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Oh no. I managed to nerd snipe myself into Yet Another Side Project™ … again. Noooooo. #TooManyIdeas

… and upon publication it turns out the package name and netlify domain are already taken 🫤 So I generated a second side project named `namecheck` that allows me to check whether a name is available or not … and of course the `namecheck` name itself is ALSO already taken 😆

AFAIK the rules for NPM about what they consider "similar names" aren't public, so such tool will have false positives (negatives?) anyway.

Yeah, package names can still be revoked for that reason. But still it gives you a hint upfront about whether you should continue with the name or start thinking of something else.

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