UserBuddy

Find out if your favorite username is available

1 follower

Find out if your favorite username is available

1 follower

UserBuddy is a simple tool that lets you check the availability of your favorite username almost instantly across 50+ social media platforms.

Launch tags:Productivity•Tech

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awesome tool i'm sure i am going to use in the future multiple times :) it would be cool if you could just select which services you do/don't want searching in order

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7yr ago

Maker

@thewrongjoshua Thanks for the suggestions!

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7yr ago

Producer Stash

Great tool for finding available username, Vlad! It helps generate a list of username that are already available on the Internet, so I know which one to use. Thank you for making this @vlad_arts :D

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7yr ago

Maker

@whizzzoe Thank you for using it!

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7yr ago

Envato

The word 'Exists' is confusing - consider using 'Taken' & 'Available'

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7yr ago

Maker

@johnkappa Noted that!

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7yr ago

Hey @vlad_arts , this is great! Super useful and a smart idea. Some concrete UX/dev suggestions: - Switch the styling for exists and doesn't exist (if I'm using the app to check a username, I probably want it to highlight where my username isn't used, and strikethrough where it's already taken). - Change the "unknown" to maybe a yellow pill with black text. That way you can see where it truly is unknown versus doesn't exist. - Add "target=_blank" to your links in the list. This way they'll open in a new tab and I won't have to wait for it all to reload if I forgot to hold the ⌘ key. The rest would be a little more involved to address: - You don't need to route everything through existence.php. If this gets popular that could exponentially increase the load on your server and you might DDoS yourself. At the very least bundle them all up together and only ping the server with one request per person. -- Use `fetch(url).then(response => response.ok)` for a boolean on whether the page responds with a 200 - 299. (Might need to turn cors off or use XMLHttpRequest). - Use localStorage, CacheStorage, or IndexedDB to store results for a username. It'll lower the hammering of requests to the server for the same username over and over. - Show the full results list and use a loading gif for each site, that way you can populate the results one at a time instead of waiting for them all to get done before showing any. Like I said, purely just suggestions for places of improvements. Really slick and wonderful how it is, though!

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7yr ago

Maker

@loraxx753 Thank you for the suggestions!

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7yr ago

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Promoted

awesome tool i'm sure i am going to use in the future multiple times :) it would be cool if you could just select which services you do/don't want searching in order

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7yr ago

Maker

@thewrongjoshua Thanks for the suggestions!

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7yr ago

Producer Stash

Great tool for finding available username, Vlad! It helps generate a list of username that are already available on the Internet, so I know which one to use. Thank you for making this @vlad_arts :D

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7yr ago

Maker

@whizzzoe Thank you for using it!

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7yr ago

Envato

The word 'Exists' is confusing - consider using 'Taken' & 'Available'

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7yr ago

Maker

@johnkappa Noted that!

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7yr ago

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7yr ago

Maker

@loraxx753 Thank you for the suggestions!

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7yr ago

UTMFlow - Link Management Made Easy

The website punishes you if you made a mistake and makes you wait

Pros:

It works

Cons:

Needs heavy UX improvements.

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7yr ago

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