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"Forestry". Really? I can understand many other hot startups using names of random objects, but using the name of an entire completely different profession?

hrbrtglm 10y ago
You mean like Apple taking the name of a primeur business ?
lmitchell 10y ago
As someone whose parents are both foresters, this actually confused me pretty hard. I'm disappointed this wasn't a forestry-oriented startup :P
- LogicX 10y ago
  For those seeking a forestry related startup, checkout http://TREELY.co http://TREELY.co
adiabatty 10y ago
Makes as much sense as a book-and-music seller named after a river in Brazil. We do just fine with weird things like this if they're ingrained enough.
sgallant 10y ago
Hahaha. Co-creator here. I know, it's silly. Here's how we came up with it: My partner and I used to drive 2 hours to meet our team every Monday at our old startup. We conceived of the idea on one of these drives and the conversation went like this: Jordan - "So what are we going to call this thing?" Scott - "I don't know, some cool .io name?" We passed an RV that had a "Caravan" logo on it Scott - "Like caravan.io" Jordan - "That's stupid" We passed another RV that had a "Forestry" logo on it Scott - "Or forestry.io" Jordan - "That's stupid too" I did a search that night, caravan.io was taken but forestry.io was available :)
- sorenjan 10y ago
  Jordan was right.
  - dng88 10y ago
    Agreed. Still not sure what it does.
  - unixhero 10y ago
    Nah. It's cool. Their cms spawns a forest of small websites. That's some fine Forestry imo.
Cerium 10y ago
I was excited at the prospect of an API service offering up to date forestry data.
- sakopov 10y ago
  Ditto. That's the only reason i clicked on the link.
- LogicX 10y ago
  Checkout my friends' startup http://TREELY.co http://TREELY.co
BinaryIdiot 10y ago
Yeah I'll admit it took me way too long to try and figure out what this website had to do with foresting before I realized it was absolutely zero. I scrolled, read and clicked around way to make to try and make sure I wasn't missing something.
- davnn 10y ago
  After you read the first three words of the main headline "a simple CMS", the chances that the site has anything to do with foresting are marginally small and thus not worth exploring.
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    Yeah I just initially assumed it was some sort of CMS with the niche of supporting foresting operations or something. Not just a CMS.
antod 10y ago
Something something about growing and monetising (b)logs? Nah, I got nothing.

hrbrtglm 10y ago

You mean like Apple taking the name of a primeur business ?

lmitchell 10y ago

As someone whose parents are both foresters, this actually confused me pretty hard. I'm disappointed this wasn't a forestry-oriented startup :P

LogicX 10y ago
For those seeking a forestry related startup, checkout http://TREELY.co http://TREELY.co

adiabatty 10y ago

Makes as much sense as a book-and-music seller named after a river in Brazil. We do just fine with weird things like this if they're ingrained enough.

sgallant 10y ago

Hahaha. Co-creator here. I know, it's silly. Here's how we came up with it: My partner and I used to drive 2 hours to meet our team every Monday at our old startup. We conceived of the idea on one of these drives and the conversation went like this: Jordan - "So what are we going to call this thing?" Scott - "I don't know, some cool .io name?" We passed an RV that had a "Caravan" logo on it Scott - "Like caravan.io" Jordan - "That's stupid" We passed another RV that had a "Forestry" logo on it Scott - "Or forestry.io" Jordan - "That's stupid too" I did a search that night, caravan.io was taken but forestry.io was available :)

sorenjan 10y ago
Jordan was right.
- dng88 10y ago
  Agreed. Still not sure what it does.
- unixhero 10y ago
  Nah. It's cool. Their cms spawns a forest of small websites. That's some fine Forestry imo.

Cerium 10y ago

I was excited at the prospect of an API service offering up to date forestry data.

sakopov 10y ago
Ditto. That's the only reason i clicked on the link.
LogicX 10y ago
Checkout my friends' startup http://TREELY.co http://TREELY.co

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

Yeah I'll admit it took me way too long to try and figure out what this website had to do with foresting before I realized it was absolutely zero. I scrolled, read and clicked around way to make to try and make sure I wasn't missing something.

davnn 10y ago
After you read the first three words of the main headline "a simple CMS", the chances that the site has anything to do with foresting are marginally small and thus not worth exploring.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  Yeah I just initially assumed it was some sort of CMS with the niche of supporting foresting operations or something. Not just a CMS.

antod 10y ago

Something something about growing and monetising (b)logs? Nah, I got nothing.