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Xavier Coiffard

How do you find a name for your projects?

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Naming is always a pain (even while coding). How do you proceed when you have a new product but can't find the right name? I've used Namelix but that doesn't really help… For my previous startup we spent literally several weeks on this. What're your tips to get a good name?
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Helene Auramo
My newest startup is named Prönö. It comes from the word "entrepreneur". Because we Finns find it very difficult to pronounce "antreprönöyr". So it became Prönö. www.prono.fi I had many alternative name ideas but after sparring with my friend a while she told me that all the names I had mentioned were booooring and didn't sound like me. Then she asked: "Don't you really have anything else?". I said that "I have had this Prönö name in my head for a while already, but wasn't sure about it". She told me that it is different, it looks like me and is perfect. So I took that name and haven't regretted it once. So my advice is this: talk with people. :)
Ziad B. Tannous
@helene_auramo love what you are trying to do. Definitely gonna sign up for the launch. Cheers
Helene Auramo
@ziad_tannous Thank you <3
Vladimír Seman
why not start with searching for available com domain? i try https://leandomainsearch.com/ for that, i would be glad if you can suggest more similar tools.
Xavier Coiffard
@vladojsem Hey Vladimir, I use namemesh.com for that! It shows you the free domain names and make some suggestions based on your keywords. (For the social media accounts you can use namechk.com)
Vladimír Seman
@angezanetti thank you for the suggestion
Nick Freiling
I built surveysays.app for this very reason -- so you can answers these kinds of questions using feedback from real-world consumers. Actually just launched it on Product Hunt yesterday: SurveySays.
Alexandra Dolia
We name our company and internal projects by its key value. For example, Akurateco is accuracy from Esperanto - a very precise name for Payments Management Software I think =)
Xavier Coiffard
@alexandradolia I guess that's the only use of Esperanto !
Yuliia Mamonov 🇺🇦
Figure our what's your most valuable advantage and promote it through the name. Or maybe NameSnack can help here - I haven't used it myself but it has tons of positive reviews.
Xavier Coiffard
@yulia_mamonova I did not know NameSnack, I think I prefer namelix…
Vladimír Seman
@yulia_mamonova @angezanetti i am solving the same thing now. i have tried namesnack, but it suggests only very long names... or is it just me not knowing how to use it?
Vineet Sinha
Make t-shirts with names and logos. Go in public. See how many people ask what it is.
Xavier Coiffard
@vineet_sinha ahahah, that's the expensive way of doing it :)
Xavier Coiffard
I finally asked Twitter to name my next project → https://twitter.com/AngeZanetti/...
Sean Connolly
I've used namelix. It generates a lot of nonsense but also provides many ideas that I wouldn't think of on my own. https://namelix.com/
Ziad B. Tannous
Mine didn't find hard time to name mine. It's a Start-Ups discovery platform and newsletter and I had this domain name registered since longer than I can remember hence Start-Ups.net (btw the original Start-Ups word is hyphenated)
Marquis Kurt
When naming my games, I heavily focus on capturing the main themes from those games. In the case of Unscripted, I wanted to capture the fact that the experience of submitting a game to a prestigious arcade and hoping it will get accepted isn't really scriptable; personal experiences may vary. For The Costumemaster, I wanted to capture the main mechanic in the game: switching between costumes. You may want to first get a list of the main themes and points of your project, and then see where you can go that captures these ideas.
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