Show HN: I taught ChatGPT to find cool domain names – with availability check (opens in new tab)

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67 pointskamalkishor19911y ago44 comments

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How is this more useful than the current state of domain name idea generators, which also do a search for the availability of the domain?

It just seems, slower?

The feat of doing that with ai alone might make an interesting blog post. But the end result as a product isn’t something I’m going to use just because it’s using ai.

The job to be done is not to use ai to do x.

Tho I would be interested to read the blog post..

SketchySeaBeast1y ago

Not just slower, far more compute intensive.

We're at this weird point where devs will both complain that VSCode is slow and bad because it runs on electron, and then insist that every decision and line of code they make runs through a giant Rube Goldberg machine before they type it.

giancarlostoro1y ago

My only complaint about VS Code is the naming. I'll be googling for actual Visual Studio (2021, 2019, 2015, etc) specific things, and find myself with VS Code specific results all the time. I wish Microsoft would have given it a better more SEO friendly name, they didn't learn from naming SQL Server I suppose.

Go has the same problem, which annoys me, a search engine company didn't think that one through.

Please, major corporations, give better names to your products that are unique enough to dominate search results. Invent new words for all I care.

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meowface1y ago

>and then insist that every decision and line of code they make runs through a giant Rube Goldberg machine before they type it.

If you've ever used Copilot, it's surprisingly fast. It definitely leads to net less time spent typing.

KaoruAoiShiho1y ago

People are self-interested. Electron only offers the maker of the tool value but not the end user. The end user finds AI extremely valuable and the costs are on the maker.

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kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

One thing I feel is that the current domain idea generators have a complicated UI wrapped on top of AI which makes it hard to iterate on the ideas and have a follow up conversaion. I felt that having a chat UI with availablity check is a better way to handle that. This is just the initial version and I am going to improve the prompts probabally finetune it to give better results. Also I will write the blog post soon.

dutchbrit1y ago

Cool - not sure I'd want my prompt to be seen by others (which you can achieve by changing the incremental id in the url). Maybe use a uuid instead if you want to make it shareable?

kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

Sure, Thanks for the feedback. I will implement uuid also. You can consider signup if you want the url to be private. For now I have made guest searches public (As there is no identity involved)

hk__21y ago

You could also add a checkbox to make the URL private, like what Qualys SSL Server Test does. I’m not sure people want to sign up on yet another website (what will you do with my data? Where is your privacy policy?) just to generate domain names.

notsound1y ago

Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.

jefc11111y ago

Upvoted as I think it needs to be front and centre that the searches are public.

jefc11111y ago

Ended up finding a Mermaid Diagram(?) generator on the same site (with the same incrementing id vulnerability). I typed in "A LLM" as prompt and got a great response: https://huehive.co/tools/diagrams/5633

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opdahl1y ago

What do you mean you "taught" ChatGPT. In what way did you teach ChatGPT to find cool domain names?

anonymouse0081y ago

Just don’t front run us, ok?

reddalo1y ago

That's what I always wondered about this kinds of services. They could easily sniper all the cool domains they found for you.

tomschwiha1y ago

I guess that would be too expensive. Even if with all the new domain extensions you can just find an easy alternative.

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amelius1y ago

They, in turn, will be front-run by the availability checking service.

dgellow1y ago

That’s generally what they do

mikkom1y ago

I get very poor results from this. I get much better results when I just use chatGPT directly with some custom prompt that asks for good domain names. Here is just one example

> trading investment prestigious innovative fund quant

< trendtrackersite.com

< buzzviralnetwork.com

< chatterwavehub.com

< trendsnetworking.com

A4ET8a8uTh01y ago

I like the idea and clear UI. The initial results seemed off though ( got very unrelated name for a given prompt ).

growt1y ago

It gave me weird animal puns as suggestions, without any reference to animals in my query. Is there maybe some mixup in the backend, reuse of gpt conversations? Also FurryFriendsHub.com it’s apparently available if anyone is interested! ;)

scrapcode1y ago

My suggestions were completely out in left field.

ecmascript1y ago

I don't really get it how it works. I wrote down a bunch of keywords but what it spat out was a long sentence with most of the keywords and perhaps some related ones together.

Not really cool or useful to me.

Foxhuls1y ago

I’m going to be honest, this just sounds like user error to me. Try typing something simple like “Can you generate some domain names related to bike sales?”. The results aren’t perfect but I thought it was pretty interesting and fairly useful. If you’re doing nothing but typing keywords with no other information such as “Can you generate domain names relating to the following keywords” of course it’s just going to spit out those keywords.

mtmail1y ago

I typed two words and it generated some domain names. The website doesn’t explain if you should type in words or whole sentences.

kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

Thanks. I have also noticed this in some cases. Sometime GPT-3 does not follow the prompt. Please retry with a new query. It works in most cases. I will improve the prompt or to make sure this does not happen.

