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Snow HN: Choosing a name for your project is hard. This makes it easier.

20 points by hartleybrody 13y ago

benologist 13y ago
I like the Twitter and Facebook check but it really needs to take your input and turn that into suggestions not just combinations.
stevenp 13y ago
I'm red-green colorblind and the dots are extremely hard to see (at least for me). Any chance you might change them to be further apart in color, or use different colors? Blue and red, for instance, would not cause the same issue for me. Love the idea, though!
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  ah, that's a great point! what're the best colors for indicating success and failure to red-green color blind folks?
  - awda 13y ago
    Any pair of colors except (red, green).
    - sakai 13y ago
      Another perspective -- since red and green are very universal colors for success/failure, stop/go, etc., you could also choose to keep the red and green colors but change the dots to a checkmark and X glyph (or similar).
      - hartleybrody 13y ago
        Yep, just made this change actually. I agree with the universality of the meaning of red and green. I also liked using those colors since it makes the resulting table much quicker to scan. Changing the marks from circles to useful symbols is probably much better than coming up with arbitrary success/failure colors. Thanks for the tip!
      - cpayne 13y ago
        I'm red/green as well and agree the glyph is the best way to go.
  - bdcravens 13y ago
    Jenkins actually uses red/blue for this reason.
- ISL 13y ago
  There exist colorblindness simulators. Vischeck is one, but it's apparently down. This one acts on existing web pages: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=1;u=www.google.com;t=p http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=...
emillon 13y ago
Minor bug: the <title> says "Startup Naming".
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  Fixed, thanks!
  - mparlane 13y ago
    But snow is fine.
cpncrunch 13y ago
"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments."
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  Just spun up some more dynos so it should be back up and snappy again!
  - cpncrunch 13y ago
    Ok, thanks it's working now. What I was expecting was that it would be more automatic, in terms of automatically checking .cc, .co, ly, and various other common variations.
scottmagdalein 13y ago
Cool idea.
derwiki 13y ago
Couldn't you have come up with a better name ;-)
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  haha I built this while trying to find a name for another project I'm working on. Didn't want to buy a domain just for this.
smoyer 13y ago
"Snow HN: ..." I hate it when people try to pull one over on me, but thanks for at least being honest. I have to admit that you're shooting high since the population of bright individuals is pretty high here.
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  Yah, hadn't noticed the typo until a while after I had posted it. Would love if a moderator would change the title.
  - smoyer 13y ago
    I never notice until the edit link disappears, then there's a flood of changes that rushes into my head. So I guess I know what you mean.
kyleshockey 13y ago
A thought: when one of the roll-your-own prefix/suffix boxes are filled out, a new one should appear. Great tool!
koa 13y ago
Noticed some console.log statements in the .html source. Isn't this invalid for internet explorer? It would probably stop execution once the error is triggered
- hartleybrody 13y ago
  Yikes, is it really invalid in IE? I left those in cause I was constantly debugging that progress bar, but I'll definitely take them out if they're causing problems for anyone.

20 points by hartleybrody 13y ago

I like the Twitter and Facebook check but it really needs to take your input and turn that into suggestions not just combinations.

stevenp 13y ago

I'm red-green colorblind and the dots are extremely hard to see (at least for me). Any chance you might change them to be further apart in color, or use different colors? Blue and red, for instance, would not cause the same issue for me. Love the idea, though!

hartleybrody 13y ago
ah, that's a great point! what're the best colors for indicating success and failure to red-green color blind folks?
- awda 13y ago
  Any pair of colors except (red, green).
  - sakai 13y ago
    Another perspective -- since red and green are very universal colors for success/failure, stop/go, etc., you could also choose to keep the red and green colors but change the dots to a checkmark and X glyph (or similar).
    - hartleybrody 13y ago
      Yep, just made this change actually. I agree with the universality of the meaning of red and green. I also liked using those colors since it makes the resulting table much quicker to scan. Changing the marks from circles to useful symbols is probably much better than coming up with arbitrary success/failure colors. Thanks for the tip!
    - cpayne 13y ago
      I'm red/green as well and agree the glyph is the best way to go.
- bdcravens 13y ago
  Jenkins actually uses red/blue for this reason.
ISL 13y ago
There exist colorblindness simulators. Vischeck is one, but it's apparently down. This one acts on existing web pages: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=1;u=www.google.com;t=p http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=...

emillon 13y ago

Minor bug: the <title> says "Startup Naming".

hartleybrody 13y ago
Fixed, thanks!
- mparlane 13y ago
  But snow is fine.

cpncrunch 13y ago

"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments."

hartleybrody 13y ago
Just spun up some more dynos so it should be back up and snappy again!
- cpncrunch 13y ago
  Ok, thanks it's working now. What I was expecting was that it would be more automatic, in terms of automatically checking .cc, .co, ly, and various other common variations.

scottmagdalein 13y ago

Cool idea.

derwiki 13y ago

Couldn't you have come up with a better name ;-)

hartleybrody 13y ago
haha I built this while trying to find a name for another project I'm working on. Didn't want to buy a domain just for this.

smoyer 13y ago

"Snow HN: ..." I hate it when people try to pull one over on me, but thanks for at least being honest. I have to admit that you're shooting high since the population of bright individuals is pretty high here.

hartleybrody 13y ago
Yah, hadn't noticed the typo until a while after I had posted it. Would love if a moderator would change the title.
- smoyer 13y ago
  I never notice until the edit link disappears, then there's a flood of changes that rushes into my head. So I guess I know what you mean.

kyleshockey 13y ago

A thought: when one of the roll-your-own prefix/suffix boxes are filled out, a new one should appear. Great tool!

koa 13y ago

Noticed some console.log statements in the .html source. Isn't this invalid for internet explorer? It would probably stop execution once the error is triggered

hartleybrody 13y ago
Yikes, is it really invalid in IE? I left those in cause I was constantly debugging that progress bar, but I'll definitely take them out if they're causing problems for anyone.