How I name my apps
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How I name my apps
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Re: How I name my apps
#2And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
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#3I like to name my apps like classical pieces:
App No. 1 in Erlang
App No. 2 in Haskell
Variations on a theme by Hasbro
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#4And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
Just curious... why would you want to do that even if you're stuck? This is more of a quick brainstorm method, I don't think he's even looked to see if the domain name is available at this point.
Also, I'd rather have something like "getflint.com" or "flintapp.com" than "flnnt.com" or something. When you start getting into cutesy abstractions like that it becomes hard to remember.
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#5And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
Just curious... why would you want to do that even if you're stuck? This is more of a quick brainstorm method, I don't think he's even looked to see if the domain name is available at this point. Also, I'd rather have something like "getflint.com" or "flintapp.com" than "flnnt.com" or something. When you start getting into cutesy abstractions like that it becomes hard to remember.
Randomizing is not always bad, you may just run into a good-looking name that ticks quite well -- often no more than this is needed.
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#6And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
Just curious... why would you want to do that even if you're stuck? This is more of a quick brainstorm method, I don't think he's even looked to see if the domain name is available at this point. Also, I'd rather have something like "getflint.com" or "flintapp.com" than "flnnt.com" or something. When you start getting into cutesy abstractions like that it becomes hard to remember.
I don't know about Flint, but many words already have the getname.com and nameapp.com domains taking. You can find more luck if you add hyphens though, but that makes for a pretty ugly domain.
Even .org and .net domains (which I don't mind, and prefer to ccTLDs) are getting sparse.
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#7I like to name my apps like classical pieces: App No. 1 in Erlang App No. 2 in Haskell Variations on a theme by Hasbro
This is so awesome I may have to adopt it.
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#9It would be fun (and probably exists) a fake word generator that created words that were easy to spell and pronounce, but were basically meaningless.
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#10 $ aspell dump master |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `aspell dump master|wc -l`)))p