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My unprofessional professional opinion. The product looks great, but the name has to go. I can't imagine pronouncing that, let alone communicating it over a pho

My unprofessional professional opinion. The product looks great, but the name has to go. I can't imagine pronouncing that, let alone communicating it over a phone. Any simple word before analytics would be better. Edit: pineapplytics is the obvious cute and available one, however may still be difficult to communicate.

henrikschroder 7y ago
Fun fact: Only the English language calls the fruit "pineapple", almost every other language calls it "ananas" or similar.
- overcast 7y ago
  I looked it up, I get it, but this post and the site, are targeting English speaking.
  - ygjb 7y ago
    Now I really want the author to rename it pineapple in the English localization, and leave it Ananas every where else...
  - _frkl 7y ago
    Well, or they just want everyone to be able to access it? There is really no choice than to publish something like this in English. Just a guess, but I'd guess the amount of people ccessing it who are not native English speakers is larger than those who are.
- pmelendez 7y ago
  That's a bit bold statement... In Spanish is Piña and in Portuguese is Abacaxi, but a good amount of laguanges does call it ananas
  - caiocaiocaio 7y ago
    In Portugal Portuguese it's Ananás.
    - michaelmior 7y ago
      I think this is also true in the Spanish dialects spoken in many regions.
  - maximente 7y ago
    > In Spanish is Piña equally as bold, and also incorrect: ananá is what you'll hear in Argentina, possibly elsewhere.
    - deleted 7y ago
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- pimterry 7y ago
  The Guardian made a helpful infographic a little while back about exactly this: https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384357483102/Pineapple.png https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2...
- mikorym 7y ago
  That's not true. In my native language it is called "pynappel". EDIT: I guess that may be why you said "almost" but that, in turn, is almost impossible.
- hondadriver 7y ago
  We call pineapple juice 'ananassap' in Dutch and sometimes use it as if it would be an English word as a joke.
- techie128 7y ago
  Its called "ananas" in Marathi as well. Marathi is a regional language in India.
millboh 7y ago
Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :) The product was designed to make analytics easy. We found that the word Analytics is not easy to pronounce too. So we decided to make the word analytics easy too! But thanks for your comments, we will consider about it.
- koolba 7y ago
  I think the name and logo are nice (pineapple database right?) but agree that it's both difficult to spell and pronounce (particularly for people who refer to them as "pineapples"). If you want to be cheeky, CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') is available for a .com domain.
  - bhou 7y ago
    Love this CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') idea! ;)
dugluak 7y ago
People have same opinion about Azure. Microsoft didn't change it. Ananas is still not that bad.
- tlrobinson 7y ago
  "Ananas" alone might not be that bad, but "ananasanalytics.com" certainly is. Bob Loblaw's Law Blog, anyone?
caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I really loved the name, but there was a bit of disconnect because I thought something named pineapple would lead me to a more exciting, artsy page.
aiisjustanif 7y ago
Who said it was made by an English speaker...? Typical. Smh.
- dang 7y ago
  I appreciate the push for tolerance behind your comment, but being snide doesn't help. Please don't on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: while I have you, could you please also stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN generally? You've done that a fair bit and we're trying for something a little better than that here. In addition to the site guidelines, you might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
djmips 7y ago
your opinion is bananas

henrikschroder 7y ago

Fun fact: Only the English language calls the fruit "pineapple", almost every other language calls it "ananas" or similar.

overcast 7y ago
I looked it up, I get it, but this post and the site, are targeting English speaking.
- ygjb 7y ago
  Now I really want the author to rename it pineapple in the English localization, and leave it Ananas every where else...
- _frkl 7y ago
  Well, or they just want everyone to be able to access it? There is really no choice than to publish something like this in English. Just a guess, but I'd guess the amount of people ccessing it who are not native English speakers is larger than those who are.
pmelendez 7y ago
That's a bit bold statement... In Spanish is Piña and in Portuguese is Abacaxi, but a good amount of laguanges does call it ananas
- caiocaiocaio 7y ago
  In Portugal Portuguese it's Ananás.
  - michaelmior 7y ago
    I think this is also true in the Spanish dialects spoken in many regions.
- maximente 7y ago
  > In Spanish is Piña equally as bold, and also incorrect: ananá is what you'll hear in Argentina, possibly elsewhere.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
pimterry 7y ago
The Guardian made a helpful infographic a little while back about exactly this: https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384357483102/Pineapple.png https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2...
mikorym 7y ago
That's not true. In my native language it is called "pynappel". EDIT: I guess that may be why you said "almost" but that, in turn, is almost impossible.
hondadriver 7y ago
We call pineapple juice 'ananassap' in Dutch and sometimes use it as if it would be an English word as a joke.
techie128 7y ago
Its called "ananas" in Marathi as well. Marathi is a regional language in India.

millboh 7y ago

Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :) The product was designed to make analytics easy. We found that the word Analytics is not easy to pronounce too. So we decided to make the word analytics easy too! But thanks for your comments, we will consider about it.

koolba 7y ago
I think the name and logo are nice (pineapple database right?) but agree that it's both difficult to spell and pronounce (particularly for people who refer to them as "pineapples"). If you want to be cheeky, CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') is available for a .com domain.
- bhou 7y ago
  Love this CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') idea! ;)

dugluak 7y ago

People have same opinion about Azure. Microsoft didn't change it. Ananas is still not that bad.

tlrobinson 7y ago
"Ananas" alone might not be that bad, but "ananasanalytics.com" certainly is. Bob Loblaw's Law Blog, anyone?

caiocaiocaio 7y ago

I really loved the name, but there was a bit of disconnect because I thought something named pineapple would lead me to a more exciting, artsy page.

aiisjustanif 7y ago

Who said it was made by an English speaker...? Typical. Smh.

dang 7y ago
I appreciate the push for tolerance behind your comment, but being snide doesn't help. Please don't on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: while I have you, could you please also stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN generally? You've done that a fair bit and we're trying for something a little better than that here. In addition to the site guidelines, you might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

djmips 7y ago

your opinion is bananas