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One of your problems: The first time I heard of your product was the shut down notice. Just had to ask "what is Touca?"
by ocdtrekkie 4y ago
One of your problems: The first time I heard of your product was the shut down notice. Just had to ask "what is Touca?"
- pejman_gh 4y agoI admit it's always been a point of struggle for me as a technical solo first-time founder. We should have done a better job with messaging too. Having said that, our v2 launch last month was on the front page for about a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959276 ...but it was too little too late.
- dancemethis 4y agoToucas are plastic caps you put on your head to take baths wihtout getting hair wet. Weird choice of a name for such an interesting tool.
- pejman_gh 4y agoI think that's in Portuguese? Touca is also the name of a bird (Toucan) in Farsi. I wanted a name that is easy to type on the command-line (since that's the interface for many users), easy to pronounce, and somewhat meaningless in English. Touca was the best I could think of. :)