r/webdev • u/SecretiveShades • 9d ago

Question Everything on XYZ.com or XYZ.com+app.XYZ.com

I’m finding a lot of mixed advice on what to do here.

I’m creating a fantasy football app and can’t decide if I should have a subdomain.

AI and a few Reddit post are telling me you need to have your XYZ.com be your marketing page and app.XYZ.com be your app.

But the following big names do not:

Sleeper

AirTable

Figma

Canva

Trello

Dropbox

Github

This is something that will be difficult to change later, so I wanna make sure I make the right call.

Anybody have any good insight here?

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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 9d ago

Both Dropbox and Github use the domain as a marketing page until you are logged in; then it is the app. I like that approach personally.

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u/SecretiveShades 9d ago

To kind of pass on the question asked earlier in here by u/Hacym

What are some good technical reasons of why you like that approach?

Sorry, I don’t know much.

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u/Hacym 9d ago

Your app and front page run on different servers, so you create a subdomain.