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!
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.
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.
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".
