[HN Gopher] Must ride mule to and from work location
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Must ride mule to and from work location
Author : eightturn
Score : 145 points
Date : 2020-06-30 15:18 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.deepsouthventures.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.deepsouthventures.com)
| tbran wrote:
| Good 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
| [1]_ - I like this idea because it can give you a steady stream
| of ideas, puts some constraints on you, and you 'll probably be a
| lot more committed if you plunk down a few hundred or thousand
| dollars for a domain!
|
| [0]: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-
| inter...
|
| [1]: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
| [deleted]
| elbigbad wrote:
| I saw the onion article and ordered 5lbs of Vidalia onions from
| vidaliaonions.com on a lark because I had never had one. Never
| again, maybe I just don't have a taste for them, but loved the
| site and was very happy with the service and product in
| principle. :D
| thih9 wrote:
| > At first, I seeded all the jobs myself
|
| What does this mean?
|
| I really hope this isn't generating nonexistent job offers and
| accepting applications from real people.
|
| Perhaps this was copying offers from other boards, which would be
| relatively harmless.
| eightturn wrote:
| author here.. when I started, I already had years of experience
| in the dude ranching industry, so I simply reached out to them
| for jobs to post. ie, I seeded, in other words, posted the jobs
| myself.
| Zhenya wrote:
| I went to each of the listed sold domains.
|
| Working:
|
| --AppalachianTrail.com [SOLD] |
|
| --BearSpray.com [SOLD]
|
| Broken/parked:
|
| --CowboysAndIndians.com [SOLD]
|
| --WeBuyLand.com [SOLD] |
|
| --Ziplines.com [SOLD] |
|
| --LambChops.com [SOLD]
|
| Thought that was interesting.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow
| to put it mildly.
|
| The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a
| firearm on the AT, can be boiled down to "the laws are
| complicated, here's a lawyer joke and 2 links".
|
| Regardless of your stance on guns, an article making an honest
| attempt to address the question of carrying one might, just
| maybe, talk about the laws of each of the 14 states the trail
| passes through and address the question of the various federal
| jurisdictions the trail passes through as well. Maybe you'd
| also try to find some hikers who have tried to carry guns and
| interview them.
|
| The food and water articles are similarly shallow. You could
| write a chapter or more on each.
|
| The article on menstruation is just outright copied from
| another blog, with attribution, to be fair.
|
| And there's nothing about the current COVID-19 situation.
|
| Honestly, it's a lot of low-effort unmaintained content that
| doesn't add much, if anything, to what you can find with
| several minutes of googling. It's the kind of site that I
| assume is peppered with ads (or maybe affiliate links, I didn't
| look too hard) to make a couple of bucks.
|
| Anybody looking for actual information about the AT would be
| better served by any of the following:
|
| appalachiantrail.ORG <- The ATC
|
| whiteblaze.net <- AT hiker forum
|
| thetrek.co <- formerly appalachianTRIALS.com
|
| https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ <- This is what
| actual niche content looks like.
| eightturn wrote:
| author here.. oddly, I sold AppalachianTrail to fund my
| purchase of DudeRanch. If I still owned AT, I woulda hiked
| the whole thing, recorded the experienced on the website, and
| then maybe hired some ex-hikers to provide guided
| recommendations for the trail for a small fee. Something like
| that.
| eightturn wrote:
| author here. I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something
| neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.
| Zhenya wrote:
| That one seems like a good one. Where can I go to zipline in
| my area...
| yourapostasy wrote:
| I really like these descriptions of long-tail businesses that
| connect people with lower and lower economic friction, it
| fulfills the original wondrous promises of the Net that filled my
| head when I was first exposed to it.
| walrus01 wrote:
| I occasionally check random common nouns as domain names.
| Somewhat surprised that burrito.com hasn't been used by somebody
| to redirect to a third party food delivery service (Uber eats,
| doordash, skip the dishes etc) as a portal for finding Mexican
| food delivery near your location.
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| how? this is an amazing domain.
| walrus01 wrote:
| My only guess is that somebody is sitting on it and trying to
| sell it for an unreasonably high asking price.
| seph-reed wrote:
| On the profit-type scale going from "doing a service" to
| "extortion," sitting on domains you have no use of feels
| much closer to the extortion end.
| celticninja wrote:
| That's a lot of hyperbole. Just because it is more useful
| to someone else doesn't make it extortion.
| seph-reed wrote:
| Closer to the extortion end of the gradient. I don't like
| to think of adjectives as binary on/off. IMO, they're
| fuzzy bell curves, overlapping with each-other, with
| plenty of space in between.
|
| Calling this a "service" would also be a hyperbole I
| think. It's somewhere in between.
