Ned Jackson Lovely has an interesting talk about just this thing!
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If you email hn at that domain, it'll get to me.
Enter a word, and this site will make up some puns for you based on that word. I'm way more proud than I have reason to be of this.
I scraped some idioms from the web, and take the 10 with the lowest score relative to the input word.
To score an idiom relative to an input word, I first convert the input word and each word in the idiom to phonemes (using cmudict [0]). I find the minimum Levenshtein distance between the input word's phonemes and the phonemes of a word in the idiom. The score for the idiom is that minimum distance divided by the number of phonemes in the word that had the minimum score.
The idea with dividing it is to give longer words a bit of a boost (though admittedly I didn't test that rigorously).
Something is slightly off about the mockups [1]. I'm not 100% sure what it is. Maybe the colors look too vibrant to be on an actual screen?
Were I to use it, I think it would play a role similar to Trello, which I'm using to manage a small project with a 5 person team.
Unrelated: I thought it was funny/cute that the items on the lists in the screenshot are whale-related.
Best of luck!