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From the article: > I wanted her take on Wanderfugl , the AI-powered map I've been building full-time. I can at least give you one piece of advice. Before you
by vunderba 11mo ago
From the article:
> I wanted her take on Wanderfugl , the AI-powered map I've been building full-time.
I can at least give you one piece of advice. Before you decide on a company or product name, take the time to speak it out loud so you can get a sense of how it sounds.
- epolanski 11mo agoAlso, do it assuming different linguistic backgrounds. It could sound dramatically different by people that speak English but as second language, which are going to be a whole lot of your users, even if the application is in English.
- mips_avatar 11mo agoIt's pronounced wanderfull in Norwegian
- epolanski 11mo agoAnd how many of your users are going to have Nordic backgrounds? I personally thought it was wander _fughel_ or something. Let alone how difficult it is to remember how to spell it and look it up on Google.
- quickthrowman 11mo agoJust FYI, I would read it out loud in English as “wander fuggle”. I would assume most Americans would pronounce the ‘g’. I thought ‘wanderfugl’ was a throwback to ~15 years ago when it was fashionable to use a word but leave out vowels for no reason, like Flickr/ /Tumblr/Scribd/Blendr.
- hbosch 11mo ago"Wanderful" would be a better name.
- thinkling 11mo agoThe one current paying user of the app I've seen in this discussion called it "Wanderlog". FYI on the stickiness of the current name.
- richiebful1 11mo agowanderlog is a separate web service https://wanderlog.com/ https://wanderlog.com/
- Ekaros 11mo agoIf there is a g in there I will pronounce a g there. I have some standards and that is one. Pronouncing every single letter.
- basscomm 11mo ago> Pronouncing every single letter. Now I want to know how you pronounce words like: through, bivouac, and queue.
- adastra22 11mo agoYou don’t pronounce all the letters?
- badc0ffee 11mo ago
- efskap 11mo agoMaybe that's why they didn't go with the English cognate i.e. Wanderfowl, since being foul isn't great branding
- isomorphic 11mo agoWhat? You don't want travel tips from an itinerant swinger? Or for itinerant swingers?
- mips_avatar 11mo agoI grew up in Norway and there's this idea in Europe of someone who breaks from corporate culture and hikes and camps a lot (called wandervogel in german). I also liked how when pronounced in Norwegian or Swedish it sounds like wander full. I like the idea of someone who is full of wander.
- throw-qqqqq 11mo agoSame in Danish FWIW. In English, I’d pronounce it very similar to “wonderful”.
- adastra22 11mo agoIf OP dropped the g, it would be a MUCh better product name.
- mips_avatar 11mo agoI actually own wanderfull.ai
- adastra22 11mo agoDrop an l would be better I think
- throw-qqqqq 11mo agoSolid advice. Seeing how many here would pronounce it differently, I totally agree hahah
- isqueiros 11mo agothis would make it even closer to the dangerously similar travel planning app "wanderlog"
- nutjob2 11mo agoAre you a native speaker? Because said quickly in typical English it sounds like "wonderfukl" which isn't great.
- adastra22 11mo agoAnd if you manage to say it outloud, say it to someone else and ask them to spell it. If they can’t spell it, they can’t type it into the url bar.
- littlekey 11mo agoThe weird thing is that half of the uses of the name on that landing page spell it as "Wanderfull". All of the mock-up screencaps use it, and at the bottom with "Be one of the first people shaping Wanderfull" etc. So even the creator can't decide what to call it!
- sleazebreeze 11mo agoAI probably generated all of that and the OP didn't even review its output.
- Barrin92 11mo agoI think the more pressing advice here is, limit yourself to one name (https://wanderfugl.com/images/guides.png https://wanderfugl.com/images/guides.png) this must be one of the incredible AI innovations the folks in Seattle are missing out on
- svth 11mo agoWhat's wrong with wahn-der-fyoo-gull?