Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp • Hacker News Board

I think it should advise that the process could take a little while. My initial inclination was to x out of the window after watching all those things spin for a bit with no response.

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by op » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

akamaka wrote: post #10

The checkbox and label "French" appear on different lines in my broswer, which is confusing. Try putting all the checkboxes on the next line, or putting each one in a CSS nowrap block.

akamaka, which browser do you use?

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by op » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:11 PM UTC

tome wrote: post #9

Doesn't work in Konqueror 4.

Thanks for pointing this out!

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by chaosmachine » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:24 PM UTC

All that help text is not really necessary. You could get rid of it. Nobody will read 3 paragraphs of small text to figure out how to use your site. Encourage people to just try it.

Make the form the center of attention. Don't be afraid to bump up the font size a bit more. You could move the language checkboxes down to a second line. The "Create" button could be bigger and more obvious. Make it say "Go" or "Search".

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by sammcd » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:24 PM UTC

I'm a big fan. I am in the process of looking for a company name and this is really helping to give me some ideas.

My suggestion is a "buy domain" button. I feel like this would allow you to convert this to money quicker. In the list I am given no suggestion that clicking on the domain will take me to godaddy, if I was given a buy domain button I would be more likely to make money.

Also you could give me a choice of registrars. It seems you can only make money off of godaddy customers. I would be very likely to click your affiliate link to 1and1.com and purchase, but for now I will navigate their myself to make purchases.

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by olefoo » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:38 PM UTC

I notice that if you select multiple languages and give it a startswith "word", it does not translate the given word and attempt the lingual variations.

For instance I gave it the word "life" and was expecting variations of "vida" "vie" "vita" "life" but only got words generated from the last stem.

Re: Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

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Post by vaksel » Sun, Aug 02, 2009, 3:55 PM UTC

you need to add the ability to add a max length to the word