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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Now we just need this for Twitter usernames.
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
Baron Torenberg is the name of my future son. middle name Leslie (i'm a satanist) so his initials will be B.L.T. (Again, I'm a satanist).
@karenxchang what's the most fascinating thing you experienced this weekend while building this?
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Karen X. Cheng
@karenxcheng · I make viral videos
A few learnings:
@eriktorenberg
- There aren't that many common names! We used a baby name list of 2014's most common names. Once you're out of the top 300 or so, the names start looking unusual. Our database has 3,000 each boy names and girl names.
- Looking up bulk domains through other services (like Dynadot, GoDaddy etc) is extremely slow, so my co-foun… See more
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Karen X. Cheng
@karenxcheng · I make viral videos
Haha thanks. We're still tweaking the algorithm to show you less obscure first names (especially if you have a unique last name).