feat: Show me more appends (exclude already-shown, look up only new domains); 36 per page; start over (v0.6.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XStQKxPfEjrTvWo83KFCxG

README.md

@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ bucket, and a 10-minute result cache.
 `(keywords, style, seed)` always yields the same list, so re-renders don't
 reshuffle results and a shared URL reproduces what the sender saw.
 
+The finder shows 36 names per page and **Show me more appends**: the names
+already on screen are passed as `exclude`, dropped before ranking, so each page
+is genuinely new (the seed alone would mostly reshuffle the same pool), and only
+the new domains get looked up. Changing keywords, style or extensions starts a
+fresh list; **start over** clears it. When the pool runs dry the app says so.
+
 Eight strategies (compound, suffix-word, action, blend, coined, clipped, root,
 domain hack) over the vocabulary in `src/lib/wordbank.ts`. The strategies are
 cheap and dumb on purpose — **quality comes from `scoreName`**, so tune the

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "names-poweredbyotm",
-  "version": "0.5.1",
+  "version": "0.6.0",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "next dev --port 3000",

src/components/Finder.tsx

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { AiControls } from "./AiControls";
 /** How many names to put on screen. Each one costs `selectedTlds.length`
  *  registry lookups, so this is the main dial on how hard we lean on the
  *  registries — keep it modest. */
-const NAME_COUNT = 24;
+const NAME_COUNT = 36;
 
 const STYLES: Array<{ id: Style; label: string; note: string }> = [
   { id: "balanced", label: "Balanced", note: "a bit of everything" },
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ export default function Finder() {
   // as a one-line summary so it's obvious whether AI actually contributed
   // (issue #3). null until a run completes.
   const [aiCount, setAiCount] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  // What the current list was built from. "Show me more" APPENDS while this
+  // matches; changing keywords/style/extensions starts a fresh list.
+  const [listKey, setListKey] = useState<string | null>(null);
   // Hide names whose every checked extension is taken (issue #3). Persisted.
   const [hideTaken, setHideTaken] = useState(false);
   const { saved, savedNames, toggleSaved, removeSaved, recheckSaved, copySaved, rechecking, copied } =
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ export default function Finder() {
   );
 
   const lookup = useCallback(async (domains: string[], myRun: number) => {
-    setPending(new Set(domains));
+    setPending((prev) => new Set([...prev, ...domains]));
 
     for (let i = 0; i < domains.length; i += BATCH) {
       if (runId.current !== myRun) return; // superseded by a newer search
@@ -129,17 +132,25 @@ export default function Finder() {
   }, []);
 
   const run = useCallback(
-    async (nextSeed: number) => {
+    async (nextSeed: number, append: boolean) => {
-      const myRun = ++runId.current;
+      // A fresh list abandons in-flight lookups; an append shares the current
+      // run so the earlier cards keep resolving.
+      const myRun = append ? runId.current : ++runId.current;
+      const base = append ? ideas : [];
       setBusy(true);
       setError(null);
-      setChecks({});
+      if (!append) {
+        setChecks({});
+        setPending(new Set());
+      }
 
+      const shown = new Set(base.map((i) => i.name));
       let list = generateNames({
         keywords: parsedKeywords,
         style,
         count: NAME_COUNT,
         seed: nextSeed,
+        exclude: shown,
       });
 
       // AI names: the visitor's own key if they saved one and asked us to use
@@ -154,11 +165,11 @@ export default function Finder() {
             ? await generateWithAi(ai, parsedKeywords, style, 16, brief)
             : await generateWithPlatformAi(parsedKeywords, style, 16, brief);
           if (runId.current !== myRun) return;
-          const seen = new Set(list.map((i) => i.name));
+          const seen = new Set([...shown, ...list.map((i) => i.name)]);
           const extra: Idea[] = aiNames
             .filter((n) => !seen.has(n))
             .map((name) => ({ name, strategy: "ai" as const, score: scoreName(name, parsedKeywords) }));
-          list = [...extra, ...list].slice(0, NAME_COUNT + extra.length);
+          list = [...extra, ...list];
           gotAi = extra.length;
         } catch (err) {
           setError(
@@ -168,18 +179,37 @@ export default function Finder() {
       }
 
       if (runId.current !== myRun) return;
-      setIdeas(list);
+      if (list.length === 0 && append) {
-      setAiCount(wantsOwnKey || wantsPlatform ? gotAi : null);
+        setError("That's everything the generator has for these keywords — try different words or a different style.");
+        setBusy(false);
+        return;
+      }
+      setIdeas([...base, ...list]);
+      setAiCount((prev) => (wantsOwnKey || wantsPlatform ? (append ? (prev ?? 0) + gotAi : gotAi) : append ? prev : null));
       setBusy(false);
       await lookup(domainsFor(list, tlds), myRun);
     },
-    [account, ai, brief, lookup, parsedKeywords, platformAi, style, tlds, useAi, usePlatformAi],
+    [account, ai, brief, ideas, lookup, parsedKeywords, platformAi, style, tlds, useAi, usePlatformAi],
   );
 
