Dear (Soylent) designers, please stop comparing yourselves with big names like Kubrick or Rams. You designed a plastic bottle - no more, no less.
Designing a Bottle
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#92I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
Probably as a joke, but it served them well, it's really a clever name IMHO.
I think it all started as a few blog posts about the founder's experiments in creating his own meal replacement, and after he got crazy media attention he decided to turn it into a product.
Soylent as a name is instantly recognizable and has a sense of self-awareness/irony that many other products lack, I would be surprised if the name itself didn't contribute greatly to the initial media coverage.
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#93I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in about a month.
Re: Designing a Bottle
#94I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in about a month.
It's still called Jimmy Joy as far as I can see: https://www.jimmyjoy.com/
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#95I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in about a month.
The company still seems to be named Jimmy Joy, and the product Plenny Shake. Both somehow strike me as really terrible brand names. Can't find anything about a subsequent rename.
That said, I'm a customer of theirs, and daft names aren't going to change that.
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#96I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in about a month.
We like you too.
The company is still called Jimmy Joy. We decided to ask the community what the actual product should be called. Since we already had the 'Twenny Bar' we ended up choosing to name it 'Plenny Shake'
Re: Designing a Bottle
#97There are tons of bottles with that shape on the shelves of my local grocery store... It's quite common with any drink that isn't carbonated (and therefore doesn't have to contend with higher pressures). Juices, teas, etc...
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#98I wish they made a blog post about how they came about to think that Soylent was a good branding name. Having seen the movie, it makes me want to barf just looking at the bottle. This is not a joke, I actually feel nauseous because of the name.
My thoughts exactly.
The movie depicts a future in which nourishment has become purely functional -- not by choice, but because food resources are so scarce. (And to top it off, the function is served by the worst "waste" imaginable).
Now, instead of food, the scarce resource seems to have become time.
I understand that Soylent serves a purpose to some, but I believe we should strive to move away from that dystopian nightmare, instead of succumbing to it.
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#99Dear (Soylent) designers, please stop comparing yourselves with big names like Kubrick or Rams. You designed a plastic bottle - no more, no less.
You won't get much upvotes on HN with that... Comparing yourself to Kubrick, on the other hand, will create some reaction.
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#100Dear (Soylent) designers, please stop comparing yourselves with big names like Kubrick or Rams. You designed a plastic bottle - no more, no less.
You are very condescending. These people are trying to do something, they share the process, they try to get some inspiration from people they like. What's the big deal ?