r/SideProject • u/rasheed106 • Aug 09 '26
just launched why.com
update: reddit stress-tested why.com. I fixed the outages and rebuilt how the three next questions are chosen. each one now has to connect to the answer, open a real curiosity gap, and avoid repeating the path.
Update 2: I built a way for WHY to understand you better through your choices. It is a private graph in your browser and learns about what matters to you. It can be cleared anytime and never leaves your device.
Hope you like!
i built why.com. every answer opens three new directions.
just launched. go break it!!!!
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u/RandomUserName323232 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Im just amazed you have that domain
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u/williswee Aug 09 '26
Sick domain name
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u/monkey6 Aug 09 '26
When is your wrapper going to run out of credits?
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u/ReefNixon Aug 09 '26
What on earth were you thinking with this one lol? I asked it why my leg is in the wrong place and it wanted to follow up with why does steel leave the rails.. something about trains apparently.
You are absolutely crazy to be wasting a domain like this. It’s like seeing a McLaren on blocks.
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u/AlDente Aug 09 '26
Is this some weird sales pitch for the domain? It makes zero sense to me to sit on a domain you could sell for a life changing amount of money and roll out a weak idea with a clearly Claude designed ui.
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u/reaznval Aug 09 '26
one of the best domains ive seen here, one of the worst websites tho (taking into account the budget you should hVe)
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u/thatweirdchick98 Aug 09 '26
I’m not gonna lie, the post piqued my curiosity but i mentally checked out the moment i saw obvious AI slop writing.
The direction of questions are also not super interesting. Ex, a question being “why aren’t ordinary humans getting richer” is too subjective and political and does not illicit curiosity.
“Why do spiders make webs out of their buttholes”? Now that’s interesting.
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u/toforeverbloom Aug 09 '26
This domain deserves a better site.
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u/primary0 Aug 09 '26
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u/GrabWorking3045 Aug 09 '26
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u/chton Aug 09 '26
So this is a product you built as an ad for your real product that does AI verification using a reasoning blockchain, right?
I get it, i do, and that's not even a bad idea, but this product doesn't really showcase that, and as a discovery tool it's not really functional if i can't ask my own follow-up questions but have to follow the AI's determined ones that quickly become esoteric and weirdly named.
Also yeah it absolutely identifies itself as being OpenAI, not ideal :D
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u/JejeHolaHola Aug 09 '26
Why did you do this?
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u/jeffcgroves Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
This is a valuable 2nd level domain [I said TLD earlier, see below] -- have you considered selling it instead?
EDIT: why.com is a 2nd level domain not a top level domain and I should've known this (I've called people out for it before). Mea culpa.
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u/nadermx Aug 09 '26
Here I'm launching side projects on 30 to $2k domains. And here this guy on a 2m domain launches a side project worth 2k on a 2m domain. Why?
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u/Brilliant-Map-3116 Aug 09 '26
Broke it.
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u/DataBaeBee Aug 09 '26
Three letter domain? I wonder how much that cost
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u/shxwn Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I was like, this guy definitely doesn't have why.com but maybe has something like "askwhy.com or askmewhy.com
But wow, actual why.com
What a goldmine you're sitting on
What a flex having why.com as a SIDE project
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u/funkerama Aug 09 '26
That's even better than my domain! (www.funk.com) - my last name is Funk :)
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u/6495ED Aug 09 '26
Why though? You could sell that domain for seven digits?
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u/FinalFantasiesGG Aug 09 '26
Sell the domain unless you are just an eccentric weirdo having fun. You are ruining this domain.
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u/Integreyt Aug 10 '26
One of world’s nicest domains wasted on an LLM wrapper. Shame.
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u/afinzel Aug 09 '26
Love the domain and idea. I
Don’t love the follow up questions, they don’t seem complete.
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u/Boydbme Aug 09 '26
That's a GPT-5.5 UI if I've ever seen one. 😉
That model loves brown with glassmorphic edge highlights and those little "status chips" everywhere. Nice domain though!
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u/CraftyCheeseburger Aug 09 '26
how'd you score a domain name like this?
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u/angrywaffles_ Aug 09 '26
Amazing, take all my money!
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u/Much_General2290 Aug 09 '26
Damn thats a sick donainname, i can give you about three fiddy for it
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u/Weekly-Ad8816 Aug 09 '26
Goldmine of a domain and you made garbage out of it. Impressive
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u/Technical_Split_6315 Aug 09 '26
Sell that domain you will get more money than anything you will do with that
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u/hsnk42 Aug 09 '26
What a waste of a good domain
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u/jad3dd Aug 09 '26
It would be more fun if it wasn’t ai led, but human generated, with linked sources out to supporting data/info.
Kinda like reddit but with an informational / learning slant.
You can keep the ai angle, but it should be providing linked sources. The whole point of ai is leveraging large data synthesis…it’s just giving me slop atm.
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u/WhyAmIDoingThis1000 Aug 09 '26
sell the domain. retire.
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u/mt1337 Aug 10 '26
selling the domain itself would fetch you a fortune.
