Borgwithus
Cocktail generator
A drink name generator with its own BORG AI, accounts, a community name wall, and so much more. Now averaging around 100 users.
The spark
What started as a list of puns turned into a real app. You can make an account, like or dislike names, and submit up to three of your own a day to the public wall, with an admin approving each one before it goes up. Then I added BORG AI for the names nobody has thought of yet.
The look
It's loud on purpose: big condensed type, ink and paper colors, and an acid accent. The jug builder breaks naming into three steps (name it, dye it, keep it), with a real photo for every flavor. I ran an accessibility pass on phones, which is how I found out the jug and its controls never fit on screen at the same time.
The engine
The front end is React on Netlify, with Supabase handling accounts, the database, and edge functions. BORG AI runs an open-source model on Runpod that scales to zero when nobody's using it, and code double-checks every name, so it actually swaps a sound for “borg” and isn't a repeat. There's also an admin studio for rating names and exporting training data to fine-tune the model.
The snags
In October 2026 I audited the whole thing and found some real holes. Likes could carry any text straight into the public top ten, failed AI calls always got refunded (which meant unlimited free generations), and “Sponge Borg” could show as approved but never reach the board, because it collided with “SpongeBorg”. Each one got a fix at the database level, plus password reset, which somehow never existed.
The road ahead
Borgwithus is still live and still getting updates. Next, I'm testing the classic generator against the jug builder to see which one gets more people to actually name a borg. Feel free to go name your own!
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