Re:Ask HN: How do you name your startups or web apps?
by jacquesm on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @06:59PM
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Thesaurus, a corpus of text based on project gutenberg.
Usually I have a fair idea of the kinds of words I want around a project, the thesaurus gives one or two alternatives that I had not thought of (English 2nd language here), then I use a little program I wrote that tries to pull together two or more words based on a dictionary extracted from project gutenberg.
The resulting words are looked at one-by-one, promising ones go in to the 'register multiple' field at moniker, when I have enough I submit, check to see if any of my favorites came back as free.
It's time consuming, sometimes as much as a day for a good domain, but it almost always works.
Usually I have a fair idea of the kinds of words I want around a project, the thesaurus gives one or two alternatives that I had not thought of (English 2nd language here), then I use a little program I wrote that tries to pull together two or more words based on a dictionary extracted from project gutenberg.
The resulting words are looked at one-by-one, promising ones go in to the 'register multiple' field at moniker, when I have enough I submit, check to see if any of my favorites came back as free.
It's time consuming, sometimes as much as a day for a good domain, but it almost always works.