Aron here with ValidatorAI.com 
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Important Context:
You may know I have a background in the domain name space.
I help startups and corporations acquire premium domains for fair prices.
To find these deals, I tap my amazing network of investors who collectively hold millions of truly epic domain names (think, one-word .com domains).


😍 Fun fact: I own Symbolics.com which is the very first .com ever registered on the Internet (March 15, 1985).

My personal page is: Napkin.com

Yep, I’m a domain name dork. 😜

Before we decide which idea we want to pressure test with real buyers…

🏃‍♀️ Only 9% of Validator AI members take the next step to validate. 

Let’s mockup a landing page and start showing everyone your idea!


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We’re Going to Validate a Startup Idea Together

Instead of analyzing data or pointing out mistakes founders make, we’re going to simulate how real founders choose what to build before writing a single line of code.

This is how ideas actually get picked:

• By eliminating what breaks under pressure

• By understanding incentives, trust, and scale

• By testing pain with real customers

  
  

Your role today is not to be the customer.

Your role is to think like a founder and help us decide:

The 5 Opportunities Worth Pursuing — Let’s CHOOSE!

Let’s decide, together, which idea is the one to show them.

1️⃣ Curated, Trust-First Domain Marketplace

AI scores submissions. Only high-signal domains are listed. This filters for quality.
Problem this solves: Buyers waste time sorting through junk on existing marketplaces.
Competition: GoDaddy just launched DomainNames.com which is similar. And they have deeper pockets and more distribution than us.

2️⃣ Domain Ownership & Listing Verification Layer

A third-party system that proves sellers actually own what they list. Verify ownership, control over the DNS etc.
Problem this solves: Fake listings poison marketplaces. Buyers lose trust.
Competition: No one is working on this now. However, this does require the buy-in of domain name marketplaces. Marketplaces, auctions and brokerages would be our customers.

3️⃣ A Domain Name Investment Fund

Exposure to domains without copying existing fund models. Fully managed buying, selling, etc.
Problem this solves: Capital wants access to the domain market; current options are limited.
Competition: One could invest in GoDaddy stock for exposure to the market. But, no one is managing a domain name fund, currently. We’d have to find experts to manage the fund. Regulatory risk and issues here.

4️⃣ Real-Time Domain Demand Signals

Similar to a Bloomberg feed… data would show alerts when buyer intent spikes, dashboards showing rising demand by keyword or industry, and signals that help sellers decide when to list, hold, or raise prices.
Problem: Sellers don’t know when to sell and they lack real time data on demand.
Competition: Countless legacy tools exist like DomainTools.com and DotDB.com. These are very popular. But all are backward looking and aren’t predictive and current.

5️⃣ Instant Liquidity for High-Quality Domains

Pre-scored names are surfaced to curated buyers for fast, competitive bids. We could use AI to score the names and push the best domains to our investor list. The value is in the curated investor list. We’d have to build that.
Problem: Domains are illiquid and slow to transact. Good names need quick liquidity.
Competition: There are countless domain name marketplaces like Sedo.com, Afternic.com, Atom.com. Again, we’d have to build the investor list for this to work, so there’s operational risk there.

Vote Like a Founder

You’re not voting on what you would buy.

You’re voting on:

✅ VOTE! Choose the ONE IDEA we should get feedback on!

📃 What Happens Next?

1. You vote

2. We take the top 1 or 2 ideas

3. We present them to domain portfolio holders (the real customers)

4. We publish the feedback here in the newsletter in a few days

5. We decide whether to move forward, iterate, or kill the idea publicly

This is how you should validate your own idea!

👍 Have you already talked to potential customers about your idea?

Take the next step at Base44 and start showing everyone! 👇👇

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🤖 Use this prompt at Base44 (replace the info in brackets with your own idea) 👇

🙏 GO VOTE ASAP!
I’ll be back in a few days with the results of our validation test!

Good luck out there. Email me if you need someone to talk to about your idea.

Aron Meystedt

Chief Data Nerd at ValidatorAI.com

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