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How did you come up with that name? I agree with danielha. It took me a while to figure out what the name came from. It's been a long time since I typed capacit
by whacked_new 20y ago
How did you come up with that name? I agree with danielha. It took me a while to figure out what the name came from. It's been a long time since I typed capacitor (this is the suffix right?) and now it takes me more than half a second to type.
What about the more web2.0 style names? untaken: bootstrappd, bootstrapping, bwootstrap... to name a few
- nostrademons 20y agoIt's from bootstrap + capacitor, as you figured out. We were looking for something that connotes "keeping your energy levels up". I threw out a bunch of physics-related terms, but if you saw particleinabox.com or blackbodyradiation.com you'd think physics and not startups. A lot of our potential names had that problem: there was nothing in them that really suggested "startup". Then there were names that had the opposite problem: they didn't suggest anything but startups, and the added suffix was just completely random. Startupduck.com fits in this category. So would bootstrappd, bootstrapping, bwootstrap, etc, IMHO. My cofounder also suggested startup-orphans.com, which I nixed as too negative, since negativity was what everyone jumped on RejectedByYC.com for. My cofounder also proposed dotcamaraderie.com, which I liked, but we didn't think anyone would be able to spell "camaraderie". We also considered shortening it to "dotcomrade.com", but it sounded too communist for me.