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Pet peeve: Software companies that name their product after the noun that their project is a giant database of. "People" is the stupidest example I've seen ye

• Kiro 8y ago
  That's not even the name of the product. People was the hackathon project name. Regardless it's a pretty strange pet peeve. I really don't see the problem.
  • aeorgnoieang 8y ago
    Those kind of names are generally much harder to search for for one.
    • madeofpalk 8y ago
      They’re private, internal projects. Regardless of the name, you’re not going to find much useful on Google.
      • lucb1e 8y ago
        Currently, yes. Elsewhere in this thread the author mentioned they do think of making it open source from time to time. And looking beyond the current example, there are multiple things called home known by millions of people (the English word and the Google product, and I'm sure there must be more).
        • madeofpalk 8y ago
          When you want to find a Google Home online, do you have trouble doing so due to the apparently ambiguous name?
          • lucb1e 8y ago
            I like to be able to refer to products by their name, rather than have to name the parent company in order to make clear what I mean.
            • Kiro 8y ago
              But the name of the product includes the parent company name. It's called Google Home, not Home.
  • lucb1e 8y ago
    It was my first thought as well, Home is both an extremely generic word and is the name of an existing product by at least one huge vendor. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a pet peeve, but naming things definitely appears to be a challenge.