Sai Tharun Kakirala

We recently implemented custom domain support in Inquir Compute, and it feels like one of those features that really changes a platform from works technically to ready for production.

For me, custom domains are a core part of production-grade infrastructure. They are not just cosmetic they affect branding, trust, onboarding, and the overall developer experience.

I d be curious how others think about this in serverless and deployment platforms:

• At what point do you consider custom domains a must-have?

• What parts are usually the hardest in practice: DNS flow, TLS issuance, routing, verification, or UX?

• Do you prefer keeping platform subdomains as the canonical entry point, or treating custom domains as the primary one?

Quick update for anyone following along.

We launched Dictura on Mac and Windows a few days ago and the response has been great. Many people have been asking about mobile, which is perfect timing because we've been working on an iOS version for a while now, and we're almost ready.

Same concept: tap, speak, get clean text. Translation built in, same as desktop. You think in your language, the output comes out in whatever language you need. No extra steps.

Everyone is panicking about the March 2026 Core Update.
It started rolling out on March 27 and will take up to two weeks to complete .
The spam update hit just three days earlier and finished in 19.5 hours, the fastest spam update on record .

But here's what the data actually says.

JetDigitalPro analyzed 600,000 web pages across the update period. The correlation between AI usage and ranking penalties was 0.011, effectively zero . Google isn't penalizing AI content. It's penalizing low-value content that happens to be AI-generated.

Websites relying on mass-produced AI output without human oversight saw traffic drops of 60-80% . Affiliate sites were hit hardest 71% saw negative impacts .