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Snow HN: Choosing a name for your project is hard. This makes it easier.

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I'm red-green colorblind and the dots are extremely hard to see (at least for me). Any chance you might change them to be further apart in color, or use different colors? Blue and red, for instance, would not cause the same issue for me. Love the idea, though!

ah, that's a great point! what're the best colors for indicating success and failure to red-green color blind folks?

Any pair of colors except (red, green).

Another perspective -- since red and green are very universal colors for success/failure, stop/go, etc., you could also choose to keep the red and green colors but change the dots to a checkmark and X glyph (or similar).

Yep, just made this change actually. I agree with the universality of the meaning of red and green. I also liked using those colors since it makes the resulting table much quicker to scan. Changing the marks from circles to useful symbols is probably much better than coming up with arbitrary success/failure colors. Thanks for the tip!

I'm red/green as well and agree the glyph is the best way to go.

Jenkins actually uses red/blue for this reason.

There exist colorblindness simulators. Vischeck is one, but it's apparently down.

This one acts on existing web pages: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.google.com;l=0;j=...

Couldn't you have come up with a better name ;-)

haha I built this while trying to find a name for another project I'm working on. Didn't want to buy a domain just for this.

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I hate it when people try to pull one over on me, but thanks for at least being honest. I have to admit that you're shooting high since the population of bright individuals is pretty high here.

Yah, hadn't noticed the typo until a while after I had posted it. Would love if a moderator would change the title.

I never notice until the edit link disappears, then there's a flood of changes that rushes into my head. So I guess I know what you mean.

A thought: when one of the roll-your-own prefix/suffix boxes are filled out, a new one should appear. Great tool!

Noticed some console.log statements in the .html source. Isn't this invalid for internet explorer? It would probably stop execution once the error is triggered

Yikes, is it really invalid in IE? I left those in cause I was constantly debugging that progress bar, but I'll definitely take them out if they're causing problems for anyone.

I like the Twitter and Facebook check but it really needs to take your input and turn that into suggestions not just combinations.

"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments."

Just spun up some more dynos so it should be back up and snappy again!

Ok, thanks it's working now. What I was expecting was that it would be more automatic, in terms of automatically checking .cc, .co, ly, and various other common variations.

Minor bug: the <title> says "Startup Naming".

Fixed, thanks!

But snow is fine.

Cool idea.

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