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I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular,
by dlcarrier 2y ago
I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming.
I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.
- sangnoir 2y agoThese days, it's -ai. All those SomethingAI names won't age well, and will be dated sooner than the proprietors think
- PullJosh 2y agoI feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.
- theandrewbailey 2y agoFeels like late 2000s to very early 2010s. And note that it was never -er, the -r was invariably preceded by a consonant. Thankfully, subsequent naming schemes stopped disemvoweling words.
- Tronno 2y agoNot quite "never": e.g. Napster
- dmix 2y agoI think they mean -r as in Tumblr
- vintagedave 2y agoInnocent times. I miss this period of the internet.
- red-iron-pine 2y agogrindr, vultr, gettr, et al
- notatoad 2y agoi know it as a "web 2.0 thing", but i guess that counts as old-school internet now. that was all set off by flickr - they might not have been the first to do it, but they were the first to get popular enough to set off a wave of imitators.
- anal_reactor 2y agoUS and USSR
- poink 2y agoNames are hard. I'd say it says more about how little creativity we have in tech company business models
- muppetman 2y agoThe most hilarious startups are all called "get(name)" I guess the hope is they won't end up in the toilet and they might, in the future, be able to buy a domain not prefixed by "get"
- Philpax 2y agoMy personal favourite is PostHog, which sounds like something one might say on Grindr.
- jsheard 2y agoIt doesn't just sound like that, it was used to mean exactly what you think well before PostHog was founded. I'm still not sure if that was an accident or the founders were in on the joke.
- vintagedave 2y agoI am obviously incredibly ignorant (not that I’d normally think so — but here I have no idea!) but I can’t think of what this means. Would you mind explaining please?
- Philpax 2y agoHog is slang for human male genitalia. Given that, the company's name is an imperative command to share photos of such.
- post-it 2y agoGrindr is a hookup app for gay men. "Hog" is slang for penis, so one might ask someone to "post hog" if they would like him to send a picture of his penis.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoIt worked for thefacebook.com.
- nichochar 2y agoReasoning: .com is the best TLD by a long shot but it's really saturated, so as a startup you have no chance. As you say, the hope is to make it and be able to buy the X in getX.com where hopefully you've checked that X belongs to a squatter and not an existing company (they're both bad the latter is worse).
- dmix 2y agoIt's mostly about domain names, real words are all gone long ago so people self-funding the early days chose the real words with modifiers.
- tmendez 2y agoMy next startup will be called Rifyly
- schappim 2y agoTotally! I thought this would be from an app developer lamenting Shopify’s transition from REST to GraphQL…
- arwhatever 2y ago-alate, -ster, etc. :-)