DomainScan - Devlog #02

Quick recap: I’m building a web app to help you check domain availability and prices for your next idea.

I started building this because I was tired of checking dozens of domain names (including variations) by hand every time I had a new idea.

Updates

• Added domain saving: You can now click on the “bookmark” button to save a domain for later
• When you search a full domain name (including the TLD), different TLDs are automatically checked too, like classic registrar searches do.
• Added some subtle UI animations for buttons
• Added a “second action” optional parameter for the DomainCard component, for future use :)

Next up: more features and deploying.

If you have ideas for features you’d like to see, I’d love to hear them!

Previous devlog (#01)

DomainScan - Devlog #01

I’m building a web app to help you check domain availability and prices for your next idea.

I started building this because I was tired of checking dozens of domain names (including variations) by hand every time I had a new idea.

Features

I finished building the main feature: searching for domains and checking their availability & price through the Cloudflare Registrar API. I also built these features:

• you can enter either a project name and get some (customizable) suggestions or enter a domain name and check just for its availability.
• for multi-word searches, trying both with and without hyphens between the words
• auto adding prefixes from a customizable list (to give you a better chance of finding an available domain)
• customizable TLD list

Tech stack

I’m using TanStack Start, with TanStack Query to cache and optimize the CF Registrar requests.
For the UI, I’m using shadcn/ui components (with BaseUI primitives and HugeIcons).

For persisting settings between website visits/reloads, I’m using usehooks-ts’s useLocalStorage.

Next up: adding more features, polishing the UX, and deploying it.

If you have ideas for features you’d like to see, I’d love to hear them!

Next devlog (#02)