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

62 points by toddcooke ↗ HN
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!

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phartenfeller
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.
toddcooke
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
Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.
ssrini2
Make the search case insensitive please
valentep
Especially for the websites, but also ruby, and maybe some other are not yet case insensitive
tlonny
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

toddcooke
Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!
morningsam
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".
imgildev
Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?
toddcooke
Thanks! - just added GitLab support