Instant Labs

Instant Labs builds modern tools to help you find and buy domain…

y-combinatorWinter 2022SaaS B2B Marketing & adtech 🇨🇦 Victoria1 person

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Beau Hartshorne, Dirkjan Ochtman · 2 co-founders

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About

Instant Labs started in 2005 by building the fastest domain search engine on the internet: https://instantdomainsearch.com. People have performed over 2.5M searches and purchased 250K domains with our free tool.

2 founders

Beau Hartshorne

Founder

Beau, a software developer, started Instant in 2005 to help businesses quickly get online. In 2006, he created Snipshot, an early online image editor. Beau then joined Facebook as an early employee, where he played key roles on the growth, photos, and mobile teams. He's released multiple patents including dynamically cropped images and techniques for handshake-free encrypted communication. Beau also wrote for Smashing Magazine.

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Dirkjan Ochtman

Founder

Open source Rust maintainer

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @djco