Naminum - A company name generator that's actually useful

@acondurache The replace function obviously works less well for more complicated words. I mean, how many possibilities is there to turn "producthunt" to a intelligent name by simply replacing the vowels or consonants at a time? Naturally, not all suggestions will make sense. And I didn't intend to make it so at first. Its purpose is to give you ideas. If there's even one word that lights up your thoughts in a way where you can say, "Hey, I can really make something out of this", then I believe it has fulfilled its function quite well, at least as far as I am concerned. I attempted to check availability for producthunt.com, and it came out unavailable. I can't say what happened in your instance, but I will look into any possible bugs with the nameserver/whois check. Thanks for feedback!

@kasperiapell I think its a useful tool, just had some fun with it

@rrhoover nice to meet you in Tokyo on Wednesday Ryan what alternatives did you toss around when deciding on Product Hunt?

@dbounds NameMesh is pretty good too, decent spread of functional-to-creative options, and gives real-time availability that's generally accurate: http://www.namemesh.com also domainr: https://domainr.com

@e7mac Thanks so much Mayank! Both are definitely on the next features list. Synonyms are especially interesting, since they bring more depth to the naming and thesaurus has been a loyal companion always upon brainstorming names.

@kasperiapell Awesome! Looking forward to using this regularly :)

@antonreport Hey Anton! Do you mean looking up the domain availability? It indeed does that, although currently only for .com, .co and .io TLDs. Clicking a generated name will check its availability. Or did you mean something else?

@kasperiapell @antonreport I'm guessing he means filtering. I don't want to click through names to find one that has an available domain

@rossdcurrie @kasperiapell What Ross said..

@rossdcurrie @kasperiapell What Ross said..

@antonreport @rossdcurrie Ah, I see. It's definitely a valid point. Currently it's not done, because querying so many domains and their various TLD's would cause problems in load time and be spam to servers receiving the queries, but I'll make sure to find a way to implement it in the future.

@tacomanator Haha, it turns out the chicken came before the egg this time. I actually decided to leave the name open until the first version was finished, but while developing it just struck me somewhere out of the blue and stuck since then.

@yongfook I'm so glad! It's indeed true it reduces the scannability a bit and I thought about it, but I ended up going with two columns after all, since the scroll bar was getting quite long already and I felt that the volume provides value of its own in this case.

@kar2905 There's actually no dictionary in use – it's just letter manipulations in case of replace, and including curated phrases/words in case of append/prepend.