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i'll defend the name, as it passes a few of my tests (here is another list): First, the name suggests something about the product. When many people hear "offi

i'll defend the name, as it passes a few of my tests (here is another list): First, the name suggests something about the product. When many people hear "office", they think "business" and "MS Office". When i hear zilla, i think of Mozilla, and the connotations are "free" and "quality". these connotations are perfect for a free calendaring and collaboration tool. "sharecircle" wouldn't provide the same associations with business and quality. Second, the name is spellable without explanation. Third, its memorable/differentiated Fourth, you can grow into it. its not "calendarzilla" fifth, its not too long

LPTS 18y ago
Yeah. But. Um. Those tests suck? It's officezilla. The cadence is all wrong. Say it over and over again. Too much at the end. It flows like a boulder swims. Normal people, when they hear office, think "I hate the office.", and normal people, when they hear zilla, think godzilla, which is not so pleasant in it's associations. Why would I want a bigger office thats like a giant dinosaur that messes stuff up? Officezilla sounds more to me like the way a therapist would label the kafkaesque reoccurring nightmares of a middle manager who wants to quit and live by a lake and paint, but whose soul is being consumed by recurring office work that takes all his energy in the same hopeless, pointless ritual he lives over and over again, the only change day to day being the slowly and constantly mounting frustration, then an inviting place I want to go each day to try and make something creative. The way it works isn't does it pass a few tests. There is no set of rules such that meeting the rules is a necessary and sufficient condition for the name not sucking. The way it works is, consider the totality. Does it suck or not. This name sucks. Really strongly.

LPTS 18y ago

Yeah. But. Um. Those tests suck? It's officezilla. The cadence is all wrong. Say it over and over again. Too much at the end. It flows like a boulder swims. Normal people, when they hear office, think "I hate the office.", and normal people, when they hear zilla, think godzilla, which is not so pleasant in it's associations. Why would I want a bigger office thats like a giant dinosaur that messes stuff up? Officezilla sounds more to me like the way a therapist would label the kafkaesque reoccurring nightmares of a middle manager who wants to quit and live by a lake and paint, but whose soul is being consumed by recurring office work that takes all his energy in the same hopeless, pointless ritual he lives over and over again, the only change day to day being the slowly and constantly mounting frustration, then an inviting place I want to go each day to try and make something creative. The way it works isn't does it pass a few tests. There is no set of rules such that meeting the rules is a necessary and sufficient condition for the name not sucking. The way it works is, consider the totality. Does it suck or not. This name sucks. Really strongly.