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Wordmerge

37 points by kilovoltaire 16y ago

handler 16y ago
my favorites so far have been: gourmaniac, barbequephoria, and japanimal
handler 16y ago
crosswauction is pretty good too, though i couldn't imagine a user figuring out how to spell that...
bitwize 16y ago
Travelanche is perfectly plausible as something you'd come across on TechCrunch.
- kilovoltaire 16y ago
  Haha yeah discovered that one with the app but just checked and it's already squatted :( Integrating with whois would probably be a good v2.0 feature...
mover 16y ago
i'm still partial to stupidestrian.
zrich197 16y ago
i think a cspanda is a type of japanimal
tptacek 16y ago
How on earth do you write an app like this and not come up with a way for me to buy a domain from you through it?!
- handler 16y ago
  it was a tough decision, but every time we thought about it, we had nightmares of this image: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwmmcouLYR1qz9v9y.jpg http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwmmcouLYR1qz9v9y.jpg
  - cosgroveb 16y ago
    I think you should really think more about it. $0.99 is great and all for an app but you could be earning commissions on domain name registrations at the same time. I'm trying out your app right now for a vexing domain name brainstorm I've been having...
- kilovoltaire 16y ago
  Yeah this definitely seems like a great feature to add. Initially we were just enjoying the words / not thinking of it as too domain-centric, but at the very least being able to quickly whois would be nice.
pyrhho 16y ago
Y'all had better watch out for my awesome new Socially Curated Vegan Recommendation Engine: saladdiction! Edit: I want someone to build this... I registered the domain to avoid squatters, so if you want to be the one to build it get in touch with me.
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ef4 16y ago
Why would I buy an app when I can just use http://werdmerge.com/ http://werdmerge.com/ directly?
- handler 16y ago
  because you want to support the developer?
NicuCalcea 16y ago
And this is an "iApp" because...?
- kilovoltaire 16y ago
  Mostly to learn how to make apps, but also for easy saving of favorites and nice UI for while you're sitting on the toilet. All of which could be done in HTML5, but might require account creation, and people seem to love "apps" still...
bkaid 16y ago
Next version should add logic to add "ly" to the end of most names.
- kilovoltaire 16y ago
  Agreed, more seamlessly dealing with plurals / comparatives / adverbs et cetera would be cool. Thanks for the suggestion.
shaggyfrog 16y ago
Not sure if featuring "retard" in an official screenshot is a great PR move.
- handler 16y ago
  there are multiple meanings of the word... but point taken
wca4a 16y ago
im going on vacation to kangaruba
Tycho 16y ago
Cool. The first Java program I ever wrote was actually to solve this problem (name my envisioned website/company), but your execution yields much better results.
wca4a 16y ago
this thing is great for smack talk "he's really into dicksploitation"
mayank 16y ago
Very fun, but also a prime candidate for a little casual Perl golf for the bored. I've got 463 bytes not counting the hashbang and when piped the linux shared dictionary (admittedly not the best choice of input) and a command line argument for prefix/suffix matching length. #!/usr/bin/perl $PRESUF=@ARGV?$ARGV[0]:5;while(<STDIN>){chomp;($_=lc($_)) =~ s/'.*//;next if(length($_)<$PRESUF);$BYSUF{substr($_,length($_)-$PRESUF,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$BYPRE{substr($_,0,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$D{$_}=0;}foreach $pre (keys %BYPRE) {if(exists $BYSUF{$pre}) {foreach $w1 (keys %{$BYPRE{$pre}}) {foreach $w2 (keys %{$BYSUF{$pre}}) {next if($w1 eq $w2 or $w1 =~ m/$w2/ or $w2 =~ m/$w1/);my $o = $w2.substr($w1,$PRESUF);print "$o (from '$w1' and '$w2')\n" if(++$D{$o} == 1);}}}} So something like this would do it: cat /usr/share/dict/words | ./FILENAME.pl Some nuggets: chiropracticalities (from 'practicalities' and 'chiropractic') welcomedians (from 'comedians' and 'welcomed') foregonians (from 'oregonians' and 'forego') peppercornstalk (from 'cornstalk' and 'peppercorn') popcornerstone (from 'cornerstone' and 'popcorn') microchipmunks (from 'chipmunks' and 'microchip') confidentists (from 'dentists' and 'confident') rodentine (from 'dentine' and 'rodent') decadentistry (from 'dentistry' and 'decadent')
- kilovoltaire 16y ago
  nice. yeah with a phonetic dictionary you'd get basically the same stuff we do.
abecedarius 16y ago
A bunch more blends from a similar program I wrote a few years ago: http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.

