About Online Generator Hub

How This Started

Okay, so last year I was working on this fantasy novel. Had the plot figured out, characters mostly developed, world-building done. Then I got to this one character and couldn’t figure out what to name him. Figured it’d take maybe ten minutes. Three hours later, I’m still scrolling through baby name websites at midnight, getting nowhere.

The generators I found online were useless. Half of them gave me unpronounceable garbage like “Xqrthnok” and the other half gave me boring stuff like “John the Dark.” Nothing felt right. I kept thinking each name was almost there, but not quite. You know that feeling? Drives you crazy.

Finally I just thought, screw it, I’ll make my own. Took me most of the weekend but I got something working that actually gave me names I could use. Fixed my problem.

Few weeks go by, I’m playing WoW Classic and need a name for my rogue. All the decent names were obviously taken years ago. Not trying to be “xXShadowkillerXx” or whatever. So I tweaked that generator I’d made. Worked great.

Then my friend Sarah who’s also a writer mentioned she was stuck trying to find Japanese names for her characters. Spent like two weeks reading about how Japanese names actually work, talked to some people, built her a generator. She used it, said it helped, posted about it somewhere, and suddenly random people were emailing me asking to use it.

That’s basically how this whole thing happened. Started with me being annoyed, turned into something other people found useful. Now we’ve got 35 generators and I keep adding more whenever I think of something or someone asks for it. You can check out our main site page.

What We’re Doing Here

I’m not gonna give you some bullshit mission statement. Here’s the deal – creative people get stuck on dumb stuff sometimes. Naming things is weirdly hard. Finding the right words is weirdly hard. We make tools that help with that.

You’re writing and need a character name? We’ve got you. Playing D&D and your DM just asked what the innkeeper’s name is? Got that too. Need to format text for Instagram? Yeah, there’s a generator for it. Just trying to procrastinate? Cool, click around, I don’t judge.

How We Do Things

It’s All Free – I hate subscription services. Not doing that to people. Everything here is free, period. Not “free trial” or “free tier with limits.” Just free.

No Account Required – You don’t need to give me your email to generate a name. Why would you? That’s stupid. Click the thing, get your result, leave. Easy.

Mobile Works Fine – Built everything on my old laptop but I test it all on my phone during my commute. If it sucks on mobile, I fix it before it goes live. Pretty simple.

Loads Fast – My internet at home is garbage tier. Like, embarrassingly slow. These generators had to load fast for me or I’d go insane. They do.One Button, That’s It – Click button, get result. Don’t like it? Click again. That’s the whole interface. No complicated settings unless you specifically want to mess with the advanced options.

Who Actually Uses This

All kinds of people, honestly. Some I expected, some I didn’t.

Writers – Makes sense since that’s why I built the first one. You’re up at 3am working on your novel and need to name someone fast. Or you’re writing a short story and realized you called three different characters variations of “Mike.” Been there.

Gamers – WoW players needing character names. D&D groups who need to name seventeen NPCs they didn’t plan for. People who play rogues and want edgy names that don’t sound like a teenager picked them. I’ve played rogues for years, I know exactly what you’re going for.

Parents – The analytics show a lot of traffic between midnight and 4am. Pretty sure that’s expecting parents who can’t sleep scrolling through names. Not really what I built this for but if it helps, cool.

YouTubers and Social Media People – Need fancy text for thumbnails or posts. The stylish name generator gets used way more than I thought it would.

Students – Creative writing assignments, random projects, whatever. Sometimes you just need something that sounds good and you need it by tomorrow. People Who Like Clicking Stuff – Some visitors just generate random things for fun. I’ve done the same thing on other sites so I get it.

Why We’re Different

There are tons of generator sites out there. Some are way older than this one. But people keep coming back here and I think it’s because I actually give a shit.

The Native American name generator took almost a month. Not because the code was hard – it wasn’t. Because I wanted to do it right. Read a bunch of books, looked through online resources, talked to people who knew more than me about it. Still not perfect, but it’s respectful and accurate as I could make it.

Korean names were similar. My buddy Jin-Ho literally sat with me for hours explaining how Korean naming conventions work. Couldn’t have done it without him.

Everything gets tested to death before it goes live. The villain name generator got rebuilt five times because it kept giving me results that sounded stupid. If it’s not good enough for me to use, it doesn’t go up.

Also, about half the generators here exist because someone emailed me suggesting it. The speech bubble thing? User idea. The Invincible title card generator? Someone asked if I could make it. Turned out I could.

And we’re not doing anything creepy with your data because we’re not collecting it. Generate whatever. We don’t know, don’t care, don’t want to know.

What’s Here Right Now

35 generators last time I counted. Thirteen are name generators – different RPG classes, cultural names, fantasy stuff, city names, whatever. The rest are text formatting tools and random creative generators people asked for.

No ads yet. Might need to add some eventually to pay for server costs, but if I do they won’t be annoying. No pop-ups, no videos that autoplay, none of that crap that makes you want to leave immediately.

How I Build These

Someone has a problem or I have a problem. That’s step one. Then I research it, which usually takes longer than you’d think. For cultural name generators especially, I’m not just making stuff up. I’m reading about traditions, meanings, patterns, how names actually work in different cultures.

Then comes coding, which is fun. Then testing, which is less fun. Then I find bugs. Then I fix them. Then I test more. Then I find more bugs. It’s a whole thing.

Easy generators take maybe a day or two. The complex ones? Weeks or months. Japanese names took three weeks because I kept finding things I’d done wrong and had to start over.

What’s Next

Got a list of stuff to build. More cultural name generators – Arabic, Irish, and Norse are the ones people ask about most. More RPG class stuff. Some text tools people keep requesting.

Whatever I build next will be something people actually need. Not just something I can build because it’d be technically interesting.

What You Can Count On

Staying Free – Maybe I’ll add some basic ads to cover server costs, but no paywalls. Not doing the premium subscription thing where you have to pay for the good features. That’s annoying.

Getting Better – When I figure out a better way to do something, I change it. When someone points out a problem, I fix it. The site’s way better now than it was six months ago.

Actually Listening – Send me ideas, send me bug reports, tell me what you used the generators for. I read everything. Reply to most of it when I’m not drowning in code.Staying Simple – Not adding features just to add features. If it doesn’t make the generators better or easier to use, it’s not getting added.

Talk to Me

Got a generator idea? Something broken? Want to tell me you used the fairy name generator to name your cat? Send a message. I read them all.

This started because naming one character took three hours and I got pissed off about it. Turns out a lot of other people had the same problem.

Thanks for using the site. Go make something.