boom, purchased whatifitweregoodtho.com 💥 for my design rants but currently... it's bad! it's just a parked domain. so... what if whatifitweregoodtho.com were good tho?
Designing a site for on-demand design rants
11 tweets · September 2021 · 34 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
my first idea is that if you type any url, eg whatifitweregoodtho.com/xyz, then it would perform some sort of search for "xyz" and if it found something, it would redirect you to that and if it didn't, it would prompt a tweet: "Hey @Malcolm_Ocean, what if xyz were good tho?"
and I could alias a bunch of things to the same thing, eg "spotify" and "ytmusic" and "tidal" and "deezer" and "musicstreaming" and many others could all point at this thread:
an example of the prompt→thread workflow in action
I'm happy to do a design rant on almost anything, though not necessarily for longer than the duration of a single song. (You can propose a song if you want, though no guarantees I'll use it. Certain ("swagger") moods better for thinking outside the box.)
So! This overarching design of the whatifitweregoodtho.com website means that basically you can always get an assumption-busting redesign of anything either • one that already exists • one I come up with in response to your query.
And I guess in rare cases I would simply have it redirect to an actual product that I consider good enough to be the answer to "what if X were good tho?" whatifitweregoodtho.com/todolist → Complice 🤑 It'd be sincere! Maybe should redirect to complice.co/philosophy, not homepage.
Okay, I have a design for whatifitweregoodtho.com, but... it still needs building! I think I could do this manually with WordPress but it'd get unwieldy to maintain. Probably wouldn't take long to hack together a simple NodeJS website I could keep updated very easily tho.
But while part of me is tempted to just dive in and do that right away, I know from experience that "wouldn't take long" when it comes to software development is often overlooking a lot of abstractions.
OH WAIT. Maybe @davidfactorial could build this for/with me as one of his 100 tools! twitter.com/davidfactorial…
Although… part of me is asking if this current idea is anything other than a url shortener 🤦♀️ So I shall @AskYatharth: what do you use for yatharth.link? surely some simple service exists for that. Ultimately probably would be good to be able to customize things tho.