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Ask HN: How did you come up with your startup name?
Just curious to know and let others know how you came up with your startup name
- ASquare 12y agoMine is called PlanitWide (http://www.planitwide.com http://www.planitwide.com) - a travel focused startup. The first thing my co-founder & I agreed on is that we wanted to avoid having "trip", "travel" or anything that was a variant of those two words in the name. The reason for that is that there's a really long list of travel startups that have those 2 words in their name and we felt we'd risk getting lost among them if did too. However we absolutely wanted a name that had some correlation with travel & specifically our solution - which explicitly meant not having a nonsensical/unrelated name. Secondly, the vision for our solution is for it to be a one-stop shop for any kind of travel, for any kind of person i.e - PlanitWide would be the starting and end point for planning any kind of trip in the world. So we wanted the name to embody: a) the holistic nature of this vision in terms of planning trips and b) it's global nature in terms of destinations and who could use it From there on it was playing around and coming up with (what we thought) were interesting plays on words and phrases that met all of these criteria One of those words was Planetwide. On a whim we substituted the first "e" with an "i" and serendipitously stumbled onto a name that we thought was perfect. We tested it out with people we knew and unanimously got a great response. Of course the domain name was also available for cheap which just sealed the deal.
- kngspook 12y agoI came here to ask exactly this. I'm having so much trouble coming up with one.
- percept 12y agoWhat's your app (or the gist of it)?
- kngspook 12y agoI want to kill email, by replacing it with something new. I don't want incremental improvements or altered workflows, but rather a new technical underpinning that lets people continue to write long-form messages to each other. I have much grander ambitions for the company later on though, so I don't want to lock myself in with some company name like NewMail, Inc.
- rosiusyves 12y agoWhat do you think of "Glasskan". I made it up by watching the most used brand names, that have become a generic term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
- percept 12y agoA postmodern waste receptacle from Ikea, perhaps?
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- rosiusyves 12y agoHaha, that would describe the product almost perfectly. Only the "Ikea" part has to go ;-)