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by anonfunction 4254 days ago
A while back I created a startup name generator by fusing tech and culinary terms together. I also set it up to check if the .com is available. It gets a decent amount of traffic and a few domains purchased every once in a while.

Check it out: http://montanaflynn.me/lab/startup-name-generator/

2 comments

That is really slick.
Thanks, I've had a few people tell me it relieved a bunch of stress from choosing the perfect name. I plan to extend it with different term groups (space, sports, etc...) so you can fine tune the results to your specific startup industry.

I'm also proud of the way I implemented[1] the Domainr API[2] to check for domain availability. Previously I checked it in the backend but it made things very slow so now the backend generates the domains and the client lazily checks the availability.

[1] http://montanaflynn.me/lab/startup-name-generator/assets/mag...

[2] https://www.mashape.com/nbio/domainr

That is pretty cool.