larval
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I've had a passive interest in domains over the last ~2 decades and made the most modest profits buying and selling here and there over those years. But in the last ~5 years I just stopped doing it entirely, I sold almost all of them and just kept one to make my personal projects around.
The method I used previously was to scour the auction sites and keep note of ones I'd want, then bid on them right before the auctions ended, as to not show interest. Welp, everyone does that and it was a consistent letdown to have it lingering in my mind for days only to have it bid out of my price range right when it ends... on top of that, the market itself just became too thin to warrant my active effort. The reality is I know what price I'm willing to pay almost immediately, so why don't I skip the 7 day auction and just get a notification right at the end of the auction when it gets the bid? Well, that's why I slapped together this thing.
I happen to tinker with another project that monitors stock prices (larval.com) and sentiment (top.larval.com), and it's generally where my hobby of buying/selling has gone in recent years... but, I recently realized it would be easy to repurpose that getup for domain auctions in the way I want, so over the last week or so I slapped together bid.larval.com.
I have it running during the workday in a background tab and I loosely pay attention to the notifications it finds me, which is the same thing I do with the other stock-related project. My use-case is looking for the first bid in the last 30 minutes, so that's how I set the defaults.
It's currently following godaddy (GD), namecheap (NC) and dynadot (DD) auctions, if anyone has other relevant sites I may add them.
URL = bid.larval.com
Just to be clear, there are no ads or trackers on this thing. I'm just compelled to periodically make stuff for fun outside of work, for my own sanity.
The method I used previously was to scour the auction sites and keep note of ones I'd want, then bid on them right before the auctions ended, as to not show interest. Welp, everyone does that and it was a consistent letdown to have it lingering in my mind for days only to have it bid out of my price range right when it ends... on top of that, the market itself just became too thin to warrant my active effort. The reality is I know what price I'm willing to pay almost immediately, so why don't I skip the 7 day auction and just get a notification right at the end of the auction when it gets the bid? Well, that's why I slapped together this thing.
I happen to tinker with another project that monitors stock prices (larval.com) and sentiment (top.larval.com), and it's generally where my hobby of buying/selling has gone in recent years... but, I recently realized it would be easy to repurpose that getup for domain auctions in the way I want, so over the last week or so I slapped together bid.larval.com.
I have it running during the workday in a background tab and I loosely pay attention to the notifications it finds me, which is the same thing I do with the other stock-related project. My use-case is looking for the first bid in the last 30 minutes, so that's how I set the defaults.
It's currently following godaddy (GD), namecheap (NC) and dynadot (DD) auctions, if anyone has other relevant sites I may add them.
URL = bid.larval.com
Just to be clear, there are no ads or trackers on this thing. I'm just compelled to periodically make stuff for fun outside of work, for my own sanity.