My client told me they didn’t need their domain anymore. Great, I’ll let it expire. Except they told me the day after it auto-renewed. So now I own TakeThisNow.com for another year.
I could’ve eaten the $15 and moved on. Instead I spent an hour or so building something with it.
What it is: A simple challenge site. You land on the page, get a random action to take right now (20 air squats, send a thank you text, delete 10 apps you don’t use), and either do it or skip to the next one. There’s a button to share your challenge to X and a newsletter signup if you want one extreme action sent to your inbox every Monday.
That’s it. No login, no tracking, no explanation needed.
Why I built it: Partly because the domain was already paid for. Partly because I wanted an excuse to learn Cloudflare Pages for hosting static sites. Mostly because I thought it’d be fun to put something weird into the world and see what happens.
The whole thing took maybe 2 hours. I wrote 50 challenges, randomized them in the code, set up the newsletter form with CampaignMonitor, and deployed it to Cloudflare. The site loads instantly, costs nothing to host, and could handle a traffic spike tomorrow without me touching anything.
Will it go anywhere? No idea. Maybe it dies quietly. Maybe someone with a big following shares it and it gets 10,000 visitors in a day. Either way, I learned something new and turned a billing mistake into a fun project.
If you want to try it: TakeThisNow.com