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How I name my apps
- GMali 15y agoAnd if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
- tbgvi 15y agoJust curious... why would you want to do that even if you're stuck? This is more of a quick brainstorm method, I don't think he's even looked to see if the domain name is available at this point. Also, I'd rather have something like "getflint.com" or "flintapp.com" than "flnnt.com" or something. When you start getting into cutesy abstractions like that it becomes hard to remember.
- pestaa 15y agoRandomizing is not always bad, you may just run into a good-looking name that ticks quite well -- often no more than this is needed.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI don't know about Flint, but many words already have the getname.com and nameapp.com domains taking. You can find more luck if you add hyphens though, but that makes for a pretty ugly domain. Even .org and .net domains (which I don't mind, and prefer to ccTLDs) are getting sparse.
- jarek 15y agoWhoosh.
- tbgvi 15y agoTouché. I wasn't sure if this was a joke or not though. The fact that people actually do this when naming something made it pretty hard to figure out if he was serious.
- heyimfromreddit 15y agohttp://getflint.com/ http://getflint.com/ http://flintapp.com/ http://flintapp.com/ http://flnnt.com/ http://flnnt.com/
- chops 15y agoI like to name my apps like classical pieces: App No. 1 in Erlang App No. 2 in Haskell Variations on a theme by Hasbro
- run4yourlives 15y agoThis is so awesome I may have to adopt it.
- henry501 15y agoKnew a guy in college who named every physics assignment. "A brief treatise in radioactive decay, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the α particle."
- mildweed 15y agoIn college I had a habit of making sure every app had either the word 'Extreme' or 'Ultimate' in the title. Thankfully I have outgrown this.
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- thisisnotme 15y agoIt would be fun (and probably exists) a fake word generator that created words that were easy to spell and pronounce, but were basically meaningless.
- zachwaugh 15y agoThis is pretty much exactly what Wordoid does with the bonus of telling you if the domain is available - http://wordoid.com/ http://wordoid.com/.
- vikrum 15y ago$ aspell dump master |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `aspell dump master|wc -l`)))p
- jannes 15y agoIs aspell a spellchecker? And does this command randomly select one word from its dictionary? (Note: I'm mostly a Windows user nowadays and I have never personally used aspell, sed, or wc) What does the p at the end of the line do? Is that a mistake or is it there on purpose?
- loumf 15y agoThe p prints the randomly chosen line -- wc -l is the number of lines in the file, (random % lines-in-file) picks a random one, 'sed -n 30p' prints the 30th line.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoAny advantage/disadvantage to replacing aspell dump master with cat /usr/share/dict/words ?
- felideon 15y agoToo bad zsh caches var expansion. :)
- Dobbs 15y agosh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `cat /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l`)))p' I don't have aspell installed so 'cat /usr/share/dict/words' in place.
- braco_alva 15y agoThis is actually a good way to go or at least kind of fun for killing some time.
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- mjs00 15y agoDo remember to check uspto.gov > trademarks > (2) Search Marks to ensure something cool you've picked isn't an active/current registered trademark by another for computer / software / online use.
- dominicyen 15y agoWe used a similar method to get to our name: Bindle. I agree with you on a short, single word names. To add to that, I would suggest attempting to use real words, that have simple spelling. A short naming blogpost can be found here: http://blog.bindle.me/post/9048657705/name http://blog.bindle.me/post/9048657705/name
- mildweed 15y agoI'm working to rename my comedy troupe in a similar fashion. My spidergrams (what I call this type of brainstorming) are very similar.
- rizumu 15y agoI learned of this technique as clustering in a creative writing course: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/cluster.html http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/cluster.html And this was the textbook: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Natural-Gabriele-Lusser-Rico/dp/0874771862/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0 http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Natural-Gabriele-Lusser-Rico/d...
- richcollins 15y agohttp://www.visualthesaurus.com/ http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ is useful for doing this
- rmc 15y agoI have never liked this naming scheme because it makes names that are existing words. This makes it hard to Google.
- ams6110 15y agoJust tack on "ly". In this case he would name the app "Flintly"
- jason_tko 15y agoYou missed a winner with "Spork".
- MostAwesomeDude 15y agoI just go with food. Burger, Salsa, Arrabiata, etc.
- cellis 15y agoI like to use http://impossibility.org http://impossibility.org for naming apps. It ensures you can get an available domain that won't be too hard to type/say.
- andrewbaron 15y agoI always like to hit up "Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names": http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html I'll find words I like and fit them together myself, like Rocketboom, or Humanwire, e.g.
- 6ren 15y agoI just number them. e.g. "4 thousand billion". Little Billy Sands we call him. But seriously, I have given them descriptive names - inspired by the supplier of meat to MacDonalds in Australia called "The 100% Australian Beef Company". I figured it was good for googling, and informative. Also reminded me of Humpty Dumpty (my name means the shape I am). And it worked. Though I note most people go for clever and/or zany names, with creative spellings (so they be trademarked). An amusing "story" to explain a clever name can operate as a vector for word of mouth: by passing on the story for entertainment value, you also pass on the name. It's kind of like product placement, where the story is the movie. An example is GNU. It can also operate as an in-joke, creating an artificial elite.
- thetable 15y agoI find this technique works too. Come up with general ideas that describe your product, expand into metaphors. Try synonyms for the metaphors. Combine words. In the end, the name doesn't have to be descriptive, but it does have to be unique and pronouncable.