Scratch-my-own-itch brand name availability checker. Type a name, pick what kind of brand you're building, and Brandon only checks the platforms that matter.

Nuxt 4 + Nitro, Tailwind, Reka UI, deployed to Cloudflare Workers.

Social probes are best-effort — those sites block bots, so the UI tags them as probe. Domains, GitHub, npm, PyPI, Docker Hub and Bluesky hit real APIs.

Pick one or more to filter the checker set:

• Developer / SaaS — domains, package registries, Git hosts, deploy platforms
• iOS / mobile — App Store, Play Store, .app, launch-adjacent socials
• Consumer / social — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Threads, Facebook, .com
• Indie / creator — Substack, Gumroad, Patreon, Medium, Bluesky, short TLDs

Source of truth: app/utils/brand-types.ts.

pnpm install
pnpm dev         # http://localhost:3000

Nuxt is configured for the cloudflare_module preset (Cloudflare Workers):

pnpm build
pnpm exec wrangler deploy

1. Append an entry in app/utils/brand-types.ts:

   {
     id: 'producthunt',
     label: 'Product Hunt',
     category: 'social',
     brandTypes: ['ios', 'dev'],
     icon: 'simple-icons:producthunt',
     method: 'http-probe',
   }

2. Register a runner in server/utils/checkers/index.ts:

   producthunt: (name) =>
     httpProbe(`https://www.producthunt.com/@${name}`, {
       method: 'GET',
       availableWhen: 'status-404',
     }),

The UI, filtering and history pick it up automatically.

shared/types.ts               ← shared app + server types
app/
  utils/brand-types.ts        ← brand types + checker metadata (single source of truth)
  composables/
    useSearchState.ts         ← parallel fan-out with per-checker live status
    useSearchHistory.ts       ← localStorage-backed history
  components/                 ← SearchForm, BrandTypeSelector, ResultsGrid, ResultCard, HistoryPanel
  pages/                      ← index, recent, about
server/
  api/check/[platform].get.ts ← dynamic dispatch — one endpoint, many checkers
  utils/checkers/
    _base.ts                  ← httpProbe, timeout wrapper, result shape
    index.ts                  ← id → runner registry
    domain.ts, github.ts, …   ← one file per platform family

Search history lives in localStorage (brandon:history:v1, capped at 50, deduped on (name, brandTypes)). Nothing leaves the browser.

• AI naming suggestions — describe what you're building, get candidate names piped through the checker. The dream feature, the reason this exists.
• Pluggable paid WHOIS (Domainr, WhoisXML) for TLDs with weak RDAP coverage
• Authenticated rate-limit pools for GitHub / npm / Docker
• "Check similar" — Levenshtein-adjacent variants to find a nearby-available name
• Markdown / PDF report export
• CLI (npx brandon myname) reusing the same checker registry

MIT. Contributions welcome — the adding-a-checker guide above is the fastest way in.