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I made an Android app to keep track of my domain name collections -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every

From the name (Every.ID), you can say that it aims to be the one app to keep track of everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc.

My end goal is to make it pluggable with API e.g. connect with your Steam account to auto-sync your game collection.

Unfortunately, since I'm doing it as a playground for learning new techs (I learned Flutter and Dgraph), the progress for the app itself is slow.

Fortunately, since I'm also a user (I use it often), it keeps being enhanced.




How does domain collecting even work? Don't you have to continuously pay in order to renew your domain ownership? Even if it's $5/year per domain, surely at some point you have to stop collecting.


You're right that the cost will accumulate.

I'm not a professional domainer, but "a guy with lots of ideas and no time". Every once in a while I thought of some cool idea, struck a name and bought the .com "just in case I have time to develop it".

I initially used Google Sheet to keep track, but it doesn't remind me of renewals, and some info I want to be dynamically updated.

Oh, another thing I use Every.ID for: keeping track of software purchases, esp. LTDs (Life Time Deals --- SaaS but you only pay once). It's literally a category in the app.




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