harvestmoon

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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Competition isn't necessarily a bad thing, imo. A lot of companies and successful businesses enter a field where there is a proven demand and need and find a way to stand out.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Find out what tools and services the startups/projects are using. You can then put a link to those services and get a commission. :)
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Thanks, the kind words mean a lot. To be honest, I am not sure why the website has done so poorly in terms of search, but that is a good idea to reach out and try/get it on some top lists of web 2.0 name generators.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Thank you. Actually, in testing, the Namebird has been able to generate multiple names that are actual medication names. So there is something there, maybe I could modify it and make a version for use by pharmaceutical companies.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Thank you! Now that's the reaction I was hoping to get, hehe. Glad it helps and hope you find the perfect names for your projects!
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Thanks. Verisign is kind enough to let you sign up (for free, iirc) to get their list of taken .com domain names.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
The hosting isn't too bad, but I'm paying for a somewhat powerful server as I am a bit of a perfectionist and only want to run the software at maximum capacity, so to speak. It's not much, but over the years, it adds up.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Oh, cool! Glad it helped.
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even let's you make words via regular ex
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by harvestmoon 10y ago
Personally, I am a huge fan of Guy Noir. I wonder if he ever found out the secrets that the city was trying to keep from him - or if he found the answers to life's persistent questions... Guy Noir, Private Eye.
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Source code for my markov chain name generation tool, Namebird(github.com)
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by harvestmoon 11y ago
Yes, and as the wise narrator of this parody series points out, "What is most remarkable about this story is not that the dolphin knew the woman was sick, but that it knew she didn't know already."
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by harvestmoon 11y ago
If anything, I think lowering the barriers to entry should result in higher quality hit songs. For a hit song to occur, it has to become popular, which means a certain amount of oomph. So with 1000 songs to choose from for the hot 100, you
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
I don't. I think the dragon and angel references are there not because of an understanding of the game but rather to make it sound like what a powerful card should be. Obviously, to the reader who doesn't know MtG a rare dragon
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Case in point The Simpsons. What season are we on, the 25th?
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Reddit is a great site in what it does. And due to its nature, it has tremendous amount of niches, some of which are worth a lot of money if handled properly. For instance, /r/watches is an active area for discussion of watches.
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
It's an odd argument. Many technologies were dominant but their fall from the top generally has a reason.
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
I'd also like to hear more. This is HN - a great place to discuss your product/tool (at the right time, of course)
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Java doesn't seem too popular here but used right it can work pretty well, imo. For instance, I use Java for the backend of a name generator web app. It's astonishingly fast and displays results almost instantaneously despite run
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Fun article, thanks - gave me a good laugh!
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Ensuring quality when you randomly generate things is hard. I made a word generator tool. In doing so, for just 6-14 letter words, I had to develop a large amount of quality regulation formulas that would detect unnatural patterns ("x
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
I was biking down a hill about 10 years ago. Hit a bump or curve or something - either way, I flew off the bike about 5 feet forward and hit the ground directly head first almost as if I were diving into a pool of paved road. The helmet to
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Interestingly, a quite high amount of breakthrough treatments were discovered by accident. Antibiotics, the original antidepressants, antipsychotics, lithium, viagra and others were all found initially that way. Which may imply that our di
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Actually, the sweater covered in eyes at 2:52 is subtly reassuring. It represents how the device is always looking out for you.
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Agree. This really seems like it could be the start of a futuristic, dystopian horror movie. I think what makes it even more unsettling is that the people's voices are recorded naturally (the microphone several feet away) while the de
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Good catch (used Patio11 because off the top of my head can't think of other popular users by their handle). Anyway, to me it seems that, with the rare exception, HN is pretty good in each submission being judged on its own.
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
This may be the case, but it surprises me. In the 3-4 years I've used HN, I haven't noticed it. If you are a very well known user like patio, it's possible that you'll get a good amount of upvotes more easily. For most
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Thank you! Would very much like to see what you come up with when it's ready/hope you'll post it to HN.
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Hehe, launching something new you made is hard/takes persistence. Hope I'm not being annoying; seemed to be appropriate here and the other time I mentioned it in a comment on HN. Sorry to hear that. There actually is a tutorial&#
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by harvestmoon 12y ago
Bustaname is pretty nifty and useful. I'm also a fan of Namebird, a name generator that uses probability algorithms to make names that are catchy and memorable http://shobia.com/namebird (and only partly because I mad

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