> Nothing could be less cool than calling a startup “cool.com” cuil.com had its 15 minutes of fame, but I see that Google acquired their patents and domain names: http://searchengineland.com/googler-killer-cuil-patent-appli... http://whois.domaintools.com/cuil.com http://whois.domaintools.com/cuil.net
and meanwhile, something seemingly "uncuil" like DuckDuckGo is still around and is being included as an optional search engine in most modern browsers. One really can't predict what makes the cut in the end based on name alone...
I recently spent some time (probably more than I should have) at naming my new project.
I went through a couple of namegenerators and I found bustaname.com to be the best of the lot - specially it's realtime domain availability check (.com/.org/.net)
Pair it with namechk.com to check availability of social media handles.
Reddit was "seemingly taken over by teenage boys" ... was there a time it wasn't. Love that. Love reddit. Also, dotomator can be useful for generating ideas. http://www.dotomator.com/
Around late 2005-2006 it wasn't so bad, it was more 20-something guys in tech. A significant enough portion of the articles on the front page were related to programming or tech-real topics (esp. startups), or long-read articles, and while there was bickering, there were also interesting discussions in comments that didn't get dragged down by trolls and teenage-boyness. By 2007 the kids ranting about politics and atheism, the image links that were just a picture of a slogan, the trolling, the lame joke accounts, and the rest were picking up steam, and Startup News was created as a less awful alternative by pg (and also as an Arc demo), which was eventually renamed Hacker News. There was an early reddit exodus to HN to get away from reddit's worst excesses in 2007-8, especially when the horrible Digg exodus to reddit was happening.
Reddit was "seemingly taken over by teenage boys" ... was there a time it wasn't. Love that. Love reddit. Also, dotomator can be useful for generating ideas. http://www.dotomator.com/
Around late 2005-2006 it wasn't so bad, it was more 20-something guys in tech. A significant enough portion of the articles on the front page were related to programming or tech-real topics (esp. startups), or long-read articles, and while there was bickering, there were also interesting discussions in comments that didn't get dragged down by trolls and teenage-boyness. By 2007 the kids ranting about politics and ath…
But you can't really generalize about Reddit nowadays, as it's a collection of tens of thousands of subreddits. There are still plenty that are fine.
I was talking to my parents about my latest side project, Anorak (http://anorakci.com) and they both laughed at the name.
I genuinely felt embarrassed when I explained to them that the majority of startups etc have "silly" names. As I was talking about Anorak to them, every time I said it's name, I felt silly.
And yet, it's never bothered me before.
I'm not changing the name, but it made me realise.
All you need to produce a 'good' name is a simple script, a list of adjectives and a list of critters. A few sample runs from my proprietary name generator produces these CamelCased (KamlKzed?) marvels of ingenuity: FragrantDuck CourteousOwl RecklessPig OtherMoose CaringFrog MindlessFish UpbeatLizard WhisperedHippo SlushyWhale OilyAccountant CompassionateHog InstructiveMonkey ForkedCow ... Of course I did not work on…
My startup name generator[1] does something very similar. Instead of adjectives and critters it uses tech and culinary terms. Here's the first 5 it came up with: SteamWare MountFont CaviarBeta ChipBinary SystemCocoa [1] http://montanaflynn.me/lab/startup-name-generator/
I got FragmentSalad, a great name. Haven't thought of a company to go with it yet, but that shouldn't hold me back...
My startup name generator[1] does something very similar. Instead of adjectives and critters it uses tech and culinary terms. Here's the first 5 it came up with: SteamWare MountFont CaviarBeta ChipBinary SystemCocoa [1] http://montanaflynn.me/lab/startup-name-generator/
I got FragmentSalad, a great name. Haven't thought of a company to go with it yet, but that shouldn't hold me back...
A tool to save, search, share and make best use of code snippets/fragments.
Around late 2005-2006 it wasn't so bad, it was more 20-something guys in tech. A significant enough portion of the articles on the front page were related to programming or tech-real topics (esp. startups), or long-read articles, and while there was bickering, there were also interesting discussions in comments that didn't get dragged down by trolls and teenage-boyness. By 2007 the kids ranting about politics and ath…
But you can't really generalize about Reddit nowadays, as it's a collection of tens of thousands of subreddits. There are still plenty that are fine.
Probably true, I mostly stopped paying attention around 2010, so when I occasionally hit it now my subreddits are not highly curated to stay ahead of the horde.