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Hey HN!

I've always loved beautiful words. I also enjoy coming up with fun names for all the side projects and businesses that I'm working on, trying to find something unique with an available .com.

After spending countless hours brainstorming names for different stuff, I built Spellsurf.

It lets you explore words and combine their syllables to create new ones. You can also set rules for the generated words, making it easy to search for names that fit what you're looking for.

People say to open a dictionary to a random page when you're looking for ideas. Spellsurf is like that, just a bit faster!

I've already found tons of interesting available .com's using it (spellsurf.com was one of them!)

I recommend setting it to generate one- or two-syllable words and combining those for the best results for catchy "startup-y" names.

Hope it helps or inspires you, and I'd love to hear any feedback!

/Alex

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Nice job.

A lot of early “fantasy word” generators worked in a similar way - by using n-grams at a character (or character chunk) level rather than the word level even if the breaks didn’t align with syllables.

I don't know if it was ever done - but adapting a Markov model built out against a corpus of word IPAs treating each phoneme as a symbol in the chain would have produced better results as well.

I love this. It's so difficult to coin words that both sound familiar but are unique.

It almost like a slot machine, the perfect word combo might come on the next spin haha! I'm glad you like it.

I would like it more if it didn't blur during generation. I can see through the blur that it has already made the word, so I don't really get the point of hiding it from me.

Should feel faster now. When it has fetched both words it reveals them instantly, the blur only happens on the fade out animation while the fetch is happening. Thanks for the feedback!

Love this! I wish i had it last week.

cheers! what were you doing last week?

Some of my favorites: Disquake obvermeiled obinn

i'm curious how did you make the two word-gen merge so naturally ?

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