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| That's the thing... just forward that site down to
| UberEats's site for 2 hours with an HTTP Header of "X-WANT-
| MORE-MONEY-CALL-ME: phone number" and you'll sell it
| walrus01 wrote:
| Without any content or a portal on the site, I wonder
| what the traffic numbers really look like right now. How
| many persons are manually typing burrito.com into the
| browser address bar every day? I've no idea.
| raunometsa wrote:
| I love nice, humble internet businesses like this!
| reaperducer wrote:
| I love it when "rural" and "IT" come together. Reminds me of a
| job listing I came across when I was on the beach a few years
| ago.
|
| It was for the government of the state in which I lived at the
| time. It was listed in the IT area. Essentially, the
| responsibility was to test and maintain computers and their
| webcams in transmitter sheds at the top of the tallest, most
| remote mountain peaks in the state. They were part of some kind
| of state-wide radio network, presumably for forest rangers,
| firefighters, BLM, and similar types of agencies.
|
| I didn't apply because the job listing included requirements
| about the ability to handle strenuous hiking, previous experience
| camping for a week or more at altitude in winter, and various
| types of outdoorsy skills which I simply don't possess. All I
| could imagine was spending a week walking up a mountain with a
| couple of servers strapped to my back in deep snow. Not my scene.
|
| And sadly, because it was a gub'mint job, it couldn't pay extra
| for the hardships involved.
| chickenpotpie wrote:
| Another example that is my favorite post on hackernews:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
| eightturn wrote:
| thanks so much chickenpotpie (author of both here).. these
| long form things are challenging to write, so nice comments
| like this make it worth it.
| bibinou wrote:
| Hey Peter, you write really well!
| mauvehaus wrote:
| Which state? Asking for a friend ;-)
|
| In all seriousness, I'm assuming a western one. If the BLM is
| involved, it's probably not an eastern one.
|
| Honestly, that sounds like an awesome job.
| walrus01 wrote:
| The WISP last mile, small ISP industry sees a lot of the venn
| diagram overlap between tech and rural. Lots of places out
| there in remote parts of the American west which have only one
| wisp available, or none, and will benefit greatly from
| starlink.
|
| You see lots of creative stuff out there. Small solar powered
| hilltop sites. 60cm dish antennas bolted to trees.
| myself248 wrote:
| Oh yeah, I used to work with a guy who left our suburban
| telecom equipment installation company, to take a position
| maintaining remote cell-site equipment up north. Got a company
| truck and a company snowmobile.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| There are (were) an amazing number of old, reliable, remote
| systems around that need attention. My first job was with a guy
| who used to program and maintain the 'computers' that ran the
| California canal locks and pumps. They were paper-tape operated
| mostly-mechanical systems installed when the canal was dug.
| walrus01 wrote:
| The telecom tower climbing industry sees some of this.
| Mountain top sites that need a high clearance 4x4 in summer
| and a snow cat to access in winter.
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Government jobs _can_ provide hazard pay. They just don 't
| always. They should also provide compensation for having to
| work weekends and holidays or non-standard shifts. I'm not sure
| of how every state works, but at the federal level in the US
| federal employees are actually _hourly_ workers, even working a
| standard desk job. There is a cap on the total compensation
| they can get in a year (see secret service members who maxed
| out their pay with OT taking Trump on trips in his first year),
| but if you hit that you 're making pretty good money.
|
| Of the states I have worked in as a state employee or knew
| people who did, it has been mixed. Some hourly some salaried,
| some have both. White collar jobs (which IT would fall under)
| were often salaried so that may present issues in getting
| proper compensation for a job like you describe.
| vageli wrote:
| > Now, sure, from the outset, I could have viewed this idea from
| a defeatist attitude, that being, "What? I'm gonna try to compete
| with Indeed, SimplyHired, Monster, and the like? They're VC
| backed heavyweights... I have no chance."
|
| It's _something_ to hear others battle with a similar set of
| demons as myself. How easy it is to get in one's own way. What do
| I have to lose?
|
| This guy's story reminded me of the person selling onions via the
| internet (vidaliaonions.com). [0] Turns out it's the same guy!
|
| [0]: https://onezero.medium.com/the-dot-com-don-meet-the-
| domain-p...
| swinnipeg wrote:
| It should remind you, it is the same guy!
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