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Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

62 points by toddcooke 3y ago

Name Checker is a tool for when you want to create a new project and don’t want to check all the places (npm, apt, GitHub) for a name collision, you can just use this tool instead. I started working on this because I noticed on HN folks sometimes create a new company and SAAS and they didn’t notice that the name was already taken. Please let me know if y'all have any questions or comments!

phartenfeller 3y ago
Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.
- toddcooke 3y ago
  Thanks! I hadn't considered folks exploring existing results for curiosity's sake, but that's a good point. I'll show taken domains and add links in an update.
- kmoser 3y ago
  Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.
  - toddcooke 3y ago
    Added - good suggestion!
ssrini2 3y ago
Make the search case insensitive please
- valentep 3y ago
  Especially for the websites, but also ruby, and maybe some other are not yet case insensitive
tlonny 3y ago
Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate. If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available
- toddcooke 3y ago
  Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!
_sojh 3y ago
Kinda related I’ve used https://domainr.com/ https://domainr.com/ for years
- rtldg 3y ago
  and a similar tool https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html
morningsam 3y ago
How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".
- toddcooke 3y ago
  Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/exists/github/route.js#L22 https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...
  - morningsam 3y ago
    Great, thanks!
mehmet_mhy 3y ago
This is great!
mdsarfraz 3y ago
Hi
imgildev 3y ago
Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?
- toddcooke 3y ago
  Thanks! - just added GitLab support
toddcooke 3y ago
The code is here for those interested https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker

62 points by toddcooke 3y ago

phartenfeller 3y ago

Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.

toddcooke 3y ago
Thanks! I hadn't considered folks exploring existing results for curiosity's sake, but that's a good point. I'll show taken domains and add links in an update.
kmoser 3y ago
Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.
- toddcooke 3y ago
  Added - good suggestion!

ssrini2 3y ago

Make the search case insensitive please

valentep 3y ago
Especially for the websites, but also ruby, and maybe some other are not yet case insensitive

tlonny 3y ago

Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate. If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available

toddcooke 3y ago
Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!

_sojh 3y ago

Kinda related I’ve used https://domainr.com/ https://domainr.com/ for years

rtldg 3y ago
and a similar tool https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html

morningsam 3y ago

How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".

toddcooke 3y ago
Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/exists/github/route.js#L22 https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...
- morningsam 3y ago
  Great, thanks!

mehmet_mhy 3y ago

This is great!

mdsarfraz 3y ago

imgildev 3y ago

Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?

toddcooke 3y ago
Thanks! - just added GitLab support

toddcooke 3y ago

The code is here for those interested https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker