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Ask HN: How did you come up with your startup name?

5 pointsby amerf1almost 11 years ago
Just curious to know and let others know how you came up with your startup name

3 comments

ASquarealmost 11 years ago
Mine is called PlanitWide (<a href="http://www.planitwide.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planitwide.com</a>) - a travel focused startup.<p>The first thing my co-founder &amp; I agreed on is that we wanted to avoid having &quot;trip&quot;, &quot;travel&quot; or anything that was a variant of those two words in the name.<p>The reason for that is that there&#x27;s a really long list of travel startups that have those 2 words in their name and we felt we&#x27;d risk getting lost among them if did too.<p>However we absolutely wanted a name that had some correlation with travel &amp; specifically our solution - which explicitly meant not having a nonsensical&#x2F;unrelated name.<p>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.<p>So we wanted the name to embody:<p>a) the holistic nature of this vision in terms of planning trips and<p>b) it&#x27;s global nature in terms of destinations and who could use it<p>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<p>One of those words was Planetwide. On a whim we substituted the first &quot;e&quot; with an &quot;i&quot; 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.<p>Of course the domain name was also available for cheap which just sealed the deal.
rosiusyvesalmost 11 years ago
What do you think of &quot;Glasskan&quot;.<p>I made it up by watching the most used brand names, that have become a generic term.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_generic_and_genericized...</a>
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kngspookalmost 11 years ago
I came here to ask exactly this. I&#x27;m having so much trouble coming up with one.
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