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Competition isn't necessarily a bad thing, imo. A lot of companies and successful businesses enter a field where there is a proven demand and need and find a way to stand out.

Find out what tools and services the startups/projects are using. You can then put a link to those services and get a commission. :)

Thanks, the kind words mean a lot. To be honest, I am not sure why the website has done so poorly in terms of search, but that is a good idea to reach out and try/get it on some to…

Thank you. Actually, in testing, the Namebird has been able to generate multiple names that are actual medication names. So there is something there, maybe I could modify it and ma…

Thank you! Now that's the reaction I was hoping to get, hehe. Glad it helps and hope you find the perfect names for your projects!

Thanks. Verisign is kind enough to let you sign up (for free, iirc) to get their list of taken .com domain names.

The hosting isn't too bad, but I'm paying for a somewhat powerful server as I am a bit of a perfectionist and only want to run the software at maximum capacity, so to speak. It's n…

Oh, cool! Glad it helped.

I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even…

Personally, I am a huge fan of Guy Noir. I wonder if he ever found out the secrets that the city was trying to keep from him - or if he found the answers to life's persistent quest…

Yes, and as the wise narrator of this parody series points out, "What is most remarkable about this story is not that the dolphin knew the woman was sick, but that it knew she didn…

If anything, I think lowering the barriers to entry should result in higher quality hit songs. For a hit song to occur, it has to become popular, which means a certain amount of oo…

I don't. I think the dragon and angel references are there not because of an understanding of the game but rather to make it sound like what a powerful card should be. Obviously, t…

Case in point The Simpsons. What season are we on, the 25th?

Reddit is a great site in what it does. And due to its nature, it has tremendous amount of niches, some of which are worth a lot of money if handled properly. For instance, /r/watc…

It's an odd argument. Many technologies were dominant but their fall from the top generally has a reason.

I'd also like to hear more. This is HN - a great place to discuss your product/tool (at the right time, of course)

Java doesn't seem too popular here but used right it can work pretty well, imo. For instance, I use Java for the backend of a name generator web app. It's astonishingly fast and di…

Fun article, thanks - gave me a good laugh!

Ensuring quality when you randomly generate things is hard. I made a word generator tool. In doing so, for just 6-14 letter words, I had to develop a large amount of quality regula…

I was biking down a hill about 10 years ago. Hit a bump or curve or something - either way, I flew off the bike about 5 feet forward and hit the ground directly head first almost a…

Interestingly, a quite high amount of breakthrough treatments were discovered by accident. Antibiotics, the original antidepressants, antipsychotics, lithium, viagra and others wer…

Actually, the sweater covered in eyes at 2:52 is subtly reassuring. It represents how the device is always looking out for you.

Agree. This really seems like it could be the start of a futuristic, dystopian horror movie. I think what makes it even more unsettling is that the people's voices are recorded nat…