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Show HN: Namegine – find a name for your startup or product

121 pointsby kiechuover 6 years ago

18 comments

elefantenover 6 years ago
Quick thoughts:<p>-The pitch line makes it sound like it assesses the &#x27;quality&#x27; of the name rather than it&#x27;s availability&#x2F;similarity. I was expecting something that would &#x27;rate&#x27; a name based on some kind of popularity or sentiment score.<p>-Im not really a fan of the name, which is a problem that stands out when your product is about good names. &quot;Namegine&quot; parses strangely, I think my brain&#x27;s looking for another &quot;n&quot; to complete the word &quot;engine&quot; and keeps wanting to pronounce this word &quot;Namm-Egg-Inn&quot;. Honestly, I think just NameEngine would be a better name. Obviously very subjective though.
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mikejaremaover 6 years ago
Congrats on the launch.<p>I run Namevine.com and have for 6+ years. It does much of the same thing.<p>Did you not consider naming clashes&#x2F;confusion yourselves when creating the product?
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codingdaveover 6 years ago
I like the idea, but all I am getting is &quot;Searching... Please Wait&quot;<p>Even without seeing results, though - looking for an existing business name in the state you want to register your company would also be useful.
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dlhavemaover 6 years ago
Seems broken on mobile. Android Chrome. Cant click anyt hi ing to proceed. Neat concept. I&#x27;ll try it on my mac...
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kristiandupontover 6 years ago
Slightly related, I made this name generator that will make up words so you are unlikely to run into something that already exists: [link redacted]<p>It uses a couple of different techniques, I&#x27;d love to add more if you have any!
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Jack000over 6 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure what facebook availability means - the term I searched for says &quot;available&quot; but the account name is taken. Does it mean something else (page name? I&#x27;m not very familiar with facebook..)
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sanityvampireover 6 years ago
Idea: once you have a steady stream of users, automate some domain name squatting. Buy the cheap ones (.xyz, .website, etc.) for every name, then threaten submitters with libel blogs unless they pay up.
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maushuover 6 years ago
You forgot to add the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to your api:<p>Failed to load <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.namegine.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;*" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.namegine.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;*</a>: No &#x27;Access-Control-Allow-Origin&#x27; header is present on the requested resource. Origin &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namegine.com&#x27;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namegine.com&#x27;</a> is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 503.
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fippleover 6 years ago
Hard to trust a naming product with such a clumsy name itself.
penagwinover 6 years ago
I love the idea! Everybody has projects (for fun, hobby, or serious projects) and you see it all the time were the name is already used by [insert other large library&#x2F;project] or it translates poorly in another language [becomes the word &quot;poop&quot; or something].<p>This is really cool! :D
jazzyjacksonover 6 years ago
This worked perfectly for me with a couple of project names I&#x27;ve got. Was glad to see no one trademarked it and the words mean about the same thing in most languages. So thanks!<p>FYI: div.contactUs panel that says &quot;Interested in Trademark Registration&quot; is covered by the namesearch-Hintcontainer with its z-index of 500. It also gets especially screwy on narrow screen width, and obscures the footer text. So I hope you can make some quick CSS adjustments there.<p>Nice service.
zodPodover 6 years ago
I love this. With the excessive use of dictionary words it&#x27;s nice that there is now a way to search so that hopefully people will stop naming projects &quot;Hydrogen&quot; since there are 376 pages worth of results for it. lol
djsteinover 6 years ago
having lots of problems interacting with the site on FireFox Nightly. Can&#x27;t close the subscription banner for example.
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klaczynskimover 6 years ago
If any of you guys want to get product updates, just drop me a line at maciej@namegine.com (no spam policy).
scandoxover 6 years ago
Oh how well I remember &quot;Namerazor&quot;...&quot;so good it named itself&quot;.
godelmachineover 6 years ago
Anyone else hits on the link above and gets nothing?
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geff82over 6 years ago
2018 and it is unusable on an iPhone SE.
adrianskyover 6 years ago
Using it on mobile it&#x27;s a nightmare
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