Have you ever picked a username online, only to realise ‘animefan’ is already taken on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr? Have you stared in despair at the sign up screen as it tells you you can have animal_fan instead? Yeah, me too. It's the quintessential modern problem. And this right here is a solution.

Username Availability Checker lets you input a username, and almost instantly find out if it’s been taken on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Soundcloud and Github. Seriously! Try it out now! No more late nights spent in regret! No more silent tears in the rain! Only one username that you can use anywhere on the internet.

This project was the result of an afternoon spent with my friend Manvendra trying to learn Python. We used Flask, a python framework, to create an API which checks if a username exists on a website. It’s all very clever, and you can read more about it on the project page on Github.