NameKit
AI naming tools for developers and startup founders
I built NameKit because I kept running into the same wall: I'd have a project ready to build and spend more time trying to find a name and an available domain than actually building it.
Every tool I tried was built for marketing teams or brand agencies. Nothing was built for a developer who just wants a clean GitHub repo name, a available .dev domain, and a tagline that doesn't sound like it was written by a committee.
I'm a developer myself. I know what it's like to stare at a blank repo name field at midnight. So I built the tool I wanted to use.
Right now NameKit has six generators: project names, app names, startup names, domain names, GitHub repo names, and taglines. All free, no signup.
In two years I want it to be the first place developers and indie hackers go when they need to name something. Not a branding agency. Not a generic business name generator built for e-commerce stores. Something actually built for the way developers think and work.
I use it myself every time I start something new. That's the honest answer for why I won't stop working on it.
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The real shift here isn’t naming tools—it’s removing the cognitive overhead between “I have an idea” and “I can start building it.”
Most naming tools optimize for creativity or branding polish, but developers don’t need branding at that stage. They need immediate availability, low friction, and names that don’t block execution. That makes this less about naming and more about reducing pre-build friction.