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Show HN: Generate Alliterative Animal Usernames
- jere 12y agoAlso a good way to name wines/beers. At least, I've long thought that there was an unusual number of them with the format Adjective Animal.
- dubin 12y agoReminds me of the Ubuntu release names (perhaps intentional?) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
- notduncansmith 12y agoThat was the inspiration :) Although Google Docs gave me the idea for the username use-case. They assign anonymous users names like Anonymous Echidna, etc.
- frozenport 12y agoI would love to see what you wrote, but requirjng a download sems a bit involved. This is one of those things that would better as a webpage.
- notduncansmith 12y agoWell the source is available on GitHub (no download required!). As for playing with it, a friend of mine is building this module as an API, which I assume will come with an accompanying webpage :)
- ncwhitehead 12y agoI now have an API for the site up and running at: http://www.whimsicalwordimal.com/ http://www.whimsicalwordimal.com/ For instructions on how to use, view the animal-namer-api GitHub: https://github.com/ncwhitehead/animal-namer-api https://github.com/ncwhitehead/animal-namer-api
- CatsoCatsoCatso 12y agoReminds me of a (awful hacked together) toy I put together some time ago. It randomly generates fictional companies from several large word lists. The results of these types of things are always more amusing than ever expected. http://vild.org/labs/stocks/ http://vild.org/labs/stocks/