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Discussion: New name ideas for this project #199

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konklone opened this issue Feb 25, 2018 · 0 comments
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Discussion: New name ideas for this project #199

konklone opened this issue Feb 25, 2018 · 0 comments

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konklone commented Feb 25, 2018

I think this project has crossed some key thresholds recently, that have taken it from a small utility optimized for a few people doing a narrow set of things, to something that has the potential to add significant value to a wide set of use cases.

I think the domain-scan name is a bit limiting (especially if the project were to more robustly handle alternate ports and scanning per-URLs), and doesn't get at the core reasons you might use the project.

In no particular order, here's what I see as the core reasons this project is valuable:

  • Tight, opinionated integration with two powerful pieces of infrastructure: Amazon Lambda and Google Chrome.
  • Lightweight setup and footprint: no interesting compilation or daemons needed, just local package installation in high-level languages. Local parallelization uses native Python threading.
  • Human-friendly output: creates aggregate CSVs intended for immediate human consumption, without requiring additional ETL work.
  • Database- and schema-agnostic: Just drops JSON and CSV files to disk. (And this could be pretty easily modded to allow data to be dumped to S3/etc instead of disk.)

I don't think the name needs to somehow explicitly hit all these points, but I do think it should help the project stand out more and evoke its core values.

Any thoughts or ideas?

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