I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

"I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on TikTok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains."

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Startup Story

I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on TikTok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains.

tinyprojects.dev

Over the years, I’ve studied various validation techniques, and came to the realization that payment is validation. If someone gives you actual money for your thing, you’re onto something. A lot of people giving you actual money for your thing means your idea probably has legs.

Indiehackers

Marketing

People are known to be incredibly harsh critics on this platform. So even if 90% of people upvote there’s going to be someone who has an issue. It’s okay, hear them out, if it’s nonsense, be calm and reply diplomatically or just ignore.

Indiehackers

Skinner’s three key insights — immediate rewards work better than delayed, unpredictable rewards work better than fixed, and conditioned rewards work better than primary — were found to also apply to humans, and in the 20th Century would be used by businesses to shape consumer behavior. From Frequent Flyer loyalty points to mystery toys in McDonalds Happy Meals, purchases were turned into games, spurring consumers to purchase more.

gurwinder.blog

Psychology

Alas, social media has elevated the foolish. People possessing little in the way of expertise, and generally unwilling to change their assertions or goals.

Seth Godin

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