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A List of My Creative Efforts

By Bryan Hadaway | Published April 4, 2011 | Need me to update this article?
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I have tons of ideas. Back-burner ideas, ideas I’ve tried and ideas I will try.

In this industry there’s little to no risk. It’s very cheap to try out an internet based idea. So, I tend to put the feelers out on lots of different ideas, no reason to put all your eggs in one basket, right :).

Unfortunately, I often abandon a lot of projects because they no longer interest me or they didn’t turn out to be what I wanted and so forth. Although that happens there is still potential and usefulness in some of these ideas to someone that may want to nurture them.

So, I’d like to highlight some of my live projects and their current status (in alphabetical order):

Bryan Hadaway’s Blog

http://bryanhadaway.com/ – Well, this is where we are at right now ;). See no reason why I wouldn’t continue blogging here ’til the day I die :).

calmest_ghostDESIGN

http://calmestghost.com/ – This is my web design website where I offer a large variety of web services. Should be around until I retire. If I’ll ever go the direction of having a team or a company to continue my business doesn’t seem likely, but who knows what lies ahead.

CSS / XHTML Websites

http://css-xhtml-websites.com/ – Because I already have my main design site I don’t really recall this website’s purpose, probably just felt like making it during my XHTML strict obsession. This is a prime example of something I made that really has no importance to myself any longer, but could be valuable to say an up and coming web designer. So this site is definitely up for sale.

FREEWebPlate

http://freewebplate.org/ – One of my most favorite projects. It’s a free and open source standards-compliant website template I created for anyone to use for projects or as a learning tool. I packed in some great all around tips for a good web design too. It’s not going anywhere.

GigDig

http://gigdig.org/ – The initial idea for this was essentially craigslist for only web and computer related stuff. I was a little hesitant to sale this off just because of the high quality domain name, but I’m not doing anything with it and it’s just sitting there. I’m actively looking for a buyer for this project.

GoGoMySpace

http://gogomyspace.com/ – MySpace layouts, graphics etc. A partner and I went in on this project together and we just missed the big MySpace boom. I currently have no more interest in MySpace whatsoever so this project is long abandoned and up for sale to anyone who still is interested in MySpace.

hengine

http://hengine.org/ – This is a essentially a cross between Google and DMOZ with it’s own twist. This service has amazing potential for usefulness and even monetization. It’s actually gotten too popular for me to handle on my own, there are thousands of submissions that I just don’t have the time to review. I have some ideas on the direction it should go. Mostly, I would like to bring investing partners into the project, but I might consider a buyout if the price was large enough and it was going into the right hands (as in someone that cares about people and making something useful).

MySpaceStarterKit

http://myspacestarterkit.com/ – This was aimed at individuals, bands, companies etc to get a professional setup on MySpace. This project is dead, again because I no longer have any interest in MySpace, up for sale to anyone who is.

needmyLOGO

http://needmylogo.com/ – My logo design website. That’s about it, I like it and it’s staying.

TidyThemes

http://tidythemes.com/ – Originally based off of FREEWebPlate, I wanted to make the WordPress version is how it came to be. Instead I went in a bit of a different direction. This one’s here to stay.

I have tons of other projects, here are a few others. We’ll see what I come up with tomorrow and if it is successful or not. Be sure and contact me if you have any interest in any of these projects.

Thanks for reading, Bryan

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  • http://www.sillypoetry.net/ John Flower

    I have a number of domain names, but I’m looking to sell them. I don’t really know how to go about doing it though.
    Here are a few of them:
    f1wp.com
    f1wp.net
    f1wp.org
    f1wordpress.com
    f1wordpress.net
    f1wordpress.org

    Any ideas? I think they may be worth a few dollars.

  • http://www.bryanhadaway.com/ Bryan Hadaway

    Hey John,

    I’ll give it to you straight… those URL’s have little to no value at all.

    What is “f1″? What you’re doing is what is called domain brokerage. In my honest opinion it’s just shy of spam. I’m sure there are some domain brokers that buy up thousands of domains and turn a profit, but it’s not a very rewarding career for the effort.

    My best advice would be to instead; first think of an idea. Something useful to people and then register a domain based on that idea. Try to get creative and avoid numbers and dashes.

    Get out the old dictionary and thesaurus:

    dictionary.reference.com | thesaurus.com

    Once you think of ideas check to make sure the domain is available:

    domaintools.com

    Another cool tool to check out is:

    domainfinder.geekfg.net

    Thanks, Bryan

  • http://www.sillypoetry.net/ John Flower

    Actually, I didn’t just buy those names. Although I don’t want to go into too much detail, suffice it to say that F1 has meaning (there are more types of motor sports in the world than the Indy500). However, at this point, I have no more use for those domains. Like I said, I can’t go into too much details, but I’m stuck with these names now.
    I don’t think they have no value either. Let me ask you this: what does calmest ghost mean, and what relation does it have to web design? Or is it cal mestghost, or calm estghost, or perhaps calmestgh ost? Chew on that one for a bit :-P

    As for calling something spam: hmmm, one man’s spam is another man’s steak.

  • http://www.bryanhadaway.com/ Bryan Hadaway

    Hey John,

    I hope you didn’t take offense to my words, just tough love advice based on my experience.

    I totally agree that calmestghost is a stupid name; I actually explain here:

    bryanhadaway.com/about

    Basically it’s just an obscure sentimental name to me and in 2011 I would never make the mistake of registering it again :). In 2006, I was just getting started and didn’t know any better.

    The domains you showed me I would search Google for “sale domains” and try and find places to list them for free, don’t waste any money because I would be highly surprised if anyone had interest.

    Then, just let them expire, don’t keep wasting money renewing them. Even if it’s super cheap, it’s an unnecessary burden.

    The reason they have little to no value is because no one that’s seeking out buying a domain in the way they’d need to buy them from you is going to be as ignorant as I was as kid putting my first site together.

    They’re going to have at least some savvy and be looking for something of quality.

    Specifically, why your domains are no good is because of the extremely narrow possible use of the names. For example f1blog.com would be infinitely more valuable than f1wordpress.com and even then it could only be a blog about the Indy 500.

    The only possible use for f1wordpress.com would be if someone was specifically creating Indy 500 WordPress themes for it to be relevant. Not only is that extremely unlikely I would feel bad for the schmuck trying to corner that niche, I think it wouldn’t go far.

    You might want to get other opinions, but I’m giving the best possible advice from my 5 years of experience. Thinking of it as going to a antique shop and getting something appraised. The client/customer often thinks there is value and is disappointed to find that there is not.

    Even though I would never register calmestghost.com again many successful websites completely make up random names like that to build a brand. Like flippa.com or fiverr.com. But, really the only reason I will hold onto it is because it’s already established and I have a PageRank of 3 going on 4.

    Thanks, Bryan

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