ideas.co.in
Business ideas, each with a free name. Hundreds of short, concrete business ideas for the Indian market, each paired with a domain name confirmed free at the registry when the page was published.
- What it is
- An idea corpus with a verified name for each
- The work
- Editorial pipeline, registry verification, a searchable static site with an API
- Built with
- Next.js, a nightly export, RDAP at the registry, one newspaper-style design
- Data from
- Our idea corpus, the .in registry’s RDAP service
- Live since
- September 2026
- Visit
- ideas.co.in
An idea is only useful if you can act on it, and the first act is usually a name. ideas.co.in pairs each idea with a .in name that is free to register at the moment the page is built, and says plainly when a name is reserved by the registry rather than free, because the registry’s “not found” can mean either and we learned that the hard way.
The ideas are short and specific: a market, a buyer, a first product, the reason it could work in India. Each has its own page, the home is a searchable index with facets, and the whole corpus is available as JSON.
The work
The corpus is keyed by the word, not the domain, because the idea for a name travels across extensions. A name is admitted only if it carries a real signal: a dictionary word, a Hindi word, a surname, a place, a given name, or a brandable with a commercial reading. Availability is re-verified at every export, one registry request at a time, because a stored “free” goes stale within days.
The briefs were normalised once at export so that every page reads the same way, and the export refuses to publish a run that would shrink the site.
How it is built
ideas.co.in is one of several faces of a single Next.js application, each face chosen by hostname and defined in one file, so that a masthead can never show the wrong name again. The site is a snapshot on disk rebuilt daily, never a live database on a public request path. The newspaper look is deliberate and stayed through a redesign round that moved the data tools to another family.