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Ask HN: Methods and guides for engineering a great project name?

6 pointsby 1arityalmost 10 years ago
PG has said that coming up with a company name is an orthogonal skill to building a product. What are some methods you have used to create a name, and is it important ?<p>Some context around it not being so important is that AirBnB ( pretty great name ), originally started as AirBedAndBreakfast ( or something like that ), and that didn&#x27;t seem to matter. FB also infamously started with a &quot;the&quot;, and that also didn&#x27;t seem to matter.<p>Some evidence that it perhaps does matter, is that Brin and Page have said they spent &quot;ages&quot; thinking of a name, before eventually settling on a more readily spelled version of &quot;googol&quot;.

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