“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (2006)
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“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (2006)
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#2Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180593
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#3What about Washington Redskins?
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#4"Nominology is my neologism for the study of naming things!"
It's called onomastics, son. Now get off my lawn.
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#5I looked up YouOS, what a blast from an (idealistic) past:
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#6Interesting that he scores "Yahoo" poorly on Googlability. I'm not sure if that's a joke, but "Yahoo" is certainly very Googlable.
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#7Completely agree. There will always be good names available. Curious if PG would still rate textpayme high as I think its an awful name!
Selfishly curious, how would you rate my company's name, Modea?
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#8Interesting that he scores "Yahoo" poorly on Googlability. I'm not sure if that's a joke, but "Yahoo" is certainly very Googlable.
Yahoo was around and well established before google even showed up. If Yahoo was a new startup today then it could struggle.
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#9What about Washington Redskins?
no south park fans here i guess
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#10I looked up YouOS, what a blast from an (idealistic) past: http://www.youos.com/html/static/manifesto.html
Sounds like a Chromebook.