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

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

#41

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".

This is spot-on.

That whole "omit needless words" exercise? This is an excellent place where it could be applied. The form is straightforward. Just have people play with it.

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

#42
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.

Same here, but for Italian. Firefox 3, OS X.

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

#45
I love it! I love it! I love it!

I've used a lot of word generators, built some of my own, etc. -- but these are great names.

The only thing I noticed that was slightly annoying to me off the bat was I had no idea what the little bar was until I moused over it and realized it was the number of hits it received on Google.

I think it'd also be good to integrate this with another service -- perhaps a hosting service? You should talk to linode, dreamhost, slicehost, etc. -- Perhaps you could license this to registrars?

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

#47
Okay one final comment for you:

I think one of my chief issues with these sorts of apps is that after they are released to the public, the algorithms never change, and you see page after page of registered domains, which are completely unhelpful. I would suggest you continue to add other languages to the mix, and consider modifying your algorithms slightly just to keep things interesting.

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

#48
First thing I noticed was a UI bug. I thought I was forced to enter something in the "contain/start with/end with" box. I almost left the site before I realized that it was optional.

Second, it is very slow. It makes no sense to me that the processing is done with AJAX. I'm already clicking a button to submit info. Would it really hurt to generate everything on the backend (which would presumably be much faster) and reload the whole page?

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

#50
post #30

I really like this concept. The execution is simple and straightforward. Despite the sophistication, anyone can understand it. One question, though: How is it even theoretically possible to make money from this?

Thank you, Ben! As to the money, revenue source is the affiliation with domain registrars (GoDaddy, etc).
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