CoinFlip1y ago

Nice concept. More prompts for what to ask could be helpful. Didn't work for my prompt. The assistant regurgitated my request incorrectly.

blinding-streak1y ago

I asked for domains related to golf courses and it returned all pet related domains. I wonder what happened.

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outcoldman1y ago

I have never tried but I believe typingmind had this feature for a while.

McDyver1y ago

"Please generate domain names based on given query. Give multiple creative options. You are an expert domain name generator. Be presise and always output code in Domains Code <list of domains with new lines> format."

nmridul1y ago

Query

AI domain generator

domains

1. AiGeniusHub.com

2. IntelliAiWave.com

3. AiMasteryNetwork.com

4. SmartAiForge.com

5. AiSavvyLab.com

nwgale1y ago

Looks interesting. I'll try it.

nirvael1y ago

prompt: "domain name for site that sells tractors"

result: "nomadventurequest.com"

...at least we know that nomadventurequest.com is available I suppose, saves me less than one minute to look that up.

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RileyJames1y ago

How is this more useful than the current state of domain name idea generators, which also do a search for the availability of the domain?

It just seems, slower?

The feat of doing that with ai alone might make an interesting blog post. But the end result as a product isn’t something I’m going to use just because it’s using ai.

The job to be done is not to use ai to do x.

Tho I would be interested to read the blog post..

SketchySeaBeast1y ago

Not just slower, far more compute intensive.

giancarlostoro1y ago

Go has the same problem, which annoys me, a search engine company didn't think that one through.

Please, major corporations, give better names to your products that are unique enough to dominate search results. Invent new words for all I care.

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meowface1y ago

>and then insist that every decision and line of code they make runs through a giant Rube Goldberg machine before they type it.

If you've ever used Copilot, it's surprisingly fast. It definitely leads to net less time spent typing.

KaoruAoiShiho1y ago

People are self-interested. Electron only offers the maker of the tool value but not the end user. The end user finds AI extremely valuable and the costs are on the maker.

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kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

dutchbrit1y ago

Cool - not sure I'd want my prompt to be seen by others (which you can achieve by changing the incremental id in the url). Maybe use a uuid instead if you want to make it shareable?

kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

Sure, Thanks for the feedback. I will implement uuid also. You can consider signup if you want the url to be private. For now I have made guest searches public (As there is no identity involved)

hk__21y ago

notsound1y ago

Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.

jefc11111y ago

Upvoted as I think it needs to be front and centre that the searches are public.

jefc11111y ago

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opdahl1y ago

What do you mean you "taught" ChatGPT. In what way did you teach ChatGPT to find cool domain names?

anonymouse0081y ago

Just don’t front run us, ok?

reddalo1y ago

That's what I always wondered about this kinds of services. They could easily sniper all the cool domains they found for you.

tomschwiha1y ago

I guess that would be too expensive. Even if with all the new domain extensions you can just find an easy alternative.

1 more reply

amelius1y ago

They, in turn, will be front-run by the availability checking service.

dgellow1y ago

That’s generally what they do

mikkom1y ago

I get very poor results from this. I get much better results when I just use chatGPT directly with some custom prompt that asks for good domain names. Here is just one example

> trading investment prestigious innovative fund quant

< trendtrackersite.com

< buzzviralnetwork.com

< chatterwavehub.com

< trendsnetworking.com

A4ET8a8uTh01y ago

I like the idea and clear UI. The initial results seemed off though ( got very unrelated name for a given prompt ).

growt1y ago

scrapcode1y ago

My suggestions were completely out in left field.

ecmascript1y ago

I don't really get it how it works. I wrote down a bunch of keywords but what it spat out was a long sentence with most of the keywords and perhaps some related ones together.

Not really cool or useful to me.

Foxhuls1y ago

mtmail1y ago

I typed two words and it generated some domain names. The website doesn’t explain if you should type in words or whole sentences.

kamalkishor1991OP1y ago

CoinFlip1y ago

Nice concept. More prompts for what to ask could be helpful. Didn't work for my prompt. The assistant regurgitated my request incorrectly.

blinding-streak1y ago

I asked for domains related to golf courses and it returned all pet related domains. I wonder what happened.

1 more reply

outcoldman1y ago

I have never tried but I believe typingmind had this feature for a while.