-The pitch line makes it sound like it assesses the 'quality' of the name rather than it's availability/similarity. I was expecting something that would 'rate' a name based on some kind of popularity or sentiment score.
-Im not really a fan of the name, which is a problem that stands out when your product is about good names. "Namegine" parses strangely, I think my brain's looking for another "n" to complete the word "engine" and keeps wanting to pronounce this word "Namm-Egg-Inn". Honestly, I think just NameEngine would be a better name. Obviously very subjective though.
Absolutely, at the risk of bike shedding, for a German/English speaker this parses really strangely. The parent comment nailed the problems I have looking for another missing consonant.
My mind jumped to pronouncing it as Name-Genie, thinking it was a reference to a genie in a bottle that would spit out a startup name for you.
I thought the exact same thing. I was surprised when it asked me to type in a name. Wary of what would happen next, I used the name of a competitor! :-)
The feedback being subjective doesn't detract from it at all since that's all there is.
You can almost read it like NGINX / NameGINX ... ah, Name(en)Gine
Though of course I’ve put far more thought into that then anyone else likely will.
I'm pleasantly surprised at what it turned out to be.
It uses a couple of different techniques, I'd love to add more if you have any!
Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue..
I run Namevine.com and have for 6+ years. It does much of the same thing.
Did you not consider naming clashes/confusion yourselves when creating the product?
For personal / social media link names I use https://namechk.com/ to see the full listings of every software.
And to echo another question in the comments, how is the name pronounced exactly? On reading it, it seems "gine" is likely pronounced "jin" or "gin" as in "engine".
I tried it on my mac ( looked good) but as you/your teammate reported, it is having issues getting data back from the API, every call is returning a 502
Even without seeing results, though - looking for an existing business name in the state you want to register your company would also be useful.
it can't check for twitter profiles?
oh brother..
I think it's a fantastic idea, keep up the good work.
Failed to load https://api.namegine.com/api/v1/*: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://namegine.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 503.
This is really cool! :D
FYI: div.contactUs panel that says "Interested in Trademark Registration" is covered by the namesearch-Hintcontainer with its z-index of 500. It also gets especially screwy on narrow screen width, and obscures the footer text. So I hope you can make some quick CSS adjustments there.
Nice service.