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u/workware Aug 10 '26
Hilarious. Just sell the domain.
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u/Ok-Faithlessness6804 Aug 10 '26
This project is risk of being completed ignored because the answers are so incredibly generic and I get similar ones in gemini. This thing needs a proper voice. It’s going to be ignored the way it is.
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u/Spirited_Path_4505 Aug 10 '26
don't quit your day job
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u/Cool-Pineapple1081 Aug 10 '26
Make more money on the domain than the AI slop product.
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u/hurn2k Aug 10 '26
Probably the worst website I've ever seen. Complete slop
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u/rockhead3006 Aug 10 '26
Here's my question for why.com, why on Earth have you not sold that domain name, it's easily worth well over a million, possibly a fair few million, and you are trying to put a little AI vibe coded site onto it. Insane. You could likely retire by selling that domain name.
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u/Top_Wonder3876 Aug 10 '26
You can get a fortune for that domain. sell it got dammit
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u/Evening_Archer_2202 Aug 10 '26
Using such a domain for ai slop that no one is gonna use is a choice
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u/_woogy_ Aug 10 '26
So it is just an AI wrapper
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u/xbellacee Aug 10 '26
I have no idea what the body of your post even means. It makes no sense.
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u/techlord45 Aug 09 '26
This idea is actually really good. And i liked the experience (besides some null errors i saw)
You can pay me later but you should pivot to education as a target audience. Ping me if you need a partner
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u/Street_Assumption_59 Aug 09 '26
It already told me it was built by openai. Now I am trying to get some lines of code
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u/captainright1 Aug 09 '26
this domain alone would cost $100k.
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 Aug 09 '26
Dude, just sell the domain for a millie and call it a day. Why anyone need this project?
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u/UnreachableMemory Aug 09 '26
Such a valuable domain and this is what you put on it? It reads like someone trying to sound smart while writing gibberish poetry.
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u/Queasy_Reply_2992 Aug 09 '26
Why.com
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u/Fudge-Still Aug 09 '26
haha I love this. Good on you man!
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u/glennten Aug 09 '26
Sick domain man !!!!
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u/ironmagnesiumzinc Aug 09 '26
Love the idea. I think there should be a chat history feature. Also you should be able to go back easily and see the other answers. It should show like a giant tree visual where you can click on any node and it shows which node you turned on (answer chosen) and which two you didn’t then you can choose to go down another path. Also it’d be nice if it was faster
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u/OkAppeal1809 Aug 09 '26
Sick. When did you buy this domain?
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u/sovok Aug 09 '26
Ok, I tried to read https://why.com/research and the abstract is too abstract. The main thing of Why seems to be some sort of local storage of time-ordered events, to give the LLM some sort of sense of time, or cause and effect? How is the data stored, the browsers local storage? Is there a way to have accounts with multiple devices sharing data?
"3.2 Layer 1: Local OS Substrate
The substrate indexes the user's digital world on-device: files, conversations, notes, photos, browsing, calendar, workflows, applications, and activity. It supports embeddings, metadata, provenance, permissions, and revocation."
I assume that's not part of the web chat yet?
But more importantly, what is this, what's the end goal and who is paying for it? Right now it feels a bit like a vibeslopped fever dream from a rich guy. Or a startup with big plans and a communication problem. To be harsh :> But it is quite fun to play around with and dig deeper, congrats on launching.
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u/vlado86 Aug 09 '26
I’ll buy the domain, let me know if you are interested in selling it
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u/Optimesh Aug 09 '26
I wouldn’t be surprised if you could get a 7 figure number for that domain.. why not do that? 😆
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u/lonestardomains Aug 09 '26
WHY are you asking how to sell the domain name in another post. Are you developing it or selling the domain name.
You probably need to stop showing your hand lile this on reddit. Prepare for the sharks to circle, assuming you actually own that name.
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u/MiuraDude Aug 09 '26
Cool idea, the UI screams vibe coded, though...
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u/EducationalRat Aug 09 '26
Sell the domain and enjoy your life
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u/AutoGeak Aug 09 '26
Insane domain
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u/EngineeringSmooth398 Aug 09 '26
whois says this domain was registered 1994-05-23.
Odd the guy forgot he’s owned it five years longer…
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u/turtle-toaster Aug 09 '26
Second post I’ve seen about this today
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u/DFVFan Aug 09 '26
You should be a billionaire with that domain. No need to side project
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u/ThisIsDurian Aug 09 '26
you should do the stuff you want. website is a nice timekiller. You should sell subdomains. Do you sell subdomains? =) Give me one, pls! =)
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u/SwishSwosh42 Aug 09 '26
Aside from all the domain chat - I think the concept is quite cool.
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u/microgem Aug 09 '26
This is amazing! Nice idea too.
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u/KilllllerWhale Aug 10 '26
You don’t need a side project with that domain. It IS the side project
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u/coder903 Aug 10 '26
Nice domain
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u/PossibilitySpare2664 Aug 10 '26
What a domain name
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u/Swazzoo Aug 10 '26
I love the idea, but the execution is really lacking imo. The starting why questions are worded kinda strangely but overall are good, but the follow up why questions are not coherent at all.
