How did you come up with the name for your startup?

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Alfonso Alvarez
Warning ⚠️ Cheese words coming. It came up from as the weird solution for our problem. Literally. Our main focus is to help people to connect deeper even remotely. It started from a pain, of course. Burnout. "Why do I feel so overwhelmed with everything that surrounds me? I know I can feel better.". After several months of recovery, a thought in the back of the head: "How do I help others to prevent feeling this way?". Long story short, after science research, it turns out that to stay motivated and be super performant and feel great, the best way is:"to build tribes": To work better as a team: Tribu. My first frmr Co-founder thought of the name, actually. Up votes for him.
@aalvz That's a great story💯
Filip Ognjanovic
Pretty simple. We're creating a crypto wallet for businesses, so: Business + Wallet = Bizzllet 🦬
@filip_ognjanovic That's a nice name.
Artsiom Hontar
Just a Minecraft nickname, generated in childhood. Our company name is SeterX. Have quite convenient naming conventions for sub-niches. Like Seter Graphic Labs, Seter Blog etc
Aditya Kumar Saroj
I wanted the word "icon" to be in the name of my AI icon generator. So from "IconGPT" to "IconMagic" (and dozens in between)....finally to IconMage (https://www.producthunt.com/post...).
@aditya_kumar_saroj That's a nice name and your product is amazing
Bojan Gulevski
My startup is a combination of two words, Logo Masterpieces, The name speaks itself :)
George Brooks
Looking back at my passion for coffee, I remember the golden layer on top of an espresso was called Crema. I found an early sweet spot helping developer create a better UX on their products. The golden layer. Now we deploy entire product teams. Crema has come a long way in 14 years.
@george_brooks1 That's really impressive to run a business for 14 years. Congratulations!
Johanna Switzer
It was a process, starting with some cool words that I thought and a brainstorming with the team. Then, we chose 5 words and out of those, we thought about similar words that we could find attractive, and that's how we came out with the final name idea.
@johanna_switzer That's nice. What was the name you finally picked?
Rhen Zabel
As an iPAAS we thought about names that reflected us being the last visible layer a developer needs to interact with. This lead us towards thinking about the light spectrum, and we chose “Violet” since it’s the last color you see at one end of the spectrum. Coincidentally, the “violet.io” domain had just gone up for sale that same week we landed on the name so it felt like it was meant to be.
@rhenzabel Thats awesome, glad you were able to get the domain as well
Mo Eltahir
So the way we came up with the name is by following a small bullet points Q/A-style plan I came up with: 💡we came up with the Name: Fonda Agency 👇 And this is how: 1- What do we do ? 🏗 Brand Development Agency. We develop a digital Identity for our clients, work includes: - Market Analysis. - Legal documents. - Web app Development. - Digital design: Logo development, Graphic design, 3D Animation. - AI (NLP, ML Finetuning models for clients) - SEO and Digital Marketing. - Content Writing. - Logistics: shipping and payment getaway. 2- How does the name relate to our customers ? we are building a foundation for their business (aka. brand this could be partial stuff like the software, marketing and social media..etc) 3- Name checkmark: 🤔 > Note: Besides the first point, the others are optional and really helpful we weren't able to meet all of them, but here we are the name stuck with us and didn't have much competition in Asia. • Has to be available: (we used namechk and other tools) Make sure it's available on social media (plz don't forget Github, HuggingFace if you want to do software), the domain also and check google maps. • One word: we wanted to be one word so it's better/easier for SEO and people to pronounce and remember it. • Easy to be pronounced in many languages (we have already been exposed to more than 8-10 languages in Asia, the EU & Africa so this wasn't that hard for us & using google Translate for extra help we were golden). I highly recommend checking university or online communities Reddit/discord and other places where you can find youngsters (around the 21 years old mark) who are native speakers and the name is easily digestible for them and doesn't have bad meaning to it. -> There are many reasons why we followed this method will take a while for me to explain. ------- 4- 🚀 Picking the name: So we went on and thought of one word that represents our work and the goal of what will happen when you will work with us and we actually finish the job..etc: we like to think of abstract stuff like light, foundation, hope ...etc Then we translate whatever word that comes to our mind to many languages. we thought of everything from Arabic, English to Korean, Spanish and Hungarian ...etc 🤗 finally, we stayed with Fonda. the idea we build the foundation of our clients that they can utilize to work and grow their businesses. Origin: from foundation in English to Italian fondazione we took the first part of the word (Fonda) and we ran with it we notice it's easy for many people here in Asia to pronounce it, it's short & sweet. And we were able to snag fonda.agency as our domain for cheap (around 24 USD if I'm not mistaken for 2 years + SSL and protection/privacy in WHO's lookup)
@mo_ela Thanks for sharing, it's an amazing story
Andrei Costea
@mo_ela such an awesome answer!
Arbaaz