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It's smart to have an irrelevant one-word noun name, it gives you the flexibility to pivot your product over time, without being tied to an overly-specific name
by saeranv 6y ago
It's smart to have an irrelevant one-word noun name, it gives you the flexibility to pivot your product over time, without being tied to an overly-specific name.
- EpicEng 6y ago"It allows you to fail multiple times without changing the product name" Great.
- andrewflnr 6y agoI'm not sure what you think you're saying, but rephrasing the benefit to include the word "fail" does not make it less beneficial.
- EpicEng 6y agoI'm saying that choosing a nonsense name for your product with the thought that, should you have to "pivot" (aka failing), you'll be able to keep the name, is brain dead. Besides, this is a programming language; what exactly are you going to "pivot" to?
- lambda_obrien 6y agoHow do you think progress is made if not by failing and trying again? and again, and again.... etc. Of course, you're the "epic" engineer, so I bet you're really good at everything and never fail, right?
- dang 6y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack in Hacker News comments. We're trying for a different sort of conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lambda_obrien 6y agoYes my point would have been better taken without that, sorry, his comment rubbed me the wrong way.