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Deep South Ventures
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Deep South Ventures is a personal blog at deepsouthventures.com about startups and career. Since 2017, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “I Sell Onions on the Internet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
We’re a domain name driven web development incubator headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, and are inspired by industries that focus on purpose over profit. We build slow, not in lackadaisical, but in calm & measured. You should build this way too : ) It’s been an astonishing journey. There’s so much
Most-linked posts?
- I Sell Onions on the Internet16 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2019-04-23
- Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-04-23
- Part two, I sell onions on the Internet4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-08
- Building things that do [ just one thing ]2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-16
- Window shopping for expired Domain Names [2017]2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
- Give Me Grunt Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-15
- How on earth I became an entrepreneur2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-18
- I don't spin plates; I manage hot tubs (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
- Slow Down and Wander2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Oh true. The author was also promoting domain name driven businesses [1] so I was mostly replying to that idea and other thoughts I had to sound off on the topic :p https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
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on “I Sell Onions on the Internet”Submitted I Sell Onions on the Internet as a story · 3015 points
HN discussionLoved this story. Your writing style is succinct & speaks to the heart. You really should write more essays if possible (found only 4 here: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/essays ). - A captivated reader
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on “I Sell Onions on the Internet”Submitted Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship as a story · 396 points
HN discussionGreat read! The blog has another post which I found personally interesting -- Slow Down & Wander [1] [1] https://www.deepsouthventures.com/slow-down-wander/
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on “I Sell Onions on the Internet”Submitted Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name as a story · 306 points
HN discussionWas it this[0] guy? Previously discussed on HN[1][2]. [0] https://www.deepsouthventures.com [1] https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
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on “The Perils of an .xyz Domain”Submitted Must ride mule to and from work location as a story · 254 points
HN discussionOh wow. I'd read that post before but didn't make the connection to this one. Well worth a read as well: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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on “Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship”Submitted I Sell Onions on the Internet (2019) as a story · 233 points
HN discussionIt was an expired domain picked up at auction, but the related story of VidaliaOnions.com: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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on “Domains for the Rest of Us”Submitted Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name as a story · 232 points
HN discussionbut does this really matter in a world where people basically Google every business anyways to get to the homepage? I feel like everyone around me will Google whenever they hear about a cool app, website, store, product etc. or we're charting online or talking on Zoom and they'll just send me the link directly I'm not sure what the purpose of a URL is anymore... unless you're this guy [1] [1]: https://www.deepsouthv…
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on “Domains for the Rest of Us”Submitted How on earth I became an entrepreneur as a story · 220 points
HN discussionI agree with you, but I also love when people intentionally go the other way and come up with something cool. Like that Vidalia Onions guy.[0] [0]: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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on “Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet”Submitted The dude that built DudeRanch.com as a story · 153 points
HN discussionI think this is a much better article about this from the same guy: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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on “Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name”Submitted Clearing the Cache of My Life as a story · 5 points
HN discussionReminds me of the article [1] "I sell onions on the internet"... There's a market for everything I guess... [1] https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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on “Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry”Submitted Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy a Great Domain Name as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI used to agree with the author, but having read a fair number of Peter Askew's writings, I've changed my mind. https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/ Domain names are powerful, cheap marketing that only gets more powerful over time as links are acquired. It can be a huge advantage in driving organic traffic to your online business. Paying someone who speculated on the domain's value early on isn't…
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on “Fuck Domainparkers”Submitted Building things that do [ just one thing ] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGood stuff. This author builds businesses off kind of serendipitous domain name purchases. Find a domain, build something useful on it, grind for a while, you have a business. He also wrote: I Sell Onions on the Internet [0] - He buys the vidaliaonions.com domain and works with local onion farmers to sell them. Has been linked at least a couple times on HN. Want to build a side business? Just buy a great Domain Name…
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on “Must ride mule to and from work location”Submitted I sell onions on the Internet (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee if this essay I wrote (on buying & developing on neat .com domain names) helps: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
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on “How on earth I became an entrepreneur”Submitted Part two, I sell onions on the Internet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeter here.. I mention how I valued the duderanch.com domain in this essay I wrote a few years back, if you're curious: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/dude-that-built-duderanch-...
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on “How on earth I became an entrepreneur”Submitted Part two, I sell onions on the Internet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNote that this is the same person from https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter... . (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 )
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on “How on earth I became an entrepreneur”Submitted I Sell Onions on the Internet as a story · 2 points
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