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You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely not
by WAHa_06x36 7y ago
You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely nothing whatsoever in terms of becoming popular.
Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.
- olah_1 7y ago>Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them. Like what? I can't think of any bad ones that people use on a regular basis.
- WAHa_06x36 7y agoGoogle, Facebook, Twitter... You are USED to them, so they don't sound stupid. If you heard them for the first time, they'd sound utterly stupid.
- olah_1 7y agoFacebook sounds like what it is. Twitter has been discussed in this thread elsewhere (bird imagery makes sense). Google is essentially a nonsense word that turns out to be a real word based on a really big number (which makes sense). Someone recommended finding evidence of people complaining about names back when these services first came out. I don't recall ever thinking any of these names were stupid, despite other issues I had with the services.