nicovalencia / startup-names

(Project) Graph of startup names

Startup Names

Rachel and Bing had a great idea to combine startup names by chaining prefix and suffix compounds. Hargobind and I developed an urge to write some code.

Setup

Install Node.js & NPM, then:

npm install

Data Files

• names.json : JSON array of company names to use
• words.json : JSON array of acceptable prefix/suffixes
• nodes.json : JSON array of "node" object (name, prefixes, suffixes)
• graph.json : JSON object of company names to an array of following company names
• units.json : JSON array of "unit" objects (id, chainPrefix)
• chains/[UNIT-ID].json : JSON object of results from work unit
• best.json : Processed result of best chains

Commands

• node names/crunchbase.js : Scrapes names from crunchbase into names.json
• node words/dict.js : Loads words from /usr/share/dict/words into words.json
• node nodes/words.js : Creates nodes by finding prefix/suffixes that are in words.json
• node nodes/hyphens.js : Creates nodes by using a hyphenation engine
• node graph/build.js : Builds nodes into a graph
• node units/chunk.js : Builds a list of work units from graph
• node chains/cache.js : Processes work units using a relatively simple result caching optimization
• node best.js : Combine results to find the best chain