+  const queryKey = `${parsedKeywords.join(",")}|${style}|${[...tlds].sort().join(",")}`;
+
   const onGenerate = () => {
     const next = seed + 1;
     setSeed(next);
-    void run(next);
+    const append = listKey === queryKey && ideas.length > 0;
+    setListKey(queryKey);
+    void run(next, append);
+  };
+
+  const onStartOver = () => {
+    runId.current++;
+    setIdeas([]);
+    setChecks({});
+    setPending(new Set());
+    setAiCount(null);
+    setListKey(null);
+    setError(null);
   };
 
   const toggleTld = (tld: string) => {
@@ -256,7 +286,7 @@ export default function Finder() {
 
       <div className="controls">
         <button className="primary" onClick={onGenerate} disabled={busy || tlds.length === 0}>
-          {busy ? "Thinking…" : ideas.length ? "Show me more" : "Find names"}
+          {busy ? "Thinking…" : ideas.length && listKey === queryKey ? "Show me more" : "Find names"}
         </button>
 
         <label
@@ -355,6 +385,10 @@ export default function Finder() {
                 <>{ideas.length} names</>
               )}
               {hideTaken && hiddenCount > 0 ? <> · {hiddenCount} taken hidden</> : null}
+              {" · "}
+              <button type="button" className="linkish" onClick={onStartOver}>
+                start over
+              </button>
             </span>
             <label className="results-toggle">
               <input type="checkbox" checked={hideTaken} onChange={(e) => toggleHideTaken(e.target.checked)} />
@@ -378,7 +412,7 @@ export default function Finder() {
           </div>
           <div className="results-more">
             <button className="primary" onClick={onGenerate} disabled={busy || tlds.length === 0}>
-              {busy ? "Thinking…" : "Show me more"}
+              {busy ? "Thinking…" : listKey === queryKey ? "Show me more" : "Find names"}
             </button>
             <button type="button" className="mini" onClick={() => window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: "smooth" })}>
               Back to top ↑

src/lib/generate.ts

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ export interface GenerateOptions {
   count?: number;
   /** Changing this reshuffles the whole list. Same seed ⇒ same output. */
   seed?: number;
+  /** Names already shown — dropped before ranking so "show me more" appends
+   *  genuinely new ideas instead of a reshuffle of the same pool. */
+  exclude?: ReadonlySet<string>;
 }
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -309,7 +312,7 @@ const STYLE_WEIGHTS: Record<Style, Record<GeneratedStrategy, number>> = {
  * and only the top `count` survive.
  */
 export function generateNames(opts: GenerateOptions): Idea[] {
-  const { keywords, style = "balanced", count = 60, seed = 1 } = opts;
+  const { keywords, style = "balanced", count = 60, seed = 1, exclude } = opts;
   const rng = makeRng(seed);
   const { seeds, related } = expandKeywords(keywords);
 
@@ -408,7 +411,7 @@ export function generateNames(opts: GenerateOptions): Idea[] {
   }
 
   const ranked = [...pool.values()]
-    .filter((i) => i.score > 0)
+    .filter((i) => i.score > 0 && !exclude?.has(i.name))
     .sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score || a.name.length - b.name.length || a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
 
   return diversify(ranked, count);

src/lib/version.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // /changelog. Bump VERSION and prepend an entry when shipping a user-facing
 // change. Same convention as rpo.
 
-export const VERSION = "0.5.1";
+export const VERSION = "0.6.0";
 
 export interface ChangelogEntry {
   version: string;
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ export interface ChangelogEntry {
 }
 
 export const CHANGELOG: ChangelogEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.6.0",
+    date: "2026-08-17",
+    changes: [
+      "Show me more now adds to the list instead of replacing it, and only checks the new names — what you've already seen stays put and isn't looked up again. 36 names per page (was 24).",
+      "Each page is genuinely new: names already on screen are excluded before ranking, not just reshuffled. Changing keywords, style or extensions starts a fresh list; 'start over' clears it.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.5.1",
     date: "2026-08-17",