Pun Finder

Give me a word, I'll give you some puns. Try it out here! Also available as an Alexa skill.

A few days ago, a friend was looking for a new Instagram handle. Many Instagram handles are puns (e.g. a person named Fred might have the handle "BreathOfFredAir"). I was curious to see if I could create an algorithm to find puns. Within about an hour in a Jupyter Notebook, I had something decent working. I made a website to show it off the day after, and got a decent amount of love around the internet. Here's hourly traffic numbers:

I initially posted to Show HN, then somebody posted on ProductHunt. I'm not sure what the second big spike is; feel free to email me with any theories!

In January 2018, I decided to learn something new by building a version of this as an Alexa skill. If you have an Alexa-enabled device, I would love to hear your feedback on the skill.

Reception

I'm happy to have made something that people like. For instance, here's some tweets:

We're obsessed with this "pun finder" at work and it's bonkers. I'm flying off the angela – Angela Dumlao
BEST WEBSITE EVER – Rob Bye
Give a dad a pun & he’ll make you groan for a day. Teach a dad to use Pun Finder and GOD HELP US ALL. – John Nack
Amazing. – Will Hook
Everyone loves puns. Here's a website full of them! – Honey
That there is a pun search engine online makes my heart happy – Robert Carnes
When all else fails in copy writing. – Jamie Falkowski
Hello internet. if you're tired of the debate and constant fear: here, have a pun generator – Rushi Bhavsar

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