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Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

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Re: Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

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post #16

Why is the primary sales call to action is that it's serverless if it's a hosted solution? Who cares.

Because at the early stages it’s really important to talk to customers.

This also helps find users for whom this is a huge pain point - metrics costs are so high that they’d love to talk to someone and complain about the problem.

Re: Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

#22
Why did you name your startup the same name as the most popular network compression library for video games? This seems short sighted. Even if you don't run afoul of trademark/copyright, you're sharing a lot of SEO and marketing terminology.

Re: Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

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post #21
post #16

Why is the primary sales call to action is that it's serverless if it's a hosted solution? Who cares.

Because at the early stages it’s really important to talk to customers. This also helps find users for whom this is a huge pain point - metrics costs are so high that they’d love to talk to someone and complain about the problem.

“fully-managed, cheap metrics, ideal for serverless applications”

Re: Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

#29

I don't know how trademark works or anything like that not a lawyer etc etc but lots of stuff are called oodle. I wish you luck.

Thanks for the heads up. we did check on IP/trademarks just to be sure to avoid violations.

Oodle is a registered trademark:

https://uspto.report/TM/88478792

RAD is now owned by Epic Games (acquired in 2021) so they have very deep pockets.

A lot of people, including myself, were clearly initially confused that there must be some association given you are using this name in a not-entirely-unrelated field.

IANAL but I hope you're real sure that you are legally in the clear before you commit too deeply to the name.

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