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Open Source Project Name Checker

19 points by LogIN- 12y ago

aDevilInMe 12y ago
Yeah. An off by one error. If you input a string of three characters, then it complains that the input needs a name longer than two characters. How about adding googlecode and bitbucket to the list of searched sites and providing links to the found projects at the searched sites?
- LogIN- 12y ago
  Yea i see!! cool idea i will implement it over the weekend
swanson 12y ago
Like the idea, but I'm having trouble interpreting the output. I searched for "stringer" (the name of one of my open source projects) and I see "npmjs" "sourceforge" and "github" with a neutral smile-y face - what does that mean?
- LogIN- 12y ago
  neutral smile should mean that name is already used by somebody else in this case i think that's you
  - kbrosnan 12y ago
    How in the world am I going to know that. Please provide a legend or use words.
  - clark-kent 12y ago
    Maybe include a link to the projects using the name that's already in use.
rohitv 12y ago
getting a 404 on http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/ http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/
- LogIN- 12y ago
  you just came on nginx restart :P
- talles 12y ago
  me too
stevekemp 12y ago
I wrote something similar a good few years ago, and still use it: http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_want_to_be_remembered.html http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_want_to_be_remembered.html These days it lives in the Debian "devscripts" package, and it is still useful, even if it only checks against sourceforge, freshmeat, etc. (I guess freshmeat is dead these days.)
jarofgreen 12y ago
Cool idea. Is that really the only 3 places to check tho? npmjs, GitHub & sourceforge? Have to admit I did this just to see what places there where. How about packaging systems for other languages, like Composer for PHP, PyPI for Python? Or even OS's, like the Debian package repository?
- LogIN- 12y ago
  Cool! Adding them right now to txt file, i will implement it today/tomorrow
  - jarofgreen 12y ago
    Good luck with the project :-)
  - autechr3 12y ago
    I'd also like to see bitbucket and even CodePlex.
jrochkind1 12y ago
I entered several projects I contribute to that are hosted on github and registered with rubygems, and got smiley-faced github icons for all of them. I'm not sure what it's checking on github. It would probably make a lot of sense to check more of the popular package management hosts too (which all, by their nature, offer convenient API's for doing so). CPAN, Rubygems, PyPI, Bower.
edoceo 12y ago
See also: http://isvaliduser.com http://isvaliduser.com
- spb 12y ago
  > A test is already running, please wait and try again in a few minutes what
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unicoart 12y ago
Maybe add few popular domain name checks like (com, net..)
cokulic 12y ago
Cool Idea!! Using it definitely.
chazu 12y ago
Great idea, but the web demo isn't working at the moment. Definitely starring this one though :)

19 points by LogIN- 12y ago

Yeah. An off by one error. If you input a string of three characters, then it complains that the input needs a name longer than two characters. How about adding googlecode and bitbucket to the list of searched sites and providing links to the found projects at the searched sites?

swanson 12y ago

Like the idea, but I'm having trouble interpreting the output. I searched for "stringer" (the name of one of my open source projects) and I see "npmjs" "sourceforge" and "github" with a neutral smile-y face - what does that mean?

LogIN- 12y ago
neutral smile should mean that name is already used by somebody else in this case i think that's you
- kbrosnan 12y ago
  How in the world am I going to know that. Please provide a legend or use words.
- clark-kent 12y ago
  Maybe include a link to the projects using the name that's already in use.

rohitv 12y ago

getting a 404 on http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/ http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/

LogIN- 12y ago
you just came on nginx restart :P
talles 12y ago
me too

stevekemp 12y ago

I wrote something similar a good few years ago, and still use it: http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_want_to_be_remembered.html http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_want_to_be_remembered.html These days it lives in the Debian "devscripts" package, and it is still useful, even if it only checks against sourceforge, freshmeat, etc. (I guess freshmeat is dead these days.)

jarofgreen 12y ago

Cool idea. Is that really the only 3 places to check tho? npmjs, GitHub & sourceforge? Have to admit I did this just to see what places there where. How about packaging systems for other languages, like Composer for PHP, PyPI for Python? Or even OS's, like the Debian package repository?

LogIN- 12y ago
Cool! Adding them right now to txt file, i will implement it today/tomorrow
- jarofgreen 12y ago
  Good luck with the project :-)
- autechr3 12y ago
  I'd also like to see bitbucket and even CodePlex.

jrochkind1 12y ago

I entered several projects I contribute to that are hosted on github and registered with rubygems, and got smiley-faced github icons for all of them. I'm not sure what it's checking on github. It would probably make a lot of sense to check more of the popular package management hosts too (which all, by their nature, offer convenient API's for doing so). CPAN, Rubygems, PyPI, Bower.

edoceo 12y ago

See also: http://isvaliduser.com http://isvaliduser.com

spb 12y ago
> A test is already running, please wait and try again in a few minutes what

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unicoart 12y ago

Maybe add few popular domain name checks like (com, net..)

cokulic 12y ago

Cool Idea!! Using it definitely.

chazu 12y ago

Great idea, but the web demo isn't working at the moment. Definitely starring this one though :)