Dang, this is perfect, but none of your box sizes fit what I'm shipping. Any plans to add more size options?
planning to launch a new style each week. perhaps I should add a voting option for the next style to add to the site
Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
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Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#12When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex?
People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble".
Large numbers of people, I suspect.
Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#13When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex? People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble". Large numbers of people, I suspect. Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
Paki, an ethnic slur? I would've thought it was short for Pakistani.
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#14When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex? People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble". Large numbers of people, I suspect. Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
Paki, an ethnic slur? I would've thought it was short for Pakistani.
Maybe this will help you:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paki
Starting with the very first sentence under "Usage notes".
In summary, a strict prefix of some place name or nationality is not automatically a harmless contraction. For instance, "Jap" is not a word which has exactly the same nuance as "person of Japanese descent".
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#15When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex? People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble". Large numbers of people, I suspect. Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
it hasn't been a problem. thanks for your concern though.
in case you're curious:
The name we selected was "Packable" = packaging + enable/capable/etc.
But the domain was already taken. We searched for alterations of that until we landed on pakible.com being available.
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#16When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex? People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble". Large numbers of people, I suspect. Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
it hasn't been a problem. thanks for your concern though. in case you're curious: The name we selected was "Packable" = packaging + enable/capable/etc. But the domain was already taken. We searched for alterations of that until we landed on pakible.com being available.
I'm skeptical; I mean, when you start a venture, you hope that it takes off. Will it still not be a problem if you gain 10, 30, 50 times the attention that you have now?
Good luck, though! Whatever bumps you hit, you will sort out along the way.
One good thing is that the name's phonology doesn't have the issue; just the spelling. Phonetically, it's just "packable".
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#17A few observations: - from your configurator, it's not 100% clear where each bit of info from the Text form goes on the box and if they're optional or not - the sample boxes on your site appear to show a mark only logo, no text (judging from its side placement on LaunchBox and Mini boxes). in this particular case, it makes sense that a Brand/Company/Product name at the very least would have to be additionally printed…
1) We handle this offline with the customer. The prototype 3D/2D editors we're developing right now should make it a lot easier in the future.
2) ai, eps, svg, png, jpg, pdf... anything really. But preferably vector graphics (will give best print resolution)
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#18When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex? People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble". Large numbers of people, I suspect. Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
Paki, an ethnic slur? I would've thought it was short for Pakistani.
Neal Stephenson writes about this in one of his books -- not sure which. A character wonders why "Brit" or "Ausie" are acceptable, while "Jap" or "Paki" are not.
He doesn't mention the use of the word Paki by neo-nazi far-right racists.
Edit: in the UK it's almost always a slur. I can see how in other places it's just an abbreviation.
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#19A few observations: - from your configurator, it's not 100% clear where each bit of info from the Text form goes on the box and if they're optional or not - the sample boxes on your site appear to show a mark only logo, no text (judging from its side placement on LaunchBox and Mini boxes). in this particular case, it makes sense that a Brand/Company/Product name at the very least would have to be additionally printed…
1) We handle this offline with the customer. The prototype 3D/2D editors we're developing right now should make it a lot easier in the future. 2) ai, eps, svg, png, jpg, pdf... anything really. But preferably vector graphics (will give best print resolution)
Awesome service and dead simple to use. I got 10 boxes made in no time at all. :-)
Re: Pakible (YC W15) Makes It Dead Simple for Businesses to Design, Ship Packaging
#20Dang, this is perfect, but none of your box sizes fit what I'm shipping. Any plans to add more size options?
+1. I need to be able to ship 20x20" matted prints (so, big but relatively flat), and finding a safe and easy means to ship these prints sucks. Incidentally, I'd love to be able to ship a bunch of product off to Level and have them frame and drop-ship my prints (hint, hint!)
Additionally, we did product packaging for Level, custom.
For now, if you need 1,000+ units we can do custom!