namegenerator.tech

Inspiration

Our project was largely inspired by the old Wu-Tang names generator website which was famously used by Donald Glover to create his rap name Childish Gambino. I used the same site to create my gamer tag in high school, however, I was disappointed in the site's ability to come up with good usernames for my friends, due to that not being its stated goal. Our project seeks to use the same concept, but with a focus on generating good sounding usernames.

What it does

Our website takes a user's name (or any other input) and it produces a user name consisting of a random adjective and noun based on a seed generated by the name entered by the user. While simple, our site can produce over 2 million unique user name combinations.

How we built it

Our website is based on HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into several challenges in our project given our lack of website experience. One of our earliest issues we had was pulling names from a list, which we eventually got around by hard coding the lists into the program. We also ran into several problems with our user input and generating output when using javascript, which we eventually figured out with the help of a mentor. We also ran into issues with getting our website to show up with our domain. We ended up learning how to use GitHub Pages to get it running.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are extremely proud of our website's look and feel. Our team has no prior website development experience, so the fact that our site functions as well as it does is a source of pride for us. We also feel like our project is something genuinely useful to a lot of people of all walks of life.

What we learned

We learned a lot about web development and hosting. Prior to this project, we had no experience making a real website or putting it online. We learned a lot about HTML, CSS, Javascript, GitHub, and Amazon web services throughout the process of this project.

What's next for namegenerator.tech

We hope to keep our website running as long as possible for people to use. We have plans to introduce a name generator as well for users to generate fantasy names or aliases.