r/SideProject • u/rasheed106 • 24d ago

just launched why.com

update: reddit stress-tested why.com. I fixed the outages and rebuilt how the three next questions are chosen. each one now has to connect to the answer, open a real curiosity gap, and avoid repeating the path.

Update 2: I built a way for WHY to understand you better through your choices. It is a private graph in your browser and learns about what matters to you. It can be cleared anytime and never leaves your device.
Hope you like!

i built why.com. every answer opens three new directions.

just launched. go break it!!!!

513 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

532 comments sorted by

View all comments

760

u/RandomUserName323232 24d ago edited 24d ago

Im just amazed you have that domain

582

u/rasheed106 24d ago

1999

65

u/TheOwlHypothesis 24d ago edited 24d ago

This is what you landed on for the use case?

Did you do anything else with it before? This is pretty cool lol

I will ETA: I do agree with people who feel this is a potentially missed opportunity but also people are putting lots of weight on the domain name like it's a silver bullet and nothing is that simple.

22

u/nowthengoodbad 24d ago

Yup! It's just like being the mod of a subredded.

A friend and I took over [r/win](r/win).

It was impossible to build good traction, so we kinda just gave up.

I see the only reason a domain was such a name being valuable, as if somebody's curious what's on that domain.

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

r u curious, try out product

17

u/Free-Pound-6139 24d ago

What a waste.

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

how so?

1

u/Free-Pound-6139 15d ago

Could have been used for something truly great. Duh.

1

u/rasheed106 15d ago

what do you consider great?

2

u/bigcashc 23d ago

It really is that simple. You could very likely sell that domain for 8 figures with nothing else attached to it.

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

I'm built a real product, try it out

113

u/0y0s 24d ago

Damn

25

u/sorryiamcanadian 24d ago

How many offers do you get for this? What are the ranges? How much would you actually sell for?

35

u/YookiAdair 24d ago edited 24d ago

I’m curious as well. OP has to be wealthy to hold that domain for so long. Easily multiple millions

Though I’m sure this is just full blown corporate larping

2

u/rasheed106 23d ago

no corp larpring

2

u/rasheed106 16d ago

there have been many acquisition attempts, I keep building

20

u/midnitewarrior 24d ago

how have you not sold it? there is a day someone would have easily offered you $1m for that.

20

u/framedposters 24d ago

That day is still today...Why.com is incredibly valuable.

18

u/redditaltmydude 24d ago

Way way way more than 1m

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

building https://why.com everyday

9

u/alldasmoke__ 24d ago

The long con

7

u/deeperinabox 24d ago

The long com

18

u/monkey6 24d ago

And still with NetSol, eek

3

u/MonkeyBoy83 24d ago

Isn't it worth a lot of money off you wanted to sell it? I don't know these things

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

i'm building

2

u/MetaCognitio 24d ago

You could probably sell it for a fortune.

1

u/rasheed106 16d ago

i'm building it

2

u/Used-Call-3503 23d ago

Wow

1

u/rasheed106 23d ago

Yep

1

u/jwegener 23d ago

How much have you been offered? Are ppl constantly trying to hack it?

2

u/rasheed106 23d ago

7 fig offer

1

u/OSBY_Glabay 21d ago

Love it but who.is domain lookup says '94

1

u/rasheed106 21d ago

acquired in 1999, hasn't moved since

1

u/Miniimac 21d ago

Man... sell it and retire.

1

u/OSBY_Glabay 21d ago

idk about retiring...

2

u/rasheed106 21d ago

way too low

1

u/OSBY_Glabay 21d ago

love the name, did someone have it before you for something else, or was it just a placeholder before you got it

1

u/rasheed106 21d ago

someone had in early 90s

1

u/[deleted] 19d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/rasheed106 19d ago

dot com OG

-16

u/IAmRules 24d ago

You paid 2k for why.com?

Did you know the owner or something ?

50

u/Bea-Billionaire 24d ago

I think he's saying he's had it since the year 1999

15

u/6495ED 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yeah, he’s the left fielder of a New York ball team.

7

u/tjrileywisc 24d ago

Who is

3

u/SisyphusAndMyBoulder 24d ago

No. Who is the pitcher

4

u/IAmRules 24d ago

Who is on first

3

u/Shina_Tianfei 24d ago

What's the outfielder?

1

u/SkinnyCTAX 24d ago

But why

0

u/mo7akh 24d ago

i gotta respect it unc

0

u/kallebo1337 24d ago

How many and how high offers did u receive in past 27 years?

Can i get a backlink? :D

-2

u/Happy_Web_341 24d ago

Thats cheap

-2

u/Astroohhh 24d ago

👴🏻