Show HN: I taught ChatGPT to find cool domain names – with availability check
huehive.coHow 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..
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.
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.
I agree that's frustrating, but I doubt Microsoft will be able to ever outdo itself with its .NET Framework/.NET Core/.NET naming convention nonsense.
.NET 7 and beyond consolidates Framework and Core. I think they're going to just stick to just .NET moving forward. Eventually Framework and Core will be EOL'd.
I do agree though, they did it very confusingly.
It's definitely better sorted now, but as a dev working in the .Net stack during the .Net 2.0 Core time, it was very confusing.
2.0? ;) I started with 1.0.1, which had very confusing versions like 1.0.1.1 and other weird nonsense... I wanted to scream at Microsoft.
Don’t forget .NET Standard.
Their naming for all of this is a disaster.
Standard was supposed to be the in-between for Framework and Core if I'm not mistaken, that will likely be phased out and EOL'd.
Adding "-vscode" or "vs2019" to the query usually does it for me. With go I pretty much always search "golang".
>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.
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.
If we could convince all the people who hate Electron to code GUI stacks across the major programming languages that exist, maybe then we could get somewhere. Electron just gives you a consistent cross-platform environment to develop GUIs on using one of the most well known and understood technologies: front-end web.
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.
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?
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)
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.
Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.
Upvoted as I think it needs to be front and centre that the searches are public.
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
Some interesting design decisions going on here! If I type in "cats with hats" at https://huehive.co/tools/domain_search and get redirected to https://huehive.co/tools/domain_search/5643 I can then go to https://huehive.co/tools/diagrams/5643 and it tries to make a Mermaid Diagram for the prompt "cats with hats".
What do you mean you "taught" ChatGPT. In what way did you teach ChatGPT to find cool domain names?
Just don’t front run us, ok?
That's what I always wondered about this kinds of services. They could easily sniper all the cool domains they found for you.
I guess that would be too expensive. Even if with all the new domain extensions you can just find an easy alternative.
Well, hypothetically, if they do, then they just buy the `.com` and wait for the Startup/Company to become popular and sell it to them or their competitor(s). So far, any succeeding company beyond a certain clip, always buys the `.com` at a price, eventually.
I wish companies would stop doing that. Zoom(.us) shouldn't have bought zoom.com and Notion(.so) shouldn't have bought notion.com. Not only could they have saved a few million bucks for themselves (& by extension their users) on something which even to this day serves no purpose no other than redirection, but they could also have helped set precedents, reducing pressure on future companies to acquire .com domains.
They, in turn, will be front-run by the availability checking service.
That’s generally what they do
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
I like the idea and clear UI. The initial results seemed off though ( got very unrelated name for a given prompt ).
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! ;)
My suggestions were completely out in left field.
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.
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.
I typed two words and it generated some domain names. The website doesn’t explain if you should type in words or whole sentences.
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.
Nice concept. More prompts for what to ask could be helpful. Didn't work for my prompt. The assistant regurgitated my request incorrectly.
I asked for domains related to golf courses and it returned all pet related domains. I wonder what happened.
I have never tried but I believe typingmind had this feature for a while.
"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."
Query
AI domain generator
domains
1. AiGeniusHub.com
2. IntelliAiWave.com
3. AiMasteryNetwork.com
4. SmartAiForge.com
5. AiSavvyLab.com
Looks interesting. I'll try it.
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.