Description

As a phonemic encoding, @p's sometimes coincide with English words, roughly or exactly. The varying intepretability of Urbit IDs enhances their collectibility and brings a certain charm to Urbit that can serve as a marketing tool. A simple interface for finding a @p that resembles a particular word or phrase, such as ~hinter-lander or ~sollur-midnyt, will help people get excited about joining the Urbit network.

A separate project has expressed desire for this functionality, as well as sigil search, fuzzy semantic search, and foreign language support including foreign script transliteration. I will create this program and publish it as an open-source Hoon library and as a static application on my website. I've already created such a program for finding exact matches of arbitrary phrases in @p substrings: https://github.com/lynko/urbit-names

Milestone 1

ETA: August 2, 2024

Reward: 2 stars

Delivery of library and application.