Ask HN: Alternatives to app.domain.com

1 points by osullip 8y ago ↗ HN

Hosting a marketing site on a different platform to an app forces the use of sub-domains to direct the user to the right place. (domain.com/dashboard is replace by app.domain.com/dashboard, for example)

We're not limited to using `app` for the sub-domain

A single function app could use things like: email.domain.com /Email provider trade.domain.com /Stock trading wallet.domain.com /Coin wallet

Have you seen any creative or fun names given to the sub-domain?

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troydavis 8y ago ↗

Make www and the apex domain resolve to the app, not the marketing site. For non-logged-in users (or if you want to, everyone), the app proxies / to the marketing site. For all requests, it proxies the handful of other path prefixes you use (beginning with /about, /tour, /contact, etc.). The user only ever sees one hostname.