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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!

P.S. This is the second time I would like to ask you to review wordoid.com here at HN.

The first review, located at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621855, gave me lots of ideas and suggestions, that I believe made the webapp a little better:

1) The user interface got an overhaul and became much more user-friendly.

2) Domain availability checks are more precise now, and .net domain check is added.

3) The webapp works faster now.

Thanks go to JunkDNA, matt1, nwjsmith, oskarpearson, pierrefar, philh, papa, yummyfajitas,and all the other guys who posted their comments.

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

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Post by rarestblog »

op wrote: post #2

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 feed…

Maybe you should list those implemented ideas if you honestly want them reviewed?

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

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Post by op »

rarestblog wrote: post #3
op wrote: post #2

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 feed…

Maybe you should list those implemented ideas if you honestly want them reviewed?

Added a short list of major improvements. Thanks!

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

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Post by scottjackson »

(I know this kind of feature would probably be a pain to implement)

On the front-page I see wordoid called "tradio" (it's number 15 for me, maybe it's different for others) -- I think it would be cool if the web app was able to recognise that wordoids like that end in a TLD (trad.io, in this case) and check the availability of that domain as well.

Apart from that, looks pretty cool.

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

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Post by op »

scottjackson wrote: post #5

(I know this kind of feature would probably be a pain to implement) On the front-page I see wordoid called "tradio" (it's number 15 for me, maybe it's different for others) -- I think it would be cool if the web app was able to recognise that wordoids like that end in a TLD (trad.io, in this case) and check the availability of that domain as well. Apart from that, looks pretty cool.

Thank you, Scott, this is a great idea! I like it, and I'm going to think on it.
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