Built a free warrior cat name generator for one of the most passionate fandoms on the internet

Hey IH,

I want to share something a little different from the usual SaaS launch. No MRR, no paying customers, no waitlist. Just a free tool I built for a fandom I respect, with a plan to monetise it later through ads and affiliates once it has traffic.

The background

The Warriors book series by Erin Hunter has been running since 2003 and has one of the most dedicated fan communities in YA fiction. These readers write fan fiction, run Discord roleplay servers with hundreds of members, build fan games, create artwork, and produce content on TikTok and YouTube. One thing every single person in this community eventually needs is a warrior cat name because they are a core part of the fandom identity.

The problem is that every existing name generator for this niche is terrible. And I mean genuinely terrible. Random word combiners that produce names like Clouddog or Firerock that any Warriors fan would immediately recognise as wrong. The books have a deeply established naming system — prefixes from nature, suffixes that reflect personality, rank-specific rules that every fan knows by heart. None of the existing tools respected any of it.

I am not a Warriors fan myself. But I am a developer who builds tools, and I saw a gap that was embarrassingly easy to fill if you just put in the work to understand the source material.

What I built

StarClan.live — a warrior cat name generator that actually follows the lore.

• 80+ prefixes and 65+ suffixes, each manually reviewed against the books with meanings included

• Rank-specific rules enforced automatically (apprentices get paw, leaders get star, kits get kit)

• Three modes: Random, Custom (bring your own prefix/suffix), and Batch (up to 20 names at once)

• Filter by clan (ThunderClan, RiverClan, WindClan, ShadowClan, SkyClan) and rank

• Each result includes prefix meaning, suffix meaning, personality trait, and special ability

What I learned building this

Fandoms are underserved by developers. The Warriors community has millions of readers and almost no quality tooling built for them. The same is probably true for dozens of other book series, games, and fictional universes. These are not huge markets, but they are real, passionate, and loyal audiences who will share and link to something that actually works well.

Building for a niche you do not personally belong to is interesting. You have to do more research upfront, but you also approach the problem without assumptions, which sometimes leads to cleaner solutions.

The other thing I learned is that free tools with no backend are genuinely fast to build and essentially free to run. The entire site, including all the SEO infrastructure, legal pages, and blog system, took a focused sprint to complete. The ongoing cost is the domain. If it never makes a penny, it still costs me almost nothing.

Would love feedback on:

• The generator UX and whether the feature set makes sense

• The SEO article and whether it reads naturally

• Whether the monetisation plan (ads + affiliates later) makes sense for this type of tool

• Any other fandoms or niches you think are similarly underserved

Site: starclan.live

Thanks for reading. Happy to answer any questions about the build or the niche.