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Lisp Startup Name

3 points by CaiGengYang 11y ago

I am creating a Lisp website (a hack!) for people who want to post their technological imaginations on it where they can describe their ideas and also illustrate them with simple diagrams and show it to friends and families. I came upon this idea when I realised that many people might have the secret desire to invent, create something that would improve human lives but have never dared to pursue their dreams due to fear of failure and ridicule. I need a really cool web 2.0 startup name , can't seem to think of one at the moment. The best I can think of is Lispy --- it's not taken and sounds nice ...

veddox 11y ago
Can't think of a name of the top of my head, but if I were you I'd think again about Lispy: first, it's the name of a Lisp interpreter that Peter Norvig wrote in Python (http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html). Second, if your users type "www.lipsy.com" by accident, they end up on a site selling women's clothing. BTW, settle down for a long wait for your name ;-) Choosing a name tends to take quite a bit of time. Although I'm too young to have started a proper startup, I participated in the German Highschool Startup Challenge some time back with some friends. It took us two-three weeks of intense debate to find a name we could live with, and it was far from perfect.
partisan 11y ago
Is Lisp core to the functioning of the product or is it going to be transparent to your end users? If the site could be written in another language with zero impact to the users, then I don't know that picking a Lisp(y) name is going to be a good way to attract people to your site. In the interest of answering your question, I found the following: --- Reification Reification is a generic term that roughly means "Make an abstract concept" concrete. Specific to programming, when something is reified, it roughly means you can treat it as data (or "First-class object"). An example of this in lisp is functions the lambda expression gives you the ability to create a concrete, first-class object that represents the abstract concept of a function call. Another example is a CLOS class, which is itself a CLOS object, that represents the abstract concept of a class. --- Reification is the idea of taking an abstract idea and making it concrete. Take a look on namemesh for reify and reification to see what pops out at you. Hope that helps.
- MalcolmDiggs 11y ago
  Agreed. If anyone can tell what kind of backend stack you're using from the basic GUI/user-experience, that's a problem. If they go digging, sure, but it shouldn't be obvious.
smeyer 11y ago
User brudgers here on hacker news sometimes comments in these sorts of threads, and their advice may be applicable. The crux of their point seems to be to be careful, because picking names seems like fun but it's not the sort of real work that will make your startup a success, so don't let it suck up time and don't worry about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663605
woah 11y ago
Lith
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Lisp Startup Name

3 points by CaiGengYang 11y ago

veddox 11y ago

Can't think of a name of the top of my head, but if I were you I'd think again about Lispy: first, it's the name of a Lisp interpreter that Peter Norvig wrote in Python (http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html). Second, if your users type "www.lipsy.com" by accident, they end up on a site selling women's clothing. BTW, settle down for a long wait for your name ;-) Choosing a name tends to take quite a bit of time. Although I'm too young to have started a proper startup, I participated in the German Highschool Startup Challenge some time back with some friends. It took us two-three weeks of intense debate to find a name we could live with, and it was far from perfect.

partisan 11y ago

Is Lisp core to the functioning of the product or is it going to be transparent to your end users? If the site could be written in another language with zero impact to the users, then I don't know that picking a Lisp(y) name is going to be a good way to attract people to your site. In the interest of answering your question, I found the following: --- Reification Reification is a generic term that roughly means "Make an abstract concept" concrete. Specific to programming, when something is reified, it roughly means you can treat it as data (or "First-class object"). An example of this in lisp is functions the lambda expression gives you the ability to create a concrete, first-class object that represents the abstract concept of a function call. Another example is a CLOS class, which is itself a CLOS object, that represents the abstract concept of a class. --- Reification is the idea of taking an abstract idea and making it concrete. Take a look on namemesh for reify and reification to see what pops out at you. Hope that helps.

MalcolmDiggs 11y ago
Agreed. If anyone can tell what kind of backend stack you're using from the basic GUI/user-experience, that's a problem. If they go digging, sure, but it shouldn't be obvious.

smeyer 11y ago

User brudgers here on hacker news sometimes comments in these sorts of threads, and their advice may be applicable. The crux of their point seems to be to be careful, because picking names seems like fun but it's not the sort of real work that will make your startup a success, so don't let it suck up time and don't worry about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663605

woah 11y ago

Lith

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