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Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#1
In my exploration of OpenAI, I just created a domain-name search that takes business description as an input, and generates interesting domain names for it. It then uses DNSimple API to check if .com is available.

In my view it is a much easier way to find a suitable domain, as the AI thinks of a much large pool of possible names than my own brain. SmartyNames found its own name, using the tool itself.

Hope you enjoy it! https://smartynames.com/

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#5
Great idea. Thanks for sharing, and congrats on launching it!

As someone unfortunately prone to coming up with grand plans to build things, I could get a lot of use out of this. I have a handful of domains currently collecting dust, but hope to actually follow through on my plans at some point :) Far more time than I'd care to admit was spent on finding them, so something like this would have been a great time saver.

The most important feature IMO is the .com availability checking, which doesn't seem to be working at the moment. In addition to the AI-generated names, it might be nice to allow users to enter names manually as well (once I see an AI generated one, by brain starts to generate lots of similar ideas). Another cool feature could be to be able to select a domain you like, and then have it generate further suggestions similar to that name.

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#7
post #5

Great idea. Thanks for sharing, and congrats on launching it! As someone unfortunately prone to coming up with grand plans to build things, I could get a lot of use out of this. I have a handful of domains currently collecting dust, but hope to actually follow through on my plans at some point :) Far more time than I'd care to admit was spent on finding them, so something like this would have been a great time saver.…

Thank you! I will definitely add these to a list of new features and get them shipped. Btw, I just switched the API, so .com checking should be available again.

Unlike the old API, this one will mark something as "available" whether it's actually not-taken, or if it costs $9,000 to buy. Not ideal, as I think a lot of us would prefer actually cheap domains, but it's a midway solution to make it work right away.

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#8
Really cool! I did something very similar about a year and a half ago, and it's been coasting with okay traffic since then: namy.ai

Curious to know what you're using in the backend? Did you do any finetuning? Happy to share my process (what I did was scrape top 1mill websites and use that as training data for names on T5 nlp model)

Re: Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

#10

Really excited to see this! It works surprisingly well. Could you darken the red or lighten the green a bit? With red/green color blindness (about 5% of people I think) I can't really tell the border colors apart.

Thank you! And yes, good point. I just updated the colors, and made borders thicker so it's easier to see. Did that help?
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