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

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Post by op »

Wordoid.com is a webapp that helps you come up with a catchy name for your product, company or domain.

It makes up new words that are unlikely to appear in a dictionary. It knows how to create words in several languages: English, Spanish, French and Italian at the moment. It is even able to create words in imaginary "languages", constructed by blending two or more real languages together.

I would appreciate your feedback!

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

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Post by pierrefar »

Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas.

One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right, I can't click enter to submit the form, but instead I have to go across the screen, up, and click the small Go button. Either do it live with AJAX or just add a proper form to refresh the page.

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

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Post by 10ren »

pierrefar wrote: post #3

Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas. One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right, I can't click enter to submit the form, but instead I have to go across the screen, up, and click the small Go button. Either do it live with AJAX or just add a proper form to refresh the page.

or perhaps add another submit button on the right, underneath the pattern choices

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

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Post by pierrefar »

10ren wrote: post #4
pierrefar wrote: post #3

Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas. One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right, I can't click enter to submit the form, but instead I have to go across the screen, up, and click the small Go button. Either do it live with AJAX or just add a proper form to refresh the page.

or perhaps add another submit button on the right, underneath the pattern choices

Yes, that's what I meant by a "proper form" but clearly it wasn't phrased with any level of eloquence.

To build on that: having the form split up is a bad idea. The sidebar serves no purpose really and I recommend all the form functions be collected at the top and bottom of the results.

I'd also rename the Go button to something more sensible like "Search" or "Find". Go has very few good use cases, and even then it's dubious.

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

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Post by hellweaver666 »

I like it... combining English words with a foreign language seems to make for some really interesting combinations.

Seems to be very quick as well which is great. Would be cool if it would check .com .net and .org variants as I wouldn't settle on a name unless all three were available (+ .co.uk as I'm in the UK!).

On another note, while I was playing with it, the name 'effection' came up and effection.com was showing as available. I went to my preferred registrar to buy* and it's actually registered. effection.com was originally registered back in 1999! So you may need to check out your domain look up code.

*no offence to you, but I work for a registrar by day and get staff rates!

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

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Post by mellis »

Woah, my last name appeared on the second page of results.

I found the distinction between "order" and "buy" unclear, although the color coding helps somewhat. Perhaps "backorder" (what Go Daddy uses) would be clearer? An option to only show available domains could be useful as well. Maybe an option to specify lengths?

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