I had a free Saturday and a vague idea: what if you could describe what you're building and get name ideas back instantly?
No AI, no API calls. Just some keyword extraction and a handful of blending patterns. Here's how it came together.
The idea
The problem with naming things is that you stare at a blank text box and nothing comes. What you need is a starting point — something to react to, not a final answer.
So the goal was simple: take a description, pull out the meaningful words, and combine them in ways that sound like real product names.
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How it works
The algorithm has three main moves: suffix blending, prefix blending, and portmanteau creation.
Suffix blending takes a keyword and appends a suffix from a curated list — things like ly, hub, flow, forge. So "task" becomes "Taskflow" or "Taskhub".
Prefix blending does the opposite — prepend words like go, my, smart to a keyword. "Task" becomes "SmartTask" or "GoTask".
Portmanteau creation is the most interesting one. It takes the first half of one keyword and the second half of another and combines them. "remote" + "team" might give you "Reamote" or "Reteam".
What I learned
The hardest part wasn't the algorithm — it was deciding what not to do. My first instinct was to add an AI step to score and filter the results. I cut it.
The whole point of the tool is to give you something to react to. A perfect list of five names is less useful than a messy list of twenty, because the mess is what sparks ideas.
Sometimes the right move is to ship the rough version.