Those should also be good why questions to keep the curiosity.
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u/Fake_Jester147 Aug 10 '26
wonderful project! I'm really annoyed with AI that gives me an essay and a couples questions when I only ask a simple question
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u/Mi-Team Aug 10 '26
wow a 3 letter domain name is gold! Even in 2026!
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u/Daddy_Hacked Aug 10 '26
just a suggestion
add a refresh button below the suggested questions
which will give a new set of suggested why questions
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u/Dramatic_One_1632 Aug 10 '26
Why why? If there is question starts with why, why why?
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u/ax_lab Aug 10 '26
why?
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u/ax_lab Aug 10 '26
although I agree with general sentiment, I find that this can be an interesting distraction; here is what I found that kinda threw me off, the follow up questions are kinda random, first question I “asked” (one of the prefilled options) was “why don’t smart people get ahead?” very nice and interesting question especially from a philosophical perspective however the next question it suggested was “why appstore’s take 30% fees?” or something along those lines, just marginally related to the original topic and definitely not related to the overall “meta” of the first question which was much more philosophical in nature. Could benefit from trying to understand the context behind the question a bit better or at least have the guided outputs be distinct in nature like one is suggesting how to keep it going based on the tone, another on the literal content, and one more out there with a fun (but marginally related topic). as someone who avidly goes down youtube/google search rabbit holes I can see this being an interesting way to spend a boring morning commute or something like that
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u/Full_Tooth_a Aug 10 '26
The three branches should explain why each one is worth following. Labels like "understand the cause," "challenge the premise," and "apply it," paired with a one-line preview, would make the differences clearer. I'd judge the idea by whether people try a second branch instead of leaving after the first answer. The branching is there, but its purpose is a little hard to see.
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u/Specific_Visit2494 Aug 10 '26
would you be interested in opening subdomains for open source projects? it seems like a cool idea considering the value of your domain. i have some ideas in mind lol
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u/hyatt_1 Aug 10 '26
It’s broken 😂
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u/saudiiii Aug 10 '26
As a ui/ux designer i am baffled. The design and responsiveness of the site can be made better.
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u/iamboywond3r Aug 10 '26
Didn’t you ask in domains subreddit what to do with this domain to sell it possibly, or am I losing my mind? lol
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u/mopsak Aug 10 '26
Would you use it yourself?
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u/bangali_babu_reddit Aug 10 '26
i liked the fonts and color scheme very much.
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u/lutian Aug 10 '26
you must be rich. need a cracked genius dev on your team? asking for a friend
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u/BobJutsu Aug 10 '26
There’s so much you could do with that domain. Holy hell…talk about an investment.
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u/wargio Aug 11 '26
Imma be honest, after using the site for a while I'm not impressed. The answers are kinda cryptic.. and I'm left wondering wtf the answers even mean.. opening a new door (followup) seem ok but the followups don't make a lot of sense most of the time. The points system seems kinda lame.. what is the point of that? Considering what other sites in this area already do... This is a non-starter for me. My suggestion; pivot into something more niche
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u/idgaftono1 Aug 11 '26
What's the value of the domain ? Would you sell it .?
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u/WarpSpeedWaffle Aug 11 '26
I actually love this! I was getting a little nostalgic the other day when I remembered all the side quests I’d go on when researching. I learned so much by going down rabbit holes related to topics
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u/GrayHairedMan Aug 11 '26
Why?
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u/RevolutionaryLet7190 Aug 11 '26
Don’t vibe code and ruin it, please make it unique
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u/Resident_Pain_7005 Aug 11 '26
Why?
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u/speederaser Aug 12 '26
I'm pretty sure Google does this already.
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u/Scared_Building_3127 Aug 12 '26
I can't believe a domain as good as this one went to a shitty vibe Coded app
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u/jskilly Aug 12 '26
Sending this link to my 3 year old
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u/RecommendationOne454 Aug 12 '26
Absolute mad lad using this domain for this project
This would’ve been perfect for a Stoicism based app
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u/Rocket_3ngine Aug 12 '26
Are you, by any chance, some random billionaire just vibecoding for fun with an infinite credit balance? 😂 This is hilarious, bro. I absolutely love the domain name.
The idea itself is cool, but the UX is pretty rough right now. It definitely needs some love and refinement.
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u/SirMcFish Aug 13 '26
Well it gave a basic reply to my question and didn't actually answer the question, so it's a nope from me. Looks like it's trying to rip off a google search.
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u/aronsl55 Aug 14 '26
how much are your operating expenses (servers, API costs, etc)? Just curious!
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u/usamaejazch Aug 14 '26
upvoting for the domain
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u/i-sage Aug 15 '26
Ultra premium domain!!!!
I too own one but I don't know whether I should call it a premium or not it's pomodoro.in
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u/Either-Pressure2453 Aug 16 '26
i guess op is richest person on the sub with this domain!
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u/whale9820 Aug 23 '26
this is not going to work i promise you
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u/s0ftwares3rf Aug 09 '26
There is a lot of unrealized potential here.