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The 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 doma
by muppetman 2y ago
The 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).