Not that Yolk is showing up high in search results or anything, but Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, Dropbox, etc., all have (or didn't have) premium domains and are doing fine.
I am one of those not buying the "big idea" of Color (of course I can be mistaken). But I think that the fact that something like it already existed does not mean much. Search existed already when Google was born, for example.
What matters usually is execution and timing (and a little luck), and Color might have them, even though execution for now has not been that great. But with all the money they got they can fix it.
I don't get it, why this is on HN? If it's to show that there's no innovation in what color wants to do, it's pointless. It's not like only the idea mattered, and execution was not important...
Flagged accordingly, upvoted for sparing me the sleuthing.
I've gotten gun-shy about explaining my flags (even though I consider it polite to do so) because I keep getting downvoted for it. Which is baffling, since the spammers shouldn't have enough karma to do so, which means he either has friends in low places or this community REALLY wants to EXECUTE and SHIP so much that they cheer on non-contributing spammers with retaliatory downvotes.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 42.9 ms ] threadDropbox had getdropbox.com but not dropbox.com.
Songbird still only has getsongbird.com
I don't think this will be too big of a problem for them. Getyolk.com is shorter than all of those.
What matters usually is execution and timing (and a little luck), and Color might have them, even though execution for now has not been that great. But with all the money they got they can fix it.
EDIT: spelling.
Looking at the submitter:
user: georgio
created: 53 days ago
karma: 45
Only this link has been submitted.
No comments.
Hardly a contributing member of the HN community. I say flag it.
I've gotten gun-shy about explaining my flags (even though I consider it polite to do so) because I keep getting downvoted for it. Which is baffling, since the spammers shouldn't have enough karma to do so, which means he either has friends in low places or this community REALLY wants to EXECUTE and SHIP so much that they cheer on non-contributing spammers with retaliatory downvotes.
Who knows. Doesn't matter, but it's annoying.
[Edited a late night typo]