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I can assure you I didn't have Feynman in the name of my company to score some extra upvotes on HN. Not that that would even help btw. If you browse through my

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  > I can assure you I didn't have Feynman in the name of my company to score some extra upvotes on HN Ok so why do you have 'Feynman' in your company name then? And I didn't say it was for getting upvotes either. I implied (or meant to imply) that it was as a way to get attention by inventing some kind of fake association. The fact that it didn't do anything before does not mean it has no value (as a test). > yet here you are falling victim to retrofitting Explain what you mean by 'retrofitting' in this context I don't understand that meaning here. You are familiar with the use of celebrities who associate with products. The idea is that someone is more likely to pay attention and consider if they think a celebrity is involved or associated than a random person. Does not mean it will always work or that you can succeed without it. It means in many situations it will get you more than w/o it as always 'it all depends'. Paul Newman's salad dressing came out in 1982. By Paul having his name on it he got instant recognition in the press and in supermarkets. Doesn't mean people would buy it if it wasn't good but more likely to take a chance as a result of that name a shopper would stop and say 'hmm what's this'.