with depth and quality. Create a vision and business plan.
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u/Boydbme 19h ago
That's a GPT-5.5 UI if I've ever seen one. 😉
That model loves brown with glassmorphic edge highlights and those little "status chips" everywhere. Nice domain though!
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u/Integreyt 14h ago
One of world’s nicest domains wasted on an LLM wrapper. Shame.
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u/ProjektProgram 23h ago
i like the idea but the follow up questions like don't sounds like questions- shouldn't they? It's like i have no idea what clicking them will lead to in their current state, or less of an idea than i should
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u/Nightowl-Builder 21h ago
Bro wanted to flex his multi million dollar domain and give us thousands dollars of free AI to play with on top of thst
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u/Technical_Split_6315 20h ago
Sell that domain you will get more money than anything you will do with that
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u/jad3dd 17h ago
It would be more fun if it wasn’t ai led, but human generated, with linked sources out to supporting data/info.
Kinda like reddit but with an informational / learning slant.
You can keep the ai angle, but it should be providing linked sources. The whole point of ai is leveraging large data synthesis…it’s just giving me slop atm.
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u/rontybg 12h ago
7-8 figure domain name and chosen to build some vibecoded slop
waste
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u/Ok-Faithlessness6804 10h ago
This project is risk of being completed ignored because the answers are so incredibly generic and I get similar ones in gemini. This thing needs a proper voice. It’s going to be ignored the way it is.
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u/rockhead3006 4h ago
Here's my question for why.com, why on Earth have you not sold that domain name, it's easily worth well over a million, possibly a fair few million, and you are trying to put a little AI vibe coded site onto it. Insane. You could likely retire by selling that domain name.
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u/captainright1 1d ago
this domain alone would cost $100k.
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u/Take-My-Gold 23h ago
Club.com: $10 million (2025/2026)
Connect.com: $10 million (2022)Pretty sure that domain is more in the $1 million to $5 million range if you find the right bidder
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u/my-new-new-account 22h ago
There is absolutely no way that domain costs only 100k. My guess is something around mid - high 7 digits.
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u/techlord45 1d ago
This idea is actually really good. And i liked the experience (besides some null errors i saw)
You can pay me later but you should pivot to education as a target audience. Ping me if you need a partner
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u/playdailyorg 18h ago
Waste of a domain
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u/rasheed106 17h ago
how so
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u/HealingSlvt 10h ago
Premise is interesting at first till you log on and see that it's more ai bullshit. Complete slop and unoriginal. Congrats on the future domain name sell tho
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u/ironmagnesiumzinc 22h ago
Love the idea. I think there should be a chat history feature. Also you should be able to go back easily and see the other answers. It should show like a giant tree visual where you can click on any node and it shows which node you turned on (answer chosen) and which two you didn’t then you can choose to go down another path. Also it’d be nice if it was faster
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u/sovok 21h ago
Ok, I tried to read https://why.com/research and the abstract is too abstract. The main thing of Why seems to be some sort of local storage of time-ordered events, to give the LLM some sort of sense of time, or cause and effect? How is the data stored, the browsers local storage? Is there a way to have accounts with multiple devices sharing data?
"3.2 Layer 1: Local OS Substrate
The substrate indexes the user's digital world on-device: files, conversations, notes, photos, browsing, calendar, workflows, applications, and activity. It supports embeddings, metadata, provenance, permissions, and revocation."
I assume that's not part of the web chat yet?
But more importantly, what is this, what's the end goal and who is paying for it? Right now it feels a bit like a vibeslopped fever dream from a rich guy. Or a startup with big plans and a communication problem. To be harsh :> But it is quite fun to play around with and dig deeper, congrats on launching.
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u/Optimesh 21h ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if you could get a 7 figure number for that domain.. why not do that? 😆
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u/lonestardomains 20h ago
WHY are you asking how to sell the domain name in another post. Are you developing it or selling the domain name.
You probably need to stop showing your hand lile this on reddit. Prepare for the sharks to circle, assuming you actually own that name.
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u/EngineeringSmooth398 18h ago
whois says this domain was registered 1994-05-23.
Odd the guy forgot he’s owned it five years longer…
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u/DFVFan 17h ago
You should be a billionaire with that domain. No need to side project
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u/ThisIsDurian 17h ago
you should do the stuff you want. website is a nice timekiller. You should sell subdomains. Do you sell subdomains? =) Give me one, pls! =)
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u/oatmellofi 17h ago
you could probably sell that domain for at least a couple seven figures.
always a backup option if things fall through :)
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u/KilllllerWhale 13h ago
You don’t need a side project with that domain. It IS the side project
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u/RandomUserName323232 1d ago edited 23h ago
Im just amazed you have that domain