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These company names are getting lazier by the year. Just call the company “Cool, Man” while you’re at it. Not sure how competing with firms with the exact same

These company names are getting lazier by the year. Just call the company “Cool, Man” while you’re at it. Not sure how competing with firms with the exact same business model on Clutch requires VC funding, but OK. Best of luck.

romasevastyanov 5y ago
Hey, thank you for noticing our name! We were initially named Pizdata which literally means "fucking amazing" in Ukrainian (where we are originally from). We got a lot of local hype, word of mouth clients and even became an internet meme in Romania (where it has a very different meaning). Decided to change a name because of international clients not getting the joke (right after we tested early hypothesis). Awesomic has the same meaning – "awesome on a cosmic level", by Urban Dictionary. Here's a blog post where I described effect of such an aggressive naming – http://awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k http://awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k
romasevastyanov 5y ago
> Not sure how competing with firms with the exact same business model on Clutch requires VC funding, but OK. Best of luck. We are not competing with agencies from Clutch, that's our second target audience after startups. We help agencies scale faster while working with designers on the platform. Awesomic is not an agency, it's a super simple tool where you can start working with a designer on the same day. And then constantly receive everyday updates on your design task. Why do we need VC? Because we have 0 design managers and have no plans to hire ones. Instead, everything is managed by our product – platform. Most of the tasks are matched automatically by an algorithm. And for the designer – Awesomic is a better solution versus platforms like Upwork or Fiverr. Designers don't like to hunt for the next freelance project, feel insecure to negotiate, but they are passionate about design. So Awesomic gives them what they want while caring about everything else.
- andrewmcwatters 5y ago
  I understand that, but I’m the guy you’re selling to, and I don’t see any difference. I need quality resources, and you can’t avoid the fact that you’re sourcing labor at the end of the day. You’re effectively an agency to me. I pay you for labor. Whether I pay for labor on Upwork or your platform or an outsourcing agency makes absolutely no difference to me. I look at all of them as resource funnels. And frankly, I don’t want to work with kids who call their company fucking awesome. Are you going to take my business needs seriously? Imagine if Bloomberg called his company Jack-Off Capital. Or if Walmart called their business Cheap Bastards. Is labor arbitrage fucking awesome? You bet. For the owners. You should call your company fuck the little guy. At least in western culture we don’t intentionally bring undue attention to the fact that we’re offshoring labor beyond a business transaction.
  - dang 5y ago
    Hey, please don't break the site guidelines. You can make your substantive points without crossing into this sort of attack. The nationalistic swipe at the end is particularly not cool. We've had to ask you this sort of thing more than once before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward, we'd appreciate it.
    - andrewmcwatters 5y ago
      I understand you’re particularly sensitive as an administrator to nationalistic comments, but I would appreciate it if you didn’t categorize my matter-of-fact statement as some sort of nationalistic sentiment.
      - dang 5y ago
        That wasn't a matter-of-fact statement—it was an us-vs.them swipe drawing a line ("western culture") which itself is already provocative in this context. Also, please don't ignore the other ways in which you broke the site guidelines with your post.

romasevastyanov 5y ago

Hey, thank you for noticing our name! We were initially named Pizdata which literally means "fucking amazing" in Ukrainian (where we are originally from). We got a lot of local hype, word of mouth clients and even became an internet meme in Romania (where it has a very different meaning). Decided to change a name because of international clients not getting the joke (right after we tested early hypothesis). Awesomic has the same meaning – "awesome on a cosmic level", by Urban Dictionary. Here's a blog post where I described effect of such an aggressive naming – http://awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k http://awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k

romasevastyanov 5y ago

> Not sure how competing with firms with the exact same business model on Clutch requires VC funding, but OK. Best of luck. We are not competing with agencies from Clutch, that's our second target audience after startups. We help agencies scale faster while working with designers on the platform. Awesomic is not an agency, it's a super simple tool where you can start working with a designer on the same day. And then constantly receive everyday updates on your design task. Why do we need VC? Because we have 0 design managers and have no plans to hire ones. Instead, everything is managed by our product – platform. Most of the tasks are matched automatically by an algorithm. And for the designer – Awesomic is a better solution versus platforms like Upwork or Fiverr. Designers don't like to hunt for the next freelance project, feel insecure to negotiate, but they are passionate about design. So Awesomic gives them what they want while caring about everything else.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago
I understand that, but I’m the guy you’re selling to, and I don’t see any difference. I need quality resources, and you can’t avoid the fact that you’re sourcing labor at the end of the day. You’re effectively an agency to me. I pay you for labor. Whether I pay for labor on Upwork or your platform or an outsourcing agency makes absolutely no difference to me. I look at all of them as resource funnels. And frankly, I don’t want to work with kids who call their company fucking awesome. Are you going to take my business needs seriously? Imagine if Bloomberg called his company Jack-Off Capital. Or if Walmart called their business Cheap Bastards. Is labor arbitrage fucking awesome? You bet. For the owners. You should call your company fuck the little guy. At least in western culture we don’t intentionally bring undue attention to the fact that we’re offshoring labor beyond a business transaction.
- dang 5y ago
  Hey, please don't break the site guidelines. You can make your substantive points without crossing into this sort of attack. The nationalistic swipe at the end is particularly not cool. We've had to ask you this sort of thing more than once before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward, we'd appreciate it.
  - andrewmcwatters 5y ago
    I understand you’re particularly sensitive as an administrator to nationalistic comments, but I would appreciate it if you didn’t categorize my matter-of-fact statement as some sort of nationalistic sentiment.
    - dang 5y ago
      That wasn't a matter-of-fact statement—it was an us-vs.them swipe drawing a line ("western culture") which itself is already provocative in this context. Also, please don't ignore the other ways in which you broke the site guidelines with your post.