diff --git a/src/utils/parseNameAndPath.ts b/src/utils/parseNameAndPath.ts
index 97425828b9..911fdde3cb 100644
--- a/src/utils/parseNameAndPath.ts
+++ b/src/utils/parseNameAndPath.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  *  Parses the appName and its path from the user input.
  * Returns an array of [appName, path] where appName is the name put in the package.json and
  *   path is the path to the directory where the app will be created.
+ * If the appName is '.', the name of the directory will be used instead.
  * Handles the case where the input includes a scoped package name
  * in which case that is being parsed as the name, but not included as the path
  * e.g. dir/@mono/app => ["@mono/app", "dir/app"]
@@ -12,6 +13,11 @@ export const parseNameAndPath = (input: string) => {
 
   let appName = paths[paths.length - 1];
 
+  // If the user ran `npx create-t3-app .` or similar, the appName should be the current directory
+  if (appName === ".") {
+    appName = process.cwd().split("/").pop();
+  }
+
   // If the first part is a @, it's a scoped package
   const indexOfDelimiter = paths.findIndex((p) => p.startsWith("@"));
   if (paths.findIndex((p) => p.startsWith("@")) !== -1) {