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Heyo folks! Last year I bought GIF(dot)new as a fad (I love domains, love GIFs, couldn't resist). Tried building something that sounded cool/okay but had no practical value. It was…

That's helpful. I think I need to beef up profanity keywords A LOT more than I'd originally anticipated. On it!

No disagreements there. My goal is to make this THE BEST list (of all, if any) out there. As much as I see AI taking over handling variations, it'll still need an exhaustive source…

Right on all counts. Twitter is a rather simplified example. I see it as something that literally every platform can use. Say, ProductHunt, other platforms that offer product launc…

YOU NAILED IT! That's part of what I want to explore next too. One of the other common thing I've heard is to check other social media platforms to check if a username is reserved.…

I see. Will re-run through the categories and the datasets from which I've adopted the names and categories. Maybe either I missed something or it might've not existed in the impor…

Interesting. I think you're right (on the API category this falls under). Also love the approach on keeping this API async. Makes so much more sense that way.

Yes; I've gotten that request from another person on LinkedIn too for bulk checking existing usernames. Will work on releasing that shortly too. Thanks for being helpful and constr…

Hey @sampli — was there some kind of bundling that you were looking for?

Interesting! Didn't think about it that way. Currently, it's a super dumb system. There's a list of ~1.7 million records and the API simply looks-up against that. Super lazy approa…

I think there's a general aversion to subscriptions at the moment so wanted to offer this on a usage-based pricing to begin with. While I may have to (hope not to though) will swit…

You're right about the variations there. I did think about it but decided NOT to add that in this version (felt like over-complicating the process), which I've now come to understa…

True. I've tried to add language where possible. I think currently, it's only on dictionary words so if the username is a dictionary word in another name, it would be flagged. It m…

Well, to clarify, this API is really for folks who're building platforms that require usernames. For ex: imagine if you were building the next Twitter or anything that requires use…

Good point. Currently, I've got "kike" as a Spanish dictionary word and also a public figure. Honestly, the job of this API stops there. It tells the platform that this username ne…

Damn! Just read the title and a few lines from the post but will definitely go through it fully and thoroughly. Thanks for sharing. I didn't mean to reduce the complexity of the ch…

Fair. I suppose most newer platforms may not think too much about it. So here's the pitch though: Imagine you're building the next Twitter (or, you know the platform has the potent…

My take on latency in general is this: You may just use the API to flag (not act) in an async way. This way, you can just alert/monitor and decide later whether or not to take any …

Not a joke (I'm taking this in the spirit intended) but I can see there are TONS of things I need to be improving on: 1. latency: my original goal was to make it sub-10s but with c…

- site is AI generated: yes. I'm NOT a developer. I vibe-coded it using Cursor and other AI tools - post is AI generated: not 100%. I wrote the whole thing myself (promise). The se…

Tell me about 'em. Will add to the list. I doubt I'll be able to stop ALL variations but I really am determined to manually keep this list updated as best as possible. Currently at…

The comment on regex was really because that's what I did when I built internal reserved usernames list of 2 of my URL shortener projects. I love regex, btw. BUT, I don't think the…

I thought about this and decided against complicating ways in which this can be restricted. Honestly, this is a super simple challenge to solve. Perhaps I should introduce this as …