The Problem Every Domain Hoarder Knows
If you've ever bought a domain name on impulse — convinced it was the next big thing — you're not alone. I've done it 225 times. Over the years, my portfolio grew like a digital junk drawer: brilliant ideas from 2 AM brainstorms, speculative keyword plays, side projects that never shipped, and domains I genuinely forgot I owned. Every year, renewal notices would roll in like a guilt tax on unrealized ambition.
Sound familiar? Turns out, domain hoarding is practically an epidemic among founders and investors. The problem isn't buying them — it's doing something with them. Manual evaluation is slow, hiring consultants is expensive, and most of us just don't have the framework to systematically assess which domains have real business potential.
So We Built DustyDomain
DustyDomain started as a tool to solve our own problem. We wanted to take a domain name — any domain — and answer one question: "What's the best business you could build on this?" Not a vague suggestion. A real answer with market validation, competitive analysis, and a product spec you could hand to a developer.
Here's the pipeline we built:
1. Domain Analysis — Paste a domain and the AI evaluates brandability, keyword relevance, market trends, and competitive landscape. Each domain gets a composite score so you can prioritize your portfolio.
2. Idea Generation — For each domain, the platform generates multiple business concepts. Not just "build a SaaS" — actual validated ideas with target audiences, revenue models, and differentiation angles. Each idea is scored so you can compare apples to apples.
3. PRD Generation — Pick your best idea and DustyDomain writes a comprehensive Product Requirements Document: user personas, feature specs, technical architecture recommendations, and go-to-market strategy. This isn't a ChatGPT prompt dump — it's structured, actionable, and ready for a development team.
4. Task Plans — Each PRD breaks down into launch-ready execution plans with milestones, dependencies, and time estimates. You go from "I own this domain" to "here's the 12-week roadmap" in under 10 minutes.
What We Learned Building It
The biggest surprise wasn't the tech — it was how fast the pipeline could move. What used to take a weekend of research and a whiteboard session now happens in under two minutes. We ran our entire 225-domain portfolio through it and found genuine opportunities we'd overlooked for years. Domains we were about to let expire turned out to have strong keyword alignment with growing markets.
The other lesson: AI-generated PRDs are surprisingly good when you give the model enough context. By feeding in the domain analysis and market data upstream, the PRD output is grounded in real research — not hallucinated feature lists. We're seeing 90% reduction in ideation time compared to our old manual process.
Who It's For
DustyDomain isn't just for domain hoarders (though we're definitely the core audience). It's for anyone who needs to rapidly validate business ideas: indie hackers looking for their next project, agencies pitching clients on new product concepts, domain investors who want to sell domains with business plans attached (dramatically increasing perceived value), and startup studios that need to evaluate opportunities at scale.
Try It
DustyDomain is live at dustydomain.com with a free tier so you can test-drive the pipeline. Paste a domain, see what comes back. If you're sitting on a portfolio of domains wondering what to do with them — this is what we built for ourselves, and now it's yours.
