Namelix

Namelix

Business name generator

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Namelix is a great free branding tool to generate a business name for your startup. The tool uses artificial intelligence to generate short, catchy, and brandable names and also lets you filter the results using positive and negative keywords, short names preference, and domain name availability.
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Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Branding
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Built for dev teams, not Fortune 500s.
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Rhys Adams
Domainz.io
Hey, can you explain how AI is used in this a little more please? Thanks
Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
@rhysbeingsocial yeah sure - first it passes your input keywords through fasttext - we get a random sampling of the top 100 or so words most related to your input keywords - the top words are used as the dictionary input to a markov chain word generator, which generates 10~15000 random words - the results are passed again through fasttext, we take the cosine distance of the resulting word to your input keywords (by using the out-of-vocab feature of fasttext) - the top 100 most relevant results are returned I had previously tried an encoder-decoder model with fasttext as the encoder and an RNN as the decoder, but it didn't work well so I ended up with this approach.
Primer
Songbox
@rhysbeingsocial @jak_9994 that just sounds like an algorithm. Not AI.
Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
@rhysbeingsocial @mickc79 AI is just algorithms.. word vectors, neural nets and earlier NLP research all qualify as AI imo
Primer
Songbox
@rhysbeingsocial @jak_9994 well I could implement what you just described. It’s simply a step by step process that’s repeated every time. Not an AI. However in a world where “AI” is thrown into almost every description of every new product, I don’t blame you.
Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
hi guys there have been other RNN-based business name generators: eg. http://adamloving.com/2016/12/26... but the names they generate are kind of random. I built this tool to generate names that are related to your business idea. the results are still pretty random, but sometimes you get a really cool one. My favorite keywords are "sexy, canadian" and "fun, weed" if you want really short, abstract names I recommend checking "shorter names", and unchecking "domain available"
Justin Mitchell
Why the random colors for backgrounds? Makes it impossible to read the text on some of the results. Bad UX.
Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
@itsthisjustin it gives it some flavor I guess : ] each name is rendered as a logo from my logo maker site. The colors are randomly generated from a list, I'm removing the illegible ones as I find them.
Andre Goersch
@jak_9994 I'd recommend using HSL color values instead of hex RGB, and making sure there is at least a 50% gap in the Lightness channel between the background and foreground colors. That should help prevent legibility issues.
André
First name generator that is legit, but wow, the loading process is loooonng !
Rebecca Garcia
@andre_daste Agreed, would prefer to show only 10 results if it meant that the page would load faster then I had to click to see more.
Andre Goersch

This is definitely one of the best name generator tools I have used. I am always concerned about using similar tools after having domain ideas automatically stolen before, but I'm willing to give it a go for my next projects.

I would recommend streaming the results little by little to improve loading.

Pros:

Easy to use, great visual delivery, results are above average for similar tools

Cons:

A little slow, only searches one extension at a time, not all extensions are displayed in the results

Julien Le Coupanec
The Companies API
It does not load on my side (I'm in LA). The circular loader keeps loading. Are you having the same issue?
Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
@lecoupa sorry, server under heavy load.. spinning up more nodes. Should be better in a few minutes
Evert
@jak_9994 Thanks for building it. Any change you can reduce CPU load? The minute results are being loaded my fan kicks in because CPU load is very high.
Elena

This tool works great. Great ideas for entrepreneurs as we ourselves spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect name for our startup. We did find it though 😅 How can me make sure all these cool domain names would not end up on a third-party reselling websites?

Pros:

Great suggestions, easy to use

Cons:

Something to notice: the url does not change even with the input of new keywords while doing a new search.

Jack Qiao
Huemint
Maker
thanks! I promise I won't sell the data to anyone : ]
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