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"Dude, you should checkout Rysolv, its a cool service!". "What's it called again, doesn't show up on Google." "It's spelled Rysolv". "WHAT!??" "R Y S O L V"
by systemvoltage 6y ago
"Dude, you should checkout Rysolv, its a cool service!".
"What's it called again, doesn't show up on Google."
"It's spelled Rysolv".
"WHAT!??"
"R Y S O L V".
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Sorry, but I have always found names of this sorts bad for all kinds of ways. IMO the way you say it and the way you spell it should be relatively obvious. Ofcourse there are exceptions like Lift..ggrr..Lyft. To be fair, its quite difficult to satisfy all aspects of a company name. You can't Kodak like the old days!
- m463 6y agoOn the other hand searching for xkcd is very easy, searching for resolve (or even resolv) would take more searching skills. EDIT: actually, searching for rysolv -> resolve :)
- systemvoltage 6y agoTrue! I would guess that was the original motivation from the author - to make it unique, short and be able to purchase a .com domain name.
- Addono 6y agoRan into the same issue when naming our startup ClaimR, searching for the name on Google would indeed give a suggestion "Did you mean 'claim'" and completely tank our SEO. Although ~9 months after launching the site it stopped giving this hint. Not completely sure what changed it, although in the meantime we added the domain to the Google Search Console and incorporated.
- canofbars 6y agoI didn't even realize it was a play on resolve. I was reading it as rye-solve
- bartvk 6y agoEven if you think it's important, it's not equally important for all names. In this case I dare say that this project is going to be typed about more, rather than talked about.
- onion2k 6y agoAd prices for "resolve" targeting developers are pretty cheap, so getting to the top of the results page will be simple. This is how SEO works now.
- adgezaza 6y agoMaybe call or, "Openly Pay"?
- neilsense 6y agoThe conversation would happen over iMessage or Twitter DM and the first message would come with a link.
- StavrosK 6y ago> You can't Kodak like the old days! What do you mean "you can't codec"?
- corty 6y agoLearn German, we have more vowels!
- mbg721 6y agoIt doesn't show up on Googol?
- themanmaran 6y agoPreaching to the choir lol. I've always hated tech companies with misspelled names. Lyft, KoFi, Flickr, etc. But the .com domain was $9.00! And that was enough for me. Also your comment is now the #3 result when I google "rysolv". Congratulations!