I Bought a Domain at 15. Now It Powers 400,000+ Users.

My name is Edward Hsing. I’m 18, and I build internet infrastructure. Today, something I started at 15 serves over 400,000 users, with more than 150,000 GitHub stars. I was 15 when I bought a domain name. I didn’t expect it to become something hundreds of thousands of people would end up using. It wasn’t a startup. It wasn’t a plan. I just wanted to see what I could build. At the time, getting a domain felt unnecessarily hard. It cost money, required setup, and for many people, it was simply out of reach. That didn’t make sense to me. So I started experimenting. It Started With One Question A friend asked me something simple: “Can I use a subdomain under your domain?” I said yes. Then someone else asked. And then another. That was the moment it stopped being mine. What began as a personal experiment quietly turned into something people started relying on in their projects. Building Something That Didn’t Exist There wasn’t a system for what I wanted to do. No platform designed to let an