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Kevin Ohashi
Personal blog · kevinohashi.com · on HN as ohashistartupsbusiness
Kevin Ohashi's personal blog at kevinohashi.com covers startups and business. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Ohashi's posts on domain names, including a list of about 24,000 available five-letter domains and his criticism of registrar practices. The comments cite or link the posts rather than judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-04-16
What Hacker News says?
I got my company's logo on Fiverr and wrote about the experience a couple years ago. Quite happy with the result honestly. It offended a lot of people then (feel free to read the comments), and probably still does today. But I've heard designers at $100+/hr down to Fiverr and they serve different purposes. I've been happy with both and disappointed in both types (and everything in between). I wouldn't hesitate to gi…
Comment linking /26/10/2012/how-get-logo-30
on “What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?”Submitted List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI did the same thing except with Fiverr (6 logos @ $5). I wrote about it and showed all the logos I received here: http://kevinohashi.com/26/10/2012/how-get-logo-30
Comment linking /26/10/2012/how-get-logo-30
on “The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design”Submitted GoDaddy Purchased the Domain Name Market Today as a story · 35 points
HN discussionhttp://www.kevinohashi.com/17/04/2011/other-24000-available-... 24000 5 letter 'brandables'
Comment linking /17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list
on “How to find a short domain name”Submitted How we designed our logo for $30 as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIt's a fun exercise. I've tried a lot of similar stuff before ( http://www.kevinohashi.com/17/04/2011/other-24000-available-... ). The biggest problem I ran into with n-grams was trying to evaluate what was good in an automated way. Using stuff like Norvig's data to try and weight became futile. Stuff like ededed.com would rank exceptionally high if you weight by frequency. That's a bad name. I tried not counting du…
Comment linking /17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list
on “Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains”Submitted 144 of the Biggest Websites using Godaddy as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAnother (mine) http://www.kevinohashi.com/20/04/2011/24000-domains-article-...
Comment linking /20/04/2011/24000-domains-article-postmortem-traffic-revenue-business-models
on “An example: being mentioned on Reddit”Submitted Is Facebook one of the Largest Referrers to Porn? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYou keep making these irrelevant personal remarks, without providing anything to back them up. >I've come out publicly against companies with bad business practices and pointed out flaws in the system. (For example http://kevinohashi.com/15/04/2011/domain-registrar-and-custo... ; Although I commend you for bringing these issues up, it's sort of hypocritical to criticize them about locking up and bumping up domain pr…
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on “How many .com domains are available?”Submitted Postmortem of a Successful HN/Reddit Post with stats as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI care very much about many things, especially that people get treated right. Domainer or otherwise. I think the system has to be fair. I've come out publicly against companies with bad business practices and pointed out flaws in the system. (For example http://kevinohashi.com/15/04/2011/domain-registrar-and-custo... ) I also have been freely providing tools for anyone to use to aid in their domain search since I go…
Comment linking /17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list
on “How many .com domains are available?”Submitted 2000+ potential brandable startup domains available to register as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think this was written up here on Hacker News a few weeks ago but it is relevant for this discussion and thought I'd link to it if anyone is interested. It is 24,000 five-letter domain names that are available: http://www.kevinohashi.com/17/04/2011/other-24000-available-... (I'm not the author but I bookmarked the site for some new projects. I didn't find anything that jumped out at me on a first pass but maybe so…
Comment linking /17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list
on “Finding And Buying A Domain Name”Submitted Reverse Engineering Startup Press: How and Why TechCrunch Covered My Launch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI looked for designers willing to take $5 in exchange for logo design. These were people willingly and publicly advertising their service. I didn't pay attention to region at all. I looked at the portfolios and if they weren't horrible, I hired them. Just because it costs nothing to me should have no bearing on this discussion. Do you get upset at Bill Gates for paying retail for his coffee at starbucks? business/wo…
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on “How we designed our logo for $30”Submitted The Hobbyist Business Model as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> they are a place many startups get stuck. Yeah sure, this is true. Anyone remember the dotcom swoosh era ( http://lekowicz.com/library/logohell/logohell.html )? Startups also get stuck on UI (custom, bootstrap, jquery-ui, yui), backend (node,ruby,java,groovy,php) and database (mysql,postgresql,redis,mongo). For most businesses the logo is just something that shows up in the top left corner of the website, it reall…
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on “How we designed our logo for $30”Submitted What I learned launching my MVP one week ago and 11,500 uniques later as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI studied 3 letter .coms as a proxy for the overall market. Domain prices haven't just gone straight up, they peaked in 2007 (funny enough when this article was published). http://kevinohashi.com/30/12/2010/exploring-three-letter-dom...
Comment linking /30/12/2010/exploring-three-letter-domain-name-values
on “The Man Who Owns the Internet: Kevin Ham's $300m Domain Empire [2007]”Submitted The Blackmail/Extortion Business Model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote up how I got TechCrunch to cover my launch. I didn't really have the connections or relationships. A big part was luck. http://kevinohashi.com/27/11/2012/reverse-engineering-startu...
Comment linking /27/11/2012/reverse-engineering-startup-press-how-and-why-techcrunch-covered-my-launch
on “Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup?”Submitted Exploring Domain Name Values - 5 years of sales data on 7 extensions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRe-reading Catch 22. I just finished The Geography of Bliss which was pretty interesting and a very fun read. I like to keep a list of books I enjoyed too ( http://kevinohashi.com/books if you're curious)
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on “Ask HN: What books are you reading currently?”Submitted Can I live and work from anywhere? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://kevinohashi.com/ Not too active lately but feeling like I should get back into it more. I also write more on the company blog about industry topics. Since it's a one many company, it often feels like the right place. https://reviewsignal.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Stuck at 80 Percent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internal (on-page) SEO Checklist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting Google Search Results to Rank in Bing? as a story · 2 points
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