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Quick thoughts:

-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.

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> -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.

NameNgine?

I find naming anything where:

- lastletter of first word

- firstletter of last word

are the same thing gets confusing.

nameengine.com

Maybe this is just me, but I went as far as selecting my first phone number so that it's easy to remember as well

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.

> 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! :-)

For counterpoint, I think the name is fine. It's a portmanteau of "name" and "engine" and made immediate sense to me.

Thanks, that was our intention indeed. Yet, the comments above yours made us realised that there is a long way ahead of us with building a great product.

I also stuttered in my mind while parsing the name.

The feedback being subjective doesn't detract from it at all since that's all there is.

I saw something with engine in there too. And I think we’re supposed to(?).

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 thought it was going to be something where you type in a theme word and it adds -ly or .io on the end.

I'm pleasantly surprised at what it turned out to be.

I think the latter point is somewhat subjective indeed. I was reading it as an almost-anagram of "imagine" and also "name genie" :)

I think it's a great hack way to collect ideas from others and execute them. I should do something like this when I out of ideas.

I beliebe that idea is only a couple of % of the new venture. People and their ability to execute is the vast majority of any business success. You know, no one would pith in front of the investors if they were afraid of being robbed by investors. Eventually our mission is to protect our users IP, not steal it from them...

The name is horrible. I had no idea that it would lookup trademarks. Once I saw what it did I came away impressed.

”Nameinator” had a nice ring to it.

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