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Show HN: I had 14% battery left and I made this Name Maker for your Startup
- jstanley 12y agoThis does not seem to do anything
- windsurfer 12y agoI like "Travelive" better than "SMS Travel Map". I'd say it's useful.
- robbyking 12y agoYou have to enter your one sentence pitch first. Maybe the site's ulterior motive is to steal start-up ideas.
- melvinram 12y agoOn Safari 8.0.4, it doesn't display the generated names. I see they were generated in the console log. It works in Chrome.
- christianmann 12y agoI can see the names on Safari 7.1.3, OSX.
- melvinram 12y agoAlso, I would expect that the names would be checked for domain availability before being presented and it wasn't.
- tiagocesar 12y agoMaybe if his batteries were around 20%...
- mathgeek 12y agoIt's really too bad that he doesn't own a computer with a charging port. Imagine what he could have made!
- humanarity 12y agoYour feature request has been answered! The site now checks if '.com' and '.io' are responsive. I just found amaztion.com, bokic.com, prosable.io from this. I'm stoked. Just click the name to start checking. Please note however, the check is not "100% accurate" if the name has been registered, it just checks if the site responds, which heuristically seems a pretty good approximation. I.e, all the ones it said were ok, I checked on name.com and they were all unregistered.
- LukeB_UK 12y agoA lot of the names that it threw out for me just looked like random strings of letters.
- humanarity 12y agoI hope you get a better go next time! I just got 'amaztion.com', and 'prosable.io' I was stoked. I thought about filtering the words to make them more 'readable' but I decided that, for me at least, seeing all that unfamiliar randomness, helped me riff on what names might work. Like, "Oh, that sounds alright, if I just move that letter around." So I think the random words can work as starting points, as well as the words that just work: like 'bookism' (the .io is there).
- tiagocesar 12y agoA little jewel; congrats
- humanarity 12y agoThank you. I got the power back on :)
- stockkid 12y agoHow does it work? Will you open source this at any point?
- humanarity 12y agoIt just performs some random modifications of the words you enter: delete vowels, double letters, and add a suffix as well as a bit more. There name checking doesn't use whois it checks if the site is responsive, which seems to be reasonably (tho I wouldn't claim 100%) accurate! I'll think about putting it on GitHub. There's also a github here which uses virtually the same name modifications as this one (the README.md explains more) : https://github.com/humanarity/fakefakeproducthunt-gh https://github.com/humanarity/fakefakeproducthunt-gh
- stockkid 12y agoThanks. This is cool.