Category Archives: Websites

Have you ever been stuck naming a new project?

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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Enter Mixnomer! Mixnomer is this cool new web tool that helps you find a domain name for that new idea, blog, company, or side project that you’ve been wanting to get off the ground. It’s what I used to find the name for Simply Curated and it helped me find a great domain that I never would have thought to try.

The tool is super easy to use, enter keywords or possible words you’d like in the name. Let’s say you want to open a vegan bakery (not the most original startup idea, but just go with it). I enter the keywords vegan, bakery, baking, treats, cakes, simple, healthy, chocolate, tasty, delish. Then I enter the prefixes little, and the. Then pick some suffixes like, ous, ly, and shop. Mix it up and here’s what I got.

More options than I could show you! Mixnomer not only shows you the available domain, but if the twitter username is available as well. Right now the list is ordered by the number of characters in the URL. But I can rearrange to show my favorites on top.

Some of my favorites from this search were DELISHVEGAN.COM, LITTLETASTY.COM, THEDELISH.COM, lots of options I would have never thought would be available domains.

So play around with it, I’d love to see what cool domains you guys come up with! (full disclosure, mixnomer is a company I have been consulting for, but I honestly think it’s an awesome product!)

Cataloging Inspiration

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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For over 6 months now I’ve been meaning to write a post about my love for Svpply. Svpply is a site that allows you to save what you may want to buy later from any retail website. I’ve been using it more like  virtual storage for all the things I like. In the beginning that was mostly clothes and accessories, but more and more it’s becoming more of a place for me to keep a catalog of products that inspire me.

Svpply is frequently compared to Pinterest. Pinterest lets you catalog the things you love. It has similar features to Svpply in that it allows you to grab images from the web and “pin” them. But it also acts like a social bookmarking tool, letting you place things into categories, called pinboards.

This is a style pin board by my friend Patrice. Unlike Svpply, Pinterest allows you to add text to the photos you are saving. It also has features similar to Tumblr. Users can “re-pin” a post, like it, or leave a comment.

I find both these tools more visual and more appealing than traditional bookmarking sites like Delicious. I love just scrolling through the main page on Svpply, and discovering new things from the people and stores I follow.

What are you using to save inspiration on the web?