Camel is an AI agent that taps to your personal or professional tools, allowing you to communicate with them in a natural language such as English.
It operates from the domain CamelQA.com and the Austin, TX start-up is not yet in Product-market fit (PMF) mode. Basically, the CamelQA product is in pre-beta and it needs to show some degree of usefulness before tapping into investors and VC funds for financing.
The company’s founder, Isabella Reed, attempted to obtain the domain name Camel.ai from its registrant, offering $200 dollars for a generic, dictionary domain in a hot TLD. Several dot .AI sales of dictionary words have exceeded the $100,000 price point for at least two years in a row.
When the registrant and lawful owner of Camel.ai indicated that he spent $40,000 dollars to acquire the domain, hinting about the expected price point for offers, Ms. Reed attempted to ridicule him as a “squatter,” among other epithets, to her peers.
What followed was a fun display of ignorance via X/Twitter as dozens of mostly anti-investor accounts encouraged the CamelQA.com founder to fight some undeclared war against the alleged “squatter” and their “scam” attempts.
Naturally, a number of knowledgeable domain investors that collectively spent several hundred years participating in the industry chipped in as well. It’s not the first time that fresh out of college, ambitious entrepreneurs want to attack and discredit the domain industry as a whole, only to be taught the facts of life on the internet.
View the full exchange here or be productive and watch this fun video from a Silicon Valley series episode that pretty much showcases the abject failure of having a thorough plan when it comes down to naming start-ups and branding products.
