Would love to hear your take. Also what are some factors you base your decision on when choosing a name?
Ask HN: what do you think of the name Squiry?
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#3If you are playing off '(In)quiry', FYI my first impression was pronouncing more like 'Squirrel', "SQUIR-Y" rather than "S-QUIR-Y".
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#4It's common now to try to make an english-like brand name, but there's an implicit false assumption that everyone will be able to work out a pun-like significance, but that doesn't work in countries where english is not a first language.
Of course that depends on who your target audience is going to be.
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#6It's not even that I couldn't choose between two ways to read it, but that I couldn't come up with one good way to read it.
To me that seems like bad sign.
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#7Often you can have name relate in some direct or indirect what to what the service does, or something unique about it. If you are playing off '(In)quiry', FYI my first impression was pronouncing more like 'Squirrel', "SQUIR-Y" rather than "S-QUIR-Y".