Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

namechecker.vercel.app

62 pointstoddcooke3 years ago18 comments

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!

_sojh 3y

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

rtldg 3y

and a similar tool https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html

phartenfeller 3y

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.

toddcookeOP3y

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.

kmoser 3y

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

toddcookeOP3y

Added - good suggestion!

morningsam 3y

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".

toddcookeOP3y

Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...

morningsam 3y

Great, thanks!

ssrini2 3y

Make the search case insensitive please

valentep 3y

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

toddcookeOP3y

The code is here for those interested https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker

tlonny 3y

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

toddcookeOP3y