Wordmerge

37 points by kilovoltaire 16y ago

handler 16y ago

my favorites so far have been: gourmaniac, barbequephoria, and japanimal

handler 16y ago

crosswauction is pretty good too, though i couldn't imagine a user figuring out how to spell that...

bitwize 16y ago

Travelanche is perfectly plausible as something you'd come across on TechCrunch.

kilovoltaire 16y ago
Haha yeah discovered that one with the app but just checked and it's already squatted :( Integrating with whois would probably be a good v2.0 feature...

mover 16y ago

i'm still partial to stupidestrian.

zrich197 16y ago

i think a cspanda is a type of japanimal

tptacek 16y ago

How on earth do you write an app like this and not come up with a way for me to buy a domain from you through it?!

handler 16y ago
it was a tough decision, but every time we thought about it, we had nightmares of this image: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwmmcouLYR1qz9v9y.jpg http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwmmcouLYR1qz9v9y.jpg
- cosgroveb 16y ago
  I think you should really think more about it. $0.99 is great and all for an app but you could be earning commissions on domain name registrations at the same time. I'm trying out your app right now for a vexing domain name brainstorm I've been having...
kilovoltaire 16y ago
Yeah this definitely seems like a great feature to add. Initially we were just enjoying the words / not thinking of it as too domain-centric, but at the very least being able to quickly whois would be nice.

pyrhho 16y ago

Y'all had better watch out for my awesome new Socially Curated Vegan Recommendation Engine: saladdiction! Edit: I want someone to build this... I registered the domain to avoid squatters, so if you want to be the one to build it get in touch with me.

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ef4 16y ago

Why would I buy an app when I can just use http://werdmerge.com/ http://werdmerge.com/ directly?

handler 16y ago
because you want to support the developer?

NicuCalcea 16y ago

And this is an "iApp" because...?

kilovoltaire 16y ago
Mostly to learn how to make apps, but also for easy saving of favorites and nice UI for while you're sitting on the toilet. All of which could be done in HTML5, but might require account creation, and people seem to love "apps" still...

bkaid 16y ago

Next version should add logic to add "ly" to the end of most names.

kilovoltaire 16y ago
Agreed, more seamlessly dealing with plurals / comparatives / adverbs et cetera would be cool. Thanks for the suggestion.

shaggyfrog 16y ago

Not sure if featuring "retard" in an official screenshot is a great PR move.

handler 16y ago
there are multiple meanings of the word... but point taken

wca4a 16y ago

im going on vacation to kangaruba

Tycho 16y ago

Cool. The first Java program I ever wrote was actually to solve this problem (name my envisioned website/company), but your execution yields much better results.

wca4a 16y ago

this thing is great for smack talk "he's really into dicksploitation"

mayank 16y ago

Very fun, but also a prime candidate for a little casual Perl golf for the bored. I've got 463 bytes not counting the hashbang and when piped the linux shared dictionary (admittedly not the best choice of input) and a command line argument for prefix/suffix matching length. #!/usr/bin/perl $PRESUF=@ARGV?$ARGV[0]:5;while(<STDIN>){chomp;($_=lc($_)) =~ s/'.*//;next if(length($_)<$PRESUF);$BYSUF{substr($_,length($_)-$PRESUF,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$BYPRE{substr($_,0,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$D{$_}=0;}foreach $pre (keys %BYPRE) {if(exists $BYSUF{$pre}) {foreach $w1 (keys %{$BYPRE{$pre}}) {foreach $w2 (keys %{$BYSUF{$pre}}) {next if($w1 eq $w2 or $w1 =~ m/$w2/ or $w2 =~ m/$w1/);my $o = $w2.substr($w1,$PRESUF);print "$o (from '$w1' and '$w2')\n" if(++$D{$o} == 1);}}}} So something like this would do it: cat /usr/share/dict/words | ./FILENAME.pl Some nuggets: chiropracticalities (from 'practicalities' and 'chiropractic') welcomedians (from 'comedians' and 'welcomed') foregonians (from 'oregonians' and 'forego') peppercornstalk (from 'cornstalk' and 'peppercorn') popcornerstone (from 'cornerstone' and 'popcorn') microchipmunks (from 'chipmunks' and 'microchip') confidentists (from 'dentists' and 'confident') rodentine (from 'dentine' and 'rodent') decadentistry (from 'dentistry' and 'decadent')

kilovoltaire 16y ago
nice. yeah with a phonetic dictionary you'd get basically the same stuff we do.

abecedarius 16y ago

A bunch more blends from a similar program I wrote a few years ago: http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.