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Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

#1

Post by toddcooke » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 12:34 PM UTC

Name Checker is a tool for when you want to create a new project and don’t want to check all the places (npm, apt, GitHub) for a name collision, you can just use this tool instead.

I started working on this because I noticed on HN folks sometimes create a new company and SAAS and they didn’t notice that the name was already taken.

Please let me know if y'all have any questions or comments!

Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
namechecker.vercel.app

Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

#2

Post by phartenfeller » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 12:44 PM UTC

Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.

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#3

Post by toddcooke » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 1:24 PM UTC

phartenfeller wrote: post #2

Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.

Thanks! I hadn't considered folks exploring existing results for curiosity's sake, but that's a good point. I'll show taken domains and add links in an update.

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#4

Post by ssrini2 » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 3:50 PM UTC

Make the search case insensitive please

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#5

Post by valentep » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 5:31 PM UTC

ssrini2 wrote: post #4

Make the search case insensitive please

Especially for the websites, but also ruby, and maybe some other are not yet case insensitive

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#6

Post by tlonny » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 6:45 PM UTC

Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate.

If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available

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#7

Post by _sojh » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:48 PM UTC

Kinda related I’ve used https://domainr.com/ for years

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#8

Post by morningsam » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 8:57 PM UTC

How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".

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#9

Post by mehmet_mhy » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

This is great!

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#10

Post by kmoser » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

phartenfeller wrote: post #2

Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.

Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.