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If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work

by pgt 1y ago

VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I don't think that advice has been relevant anymore for awhile now.
- pgt 1y ago
  It's still relevant.
CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html > If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name. But they do own https://twake-drive.com/ https://twake-drive.com/ already? What exactly is your point here? Either you misunderstand the linked article, or I do. But seems people would be able to find that just fine if they search for, as twake-drive.com comes up as the first result when I search for "Twake Drive". Besides, Graham's articles are almost always geared towards startups in one way or another. This doesn't seem to be that, so not sure I'd even try to read it if I was the owner of Twake Drive.
- pgt 1y ago
  The name is hard to convey. Try telling someone verbally how to find it without error: "Twake. No, not take - like Wake with a T, Twayke. T double you ay kay ee. Oh, and there's a hyphen in the domain. T-Wake hyphen Drive dot com." Re: should they read it? Either you want your product to spread, or you don't. If you're posting it on HN, you want to share it, and for it to be shared. A tough name makes it harder to share, so you have to decide if you really want your product to spread or not.
devsda 1y ago
It can go wrong too. You search that in Google with file sharing keywords and the AI will helpfully correct it to 'do you mean GDrive?' They would've lost a prospective user to a competitor while sounding like a knockoff of some other product.
- pgt 1y ago
  search engine "correction" to GDrive is a good point. Both Brave & Duck correct to GDrive, but Google finds a local "t-drive" product in ZA.
emeril 1y ago
Yeah - Twake is a terrible name though, tbf, I wonder what the use case is for open source cloud drive outside of pretty niche situations esp when the cost, in many cases, is for the infrastructure in part
bogwog 1y ago
Where was this guy when Mr Newel was setting up store.steampowered.com? Imagine how much more successful they'd be if they went with steam.com instead

If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work

by pgt 1y ago

If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work

VWWHFSfQ 1y ago

I don't think that advice has been relevant anymore for awhile now.

pgt 1y ago
It's still relevant.

CaptainOfCoit 1y ago

> If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html > If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name. But they do own https://twake-drive.com/ https://twake-drive.com/ already? What exactly is your point here? Either you misunderstand the linked article, or I do. But seems people would be able to find that just fine if they search for, as twake-drive.com comes up as the first result when I search for "Twake Drive". Besides, Graham's articles are almost always geared towards startups in one way or another. This doesn't seem to be that, so not sure I'd even try to read it if I was the owner of Twake Drive.

pgt 1y ago
The name is hard to convey. Try telling someone verbally how to find it without error: "Twake. No, not take - like Wake with a T, Twayke. T double you ay kay ee. Oh, and there's a hyphen in the domain. T-Wake hyphen Drive dot com." Re: should they read it? Either you want your product to spread, or you don't. If you're posting it on HN, you want to share it, and for it to be shared. A tough name makes it harder to share, so you have to decide if you really want your product to spread or not.

devsda 1y ago

It can go wrong too. You search that in Google with file sharing keywords and the AI will helpfully correct it to 'do you mean GDrive?' They would've lost a prospective user to a competitor while sounding like a knockoff of some other product.

pgt 1y ago
search engine "correction" to GDrive is a good point. Both Brave & Duck correct to GDrive, but Google finds a local "t-drive" product in ZA.

emeril 1y ago

Yeah - Twake is a terrible name though, tbf, I wonder what the use case is for open source cloud drive outside of pretty niche situations esp when the cost, in many cases, is for the infrastructure in part

bogwog 1y ago

Where was this guy when Mr Newel was setting up store.steampowered.com? Imagine how much more successful they'd be if they went with steam.com instead