Show HN: Name Checker – check your project name accross many sites

namechecker.leandrosf.com

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Very convenient.

Small suggestion — include a link to the name in each repository.

second it ..

Done!

Yeah, I found yours through @rauchg of Vercel the other day, and thought you were posting it now on HN:

https://x.com/rauchg/status/1688345246399344640

If this were my project I think I would provide some reassurances that the site doesn't keep records of project names or results and that none of it will be used to register accounts.

Several domain search websites over the years have been credibly accused of using info gleaned from searches to pre-register domains and accounts in order to take advantage of user's information.

It's a valid concern, but i can't see how i can approach that, because in the end with this running on my server i can be watching in many ways.

I think the best option here is to maintain a cli version, that's something i've been thinking about.

You could use something similar to the k-anonymity approach from haveibeenpwned: https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...

Am I the only one getting an error about the website's SSL certificate?

The ssl is provided by cloudflare

Very cool! Is this open-source? It would be cool to add a few sources to this (like https://hackage.haskell.org).

It will be open source as soon as i let the code more readable.

For now, i added the haskell check, you can try now :)

And of course, if you have any suggestions i'll be happy to read!!

Works well! Who would have guessed that the name "foobar" is taken on so many platforms? :P

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