For most developers, buying a domain is treated as a normal part of building something online.

But for students, beginners, open-source contributors, and indie developers, domains are often one more barrier between an idea and actually shipping it.

A few days ago, while looking for a clean way to host my portfolio without purchasing another domain, I came across a project called DigitalPlat FreeDomain.

At first, I assumed it was another temporary subdomain generator.

It wasn’t.