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439 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.204s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
1. tquinn ◴[] No.44428137[source]
https://NameSampler.com

I’m working on a name generation tool that uses 83 structured naming methods. Examples: React (Verb-based), Vue (Obsolete English), Facebook (Compound), Netflix (Portmanteau), Lyft (Creative Misspelling), Alexa (Personal First Name), etc.

I wasn’t happy with the slop generated by the overly general name generators or my own prompting/brainstorming. I went on a tangent and read the top (5) books on naming from Amazon. From there I was able to create very specific and detailed prompts which started producing consistently good names, the odd great one, and a small amount of crud.

Eventually this escalated from a large spreadsheet of detailed prompts to a side project.

Please give it a try, I’d be happy for any feedback on this early version. (I recommend the options tabs for some granular tweaking)

(The name was inspired digital music samplers where there is a lot of rapid experimentation and tweaking similar to this app)