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

62 pointsby toddcookevor 3 Jahren18 comments

namechecker.vercel.app

Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

https://namechecker.vercel.app

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!

9 comments

_sojhvor 3 Jahren

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

rtldgvor 3 Jahren

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

phartenfellervor 3 Jahren

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.

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

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.

kmoservor 3 Jahren

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

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

Added - good suggestion!

morningsamvor 3 Jahren

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".

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

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...

morningsamvor 3 Jahren

Great, thanks!

ssrini2vor 3 Jahren

Make the search case insensitive please

valentepvor 3 Jahren

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

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

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

tlonnyvor 3 Jahren

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

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!

imgildevvor 3 Jahren

Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?

toddcookevor 3 Jahren

Thanks! - just added GitLab support

mehmet_mhyvor 3 Jahren

This is great!

mdsarfrazvor 3 Jahren