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I can't find an original name
Why is it so difficult to find an original good-sounding name for a project?
A name that can be read and sound great in lots of languages, even if it means that there will be multiple pronunciacions.
After giving it some thought I wanted to do something a bit different. I'm settling on a 4 characters name: 2 letters and 2 figures. Do you think it might be original enough or are there already countless famous brand that have that same formula?
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- mdaniel 4y agoWhen these branding discussions come up, I am reminded that "Debian" is "Deb" and "Ian", to say nothing of nonsense words "Nike", "Netflix", "Walmart"; branding is entirely about the amount of traffic and goodwill you drive into whatever word you pick. I had good luck picking my custom domain name using `grep -Eo '^.{3,5}$' /usr/share/dict/words` and now with damn near infinite TLDs you're bound to find availability As for the "lots of languages," I can't help you there
- jmillikin 4y ago> nonsense words "Nike" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)
- jmillikin 4y agoWhy not name your project after what it does? Not everything needs to be a brand.
- AlDante2 4y agoABBA is a well known four letter brand. You could tap into the fan base with A33A. C3PO is another famous example. C33O (note O not 0) taps into a worldline of history. 63PO also. Be careful with patterns such as I95W - you may run into traffic problems. IANL (another four letter combo) but you may have problems copywriting a sequence of two letters and two digits. See Intel 486. So how about trying Wombat Yancowicz?