How to name your project the way naming studios do (free Claude skill)

sardhak addepalli Posted on May 31 How to name your project the way naming studios do (free Claude skill) # ai # claude # opensource # branding Naming is the decision you can't easily take back, and it's the one most of us rush. Think for ten minutes, grab the first free word, regret it in a month when it turns out forgettable or already taken. The studios that name things for a living don't work that way. They run a careful process: lock the strategy first, generate widely, screen hard for trademark and language problems, then score what's left. The catch is they charge thousands for it. I wanted that process without the price tag, so I built it into a Claude Code skill called Nomira. It's free, it's open source, and it works well enough that it named itself. Here's how to use it, and how it works under the hood. Install You'll need Claude Code . Then the one-liner: npx skills add bazingga08/nomira Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Open Claude Code, type /nomira , describe what you're naming. Try it /nomira a budgeting app for freelancers who hate spreadsheets. calm and trustworthy, not a flashy finance-bro vibe. Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode A couple of questions later, you get a ranked shortlist, each name with a reason, sound notes, and a trademark risk flag. What it actually does It runs the same stages a studio would: Strategy first. It locks the one idea the name has to carry before generating anything. A vague brief is where most names go wrong. Wide generation. Hundreds of candidates, judgment switched off on purpose, so the good weird ideas survive. A quick cut, then a debate. Weak and copycat names get dropped, then a few expert viewpoints (strategy, sound, trademark) argue over what's left. Screening and scoring. Survivors get checked for trademark and cross-language problems, then scored by a deterministic program so the numbers match the reasoning. Two things that were hard to get right Scoring has to be mechanical or it quietly l