I Built a Microservice Name Generator Because Naming Things Is Hard 🤖🌱

There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. I've made peace with cache invalidation. Off-by-one errors? I'll get to those eventually. But naming microservices? That one haunts me. You know the feeling. It's 10 AM. You've got a fresh service to build. The architecture is clear, the tickets are groomed, you're ready to go. Then someone asks: "What are we calling it?" And suddenly it's 11:30 and your team is in a heated Slack thread debating whether email-sender is too generic and outbound-notification-delivery-service is too long. I got tired of this, so I built a thing. The tool Microservice Name Generator . You describe what your service does, pick a naming style, and it gives you 5 names with README descriptions ready to copy-paste. That's it. That's the tool. But the fun part is how the names get generated. Two modes for two moods I built two naming styles because sometimes you're feeling creative and sometimes your archi