I had a problem.
I wanted to build another website.
Not another personal blog. Not another AI wrapper that generates something nobody needs.
I wanted to build a small English website for foreigners who want a Chinese name.
The idea was simple enough:
You enter your English name and a few preferences.
The website gives you a Chinese name.
But I didn’t want it to be just another random Chinese name generator.
I wanted to try something more ambitious.
The free version would consider things such as the Five Elements, traditional Chinese naming habits, character meanings, pronunciation, and cultural associations.
If someone wanted something more personalized, they could pay for deeper AI-assisted naming.
And eventually, I had an even stranger idea:
What if the Chinese name could come with a digital Chinese seal?
And, one day, maybe I could actually have a physical seal made and mailed to the customer.
At that point, I realized I wasn’t just choosing a domain for a little web tool.
I was choosing the name of a potential small business.
So I asked AI for help.
Not one AI.
Five.
I asked five AIs the same question
I used Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Doubao.
First I asked them to help me think about the market.
What China-related topics have enough English search demand to justify building a website?
The answers went in all kinds of directions.
China travel.
China sourcing.
Chinese culture.
Chinese zodiac.
Chinese language.
Chinese names.
Eventually, I became increasingly interested in one particular idea:
Chinese Name Generator.
It had something I liked.
People weren’t just searching for information.
They wanted to do something.
They wanted to know:
“What would my name be in Chinese?”
That is a much more interesting starting point for a small website.
So I asked the five AIs for domain names.
And that’s where things became unnecessarily complicated.
I ended up with 12 domains
After checking what was actually available, I had these:
- ChineseNameCraft.com
- ChineseNameGen.com
- NameForChina.com
- NameInHanzi.com
- ChineseNameArt.com
- NameZodiac.com
- RedSealName.com
- ChineseNamesHub.com
- ChineseNameHouse.com
- GenerateChineseName.com
- HanNameGen.com
- PinyinName.com
Now I had another problem.
Which one should I buy?
I could have simply picked one myself.
But I had already asked five AIs for advice, so I decided to do something slightly ridiculous.
I turned them into a jury.
The rules
The rules were deliberately simple.
Each AI had to score all 12 domains from 0 to 10.
But there was one important rule:
Every AI had to choose exactly one 10/10 winner.
No “these three are equally good.”
No hiding behind a list of recommendations.
Pick one.
Then I would show each AI the results from the other four and run a second round.
I wanted to see whether there was actually a consensus.
Or whether five AIs would simply give me five different answers.
Round One
The first round was exactly what I expected.
There was disagreement.
Grok liked ChineseNameGen.com.
ChatGPT chose ChineseNameCraft.com.
Gemini also chose ChineseNameCraft.com.
DeepSeek chose ChineseNameCraft.com.
Doubao chose ChineseNameCraft.com.
So there was already a leader.
But I wasn’t completely convinced.
ChineseNameGen.com was extremely attractive.
It is short.
It is obvious.
It contains “Chinese Name”.
And “Gen” is easy to understand once you see it in the context of AI tools.
If my only goal was to build a free Chinese name generator and get people from Google, I might have chosen it.
But my website wasn’t supposed to stop there.
I wanted to see if the domain could survive the next five years of the idea.
So I ran Round Two.
Then something unexpected happened
I gave all five AIs the complete results from Round One.
I asked them to reconsider every domain.
This time they knew what the other models had chosen.
And the result was almost absurdly clean.
All five chose the same winner.
Not 9.5.
Not 9.8.
10 out of 10.
The final vote
| Domain | Grok | ChatGPT | Gemini | DeepSeek | Doubao |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChineseNameCraft.com | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| ChineseNameGen.com | 9.4 | 9.8 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 9.3 |
| GenerateChineseName.com | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.6 |
| NameInHanzi.com | 8.3 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.2 |
| ChineseNameArt.com | 8.0 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.4 |
The winner was:
Five models.
Five perfect scores.
That was enough for me.
I bought the domain.
Why “Craft” won
This was actually the part I found most interesting.
“Chinese Name” was easy.
Everyone agreed that was the core keyword.
The real question was the last word.
Why Craft?
Because “Generator” describes a function.
“Gen” describes a tool.
But Craft describes an approach.
A generator can randomly combine characters.
Craft implies that someone — or something — is deliberately making a choice.
That fits what I want this website to become.
A Chinese name isn’t just two characters copied from a database.
At least, I don’t want mine to be.
I want to consider:
Does the pronunciation sound natural?
Do the characters have good meanings?
Would a Chinese person actually use this name?
Does the combination create an unfortunate meaning or joke?
Does the name fit the person’s gender and personality?
Does it make sense according to traditional Chinese naming ideas?
And, for users who want something more advanced, can AI help refine the result?
That is much closer to crafting a name than simply generating one.
But I still don’t know if the AIs are right
This is the part that matters.
Five AIs agreeing doesn’t mean they are correct.
They can all be wrong.
And they certainly can’t tell me whether people will actually use the website.
They can’t tell me whether someone will pay $29 for a personalized Chinese name.
They can’t tell me whether anyone will pay $99 for a premium package.
And they definitely can’t tell me whether someone will eventually buy a physical Chinese seal from a website built by a guy experimenting with side projects.
Only the market can answer those questions.
That’s why I decided to build it.
So now the experiment has actually started
The domain is no longer an idea.
The website is live.
The next version will include the basic name generator.
Then I’ll add more sophisticated naming logic.
Then AI-assisted naming.
Then, if people actually want it, premium reports.
And eventually, maybe the digital Chinese seal.
Maybe even a physical one.
I don’t know yet.
That’s the interesting part.
I’m not building this because five AIs told me it would succeed.
I’m building it because they gave me enough confidence to try.
There is a big difference.
What happens next?
I started this experiment with a domain name.
Now I have to find out whether the domain deserves a business.
Maybe ChineseNameCraft will get thousands of visitors.
Maybe it will get ten.
Maybe someone will pay me $29.
Maybe nobody will.
I’ll find out the old-fashioned way:
Build it. Put it online. Let people decide.
That’s really what this website is about.
Not proving that AI can build a successful business for me.
Just seeing what happens when an ordinary person uses AI to help him try.
The domain was chosen by five AIs.
The website will be judged by humans.
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