Show HN: Search Domain and Username in the same place

[ydant]

Your design is difficult for people with non-typical color vision. Your indicators for available/taken need to have at least two different differentiators - either a symbol+color, symbol+text, or color+text.

For (even partially) color-blind people, solely using color doesn't have as strong of a meaning. In this case, it's not that I can't tell the colors apart - I can - but I can't immediately infer what the colors mean. The way I interact with colors is that they just don't have as strong of an implicit meaning as it seems they do for "normal" color vision people (probably because my color perception betrayed me too many times for me to develop a trust/dependency over the years).

You can infer the available/not from the pop-out link, but that's disconnected from the status color icon, which makes it less intuitively connected.

The color as distinguishing factor also has a cultural aspect - I think you're using stoplight colors, which are probably fairly safe, but it definitely doesn't hurt to help out people from a wide range of backgrounds / capabilities by adding another factor to distinguish.

[rajasimon]

These are valuable feedback and I thank you for that. I'm new to tailwind ecosystem and totally new to design as well. I will change look based on your comments.

[Hakeemmidan]

This doesn't seem to work [to me]. I searched my GitHub username and it shows that it's available although I currently use it.

[rajasimon]

I get people complaining about Facebook user search but not Github. I'm using this API to check GitHub username availability.

https://api.github.com/users/yournamehere

Tell me the above one is working for you or not?

[jack335]

Same issue for my username as well

[jack335]

Looks really cool and useful +1

Instagram doesn't work for me and github names show available even when they are not. Other than that really cool.

If it gets enough traffic you can surely monetize it with some affiliate links to domain portals :)

[solfox]

Yes, Instagram is showing green when usernames are not available.

[tailspin2019]

Not sure if it’s hit some API limits behind the scenes but quite a few searches seem to incorrectly show the name as available on GitHub and YouTube (and possibly other listed sites - I didn’t check them all).

[taubek]

Looks like great idea. You could expand it to more domains.

[chewmieser]

Got a hit for .co and .so for kdfjsklj, which isn't registered with either.

Facebook search also didn't detect most queries I tried.

[aaln]

This is pretty cool and useful. It seems to be taking a while to load, would love to see it in action.

[rajasimon]

I didn't expect this in front page. Somehow my celery is stopped running now I restarted it. Also Instagram disable my account for checking the username availability. I resume all things hope now it's working fine.

[Mandatum]

We broke it!

[rajasimon]

lol so true. I do have the higher server configuration that take care of HN load but my celery is not working properly. I changed to immediate tasks instead of async one with countdown=0 and added autoscale in configuration. let's see what else is breaking...

[nojs]

What is pxf.io, where the .com link goes? Is it some kind of affiliate tracker?

[jeroenhd]

uBlock Origin blocks it. The WHOIS points to https://impact.com/, some kind of marketing company. Looks like it's a tracker alright.

[erikig]

I’ve always used knowem but I prefer this UI

[rajasimon]

I didn't know that this knowem existed and I thank you for liking my design over that. Few people asked me to include more extensions but I think that will pollute the UI. I will think of something nice UI that blends with existing UI and also include more extension over time.