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Was doing a bit of searching to get context on this story and found an unrelated but interesting tangent... there's another unrelated startup named pear.ai that

by lukev 2y ago

Was doing a bit of searching to get context on this story and found an unrelated but interesting tangent... there's another unrelated startup named pear.ai that's been around for years. It's in a different domain, but the name is basically identical. Are people just... not doing any due diligence around company names any more? At all?

yunohn 2y ago
I see similar name overlap criticism by people in every other HN thread. Are you of the opinion that once somebody names their company something, that name is forever unusable for a similar or different company ever again? I’ve seen both kinds of examples being criticized, even for acronyms! Mind boggling.
DonHopkins 2y ago
Pear is an anagram for Rape! I didn't even have to use the Internet Anagram Server to perform that minimal amount of due diligence. https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=pear&t=500&a=n https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=pear&t...
raincole 2y ago
This drama kinda happened on a platform called "X" so...
pclmulqdq 2y ago
They are not. It's currently hip to use a single word from the dictionary as your company name, no matter how many others are using it.
masswerk 2y ago
> Are people just... not doing any due diligence around company names any more? At all? Well, there was a famous tweet/post/("X"?), answering to the claims of illegal relicensing, reading, "dawg i chatgpt'd the license (…) we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal" – I guess, the answer may be indeed "no"…
- blitzar 2y ago
  X (formerly known as Twitter) Post.
- cschmittiey 2y ago
  i’ve been using “Xeet”
  - masswerk 2y ago
    A "message at no-not-the-famously-complex-RPG-with-the-aliens"is always worth considering and probably on topic. ;-)
throwup238 2y ago
Companies aren’t even doing due diligence on their own internal naming schemes. Hello Google Chat number twelve.
n2d4 2y ago
If no two companies could share a name, we'd have run out of names by now. (Case in point: I'm building a company called Stack.)
- lukev 2y ago
  This is only true if you are very uncreative about names.
thih9 2y ago
It’s a trend. There was a wave of companies with unique and easily pronounceable names, then it was popular to drop a letter and add a “ly” suffix, later a phase of my/get/lets prefix. Etc. It’s shaped by how we build and use digital products. E.g. domain names were once super relevant, today less so. Perhaps in this case they don’t care; they’ll either survive and become the dominant pear, or they’ll get eaten.

by lukev 2y ago

yunohn 2y ago

I see similar name overlap criticism by people in every other HN thread. Are you of the opinion that once somebody names their company something, that name is forever unusable for a similar or different company ever again? I’ve seen both kinds of examples being criticized, even for acronyms! Mind boggling.

DonHopkins 2y ago

Pear is an anagram for Rape! I didn't even have to use the Internet Anagram Server to perform that minimal amount of due diligence. https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=pear&t=500&a=n https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=pear&t...

raincole 2y ago

This drama kinda happened on a platform called "X" so...

pclmulqdq 2y ago

They are not. It's currently hip to use a single word from the dictionary as your company name, no matter how many others are using it.

masswerk 2y ago

> Are people just... not doing any due diligence around company names any more? At all? Well, there was a famous tweet/post/("X"?), answering to the claims of illegal relicensing, reading, "dawg i chatgpt'd the license (…) we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal" – I guess, the answer may be indeed "no"…

blitzar 2y ago
X (formerly known as Twitter) Post.
cschmittiey 2y ago
i’ve been using “Xeet”
- masswerk 2y ago
  A "message at no-not-the-famously-complex-RPG-with-the-aliens"is always worth considering and probably on topic. ;-)

throwup238 2y ago

Companies aren’t even doing due diligence on their own internal naming schemes. Hello Google Chat number twelve.

n2d4 2y ago

If no two companies could share a name, we'd have run out of names by now. (Case in point: I'm building a company called Stack.)

lukev 2y ago
This is only true if you are very uncreative about names.

thih9 2y ago

It’s a trend. There was a wave of companies with unique and easily pronounceable names, then it was popular to drop a letter and add a “ly” suffix, later a phase of my/get/lets prefix. Etc. It’s shaped by how we build and use digital products. E.g. domain names were once super relevant, today less so. Perhaps in this case they don’t care; they’ll either survive and become the dominant pear, or they’ll get eaten.