How did you choose your product/startup name?

Marvin Mändle
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Crewting is a mix of "Crew" and "Meeting". So share your thoughts behind your name and where you got the idea? In the shower or in the office?

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Mahir Muzahid
II believe the most important is small name! The connection with your business is ok but in the long run if your business holds up high its important customers to remember your business name! Try 6-7 latter at max. Make it catchy and at last have little connection with you business
Marvin Mändle
@mahir_muzahid I agree that name should be short. What means "Oturan"?
Mahir Muzahid
@marvin_maendle "Oturan" sounds like "Auto Run" ! Which we do! Automate website search and query and another thing is its just backward of my favourite anime show naruto😅
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Marvin Mändle
@mahir_muzahid exactly these stories I wanted to hear, really like it. Good luck for your launch, will follow:)
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Janak Patel
I think it is more of a process than a sudden idea. I copied the post recently I shared on X: Your startup's name is its identity. It should be: - - Memorable: Easy to remember and pronounce. - Global: Works well in different languages and cultures. - Professional: Reflects your brand and industry. - Available: The domain name and social media handles should be available. Stuck for ideas? Try these tips: - Combine words: Merging two words can create a unique and meaningful name. - Use numbers: Numbers can add a modern and distinctive touch. - Get creative: Don't be afraid to think outside the box. - Check availability: Make sure your chosen name is available as a domain name and on social media. 💡 Need more help? There are plenty of online tools and resources to help you brainstorm and choose the perfect name for your startup. 🚀 Once you've chosen a name, make sure it's consistent across all your marketing materials and online presence.
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Marvin Mändle
@janak_patel56 thanks for sharing this helpful insights. What is the story between TweeFeed? "Tweet" and "Feed"?
Janak Patel
@marvin_maendle Twee is for Tweet, Feed means content. Helping you to generate reply/message (content) ideas for reply/DM.
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Massimo Chieruzzi
Picking a name is always challenging. Here's the ground rules we used to pick AdEspresso: - We wanted something with a .com available - Company name starts with an A (Facebook partner portal and many others list companies alphabetically) - Something that reminded of Italy (espresso) - Something easy to spell even with our bad Italian pronunciation (espresso) From here we started combining words until we found a domain available. Overall coming up with good names is fairly easy. Finding an available or reasonably priced .com domain is a nightmare. I'm not 100% opposed to .io domains or other TLD as long as you don't get very strong SEO competitors on the .com that will always outrank you.
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Marvin Mändle
@massimocw thanks for sharing. Helpful points, never thought about the argument with the partner portals etc. I really like Ad Expresso. Definitely a name I would remember (Who don't like expresso?!;))
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Francesco D'Alessio
By accident. For Keep Productive, I kept signing off videos like "have a great day and keep productive" so it spiralled from here.
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Gary Sztajnman
We tried with a first name for a mobile app: HelloHola.app but then pivoted to a webapp for B2B. We decided to focus on our true mission: "Reach the entire world, Translate videos to put it in front of 8 Billion Viewers" So hello8.ai
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Marvin Mändle
@garysz cool story! Hello8 is easy to unterstand and also really modern. Like it for a tech company. We also combine our mission with our name. Crewting - Turn isolated remote worker into deeply connected crews
Joep van den Bogaert
First and last letters of VOice streAM makes “voam”. Makes sense for a product that runs AI workflows (streams) based on voice recordings, right?
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Joep van den Bogaert
@marvin_maendle Indeed, that's the main thing. It's short and people don't have other associations with the name (I hope).
Carl Lager
We checked a million options based on avalible domains related to our business. After a lot of searching we found the domain Gilion which matches a lot what we do .A mix of Giga (Data) and Billion (Funding) became Gilion :)
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Hossein Yazdi
@carllager Gilion sounds very relevant. Did you manage to find a .com domain for it? Btw, hit the notify me button for Gilion! Let's support each other's launch! :)
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Hossein Yazdi
I used several days on Namelix and actually I found some potential names. However, none of them were really satisfying for me until I came up myself with the name 'Webcurate'. I instantly felt that it check marked all the points I was looking for my brand name. Btw, I'm also launching soon! Just hit the notify me button for your launch. Let's support each other! 😊
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The very first one was "Mess Menu" simple ,small and yet with high callback value
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Marvin Mändle
@neeraj_karnawat why did you switch to Fieldmobi?
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Wylo - What you love We're a platform that lets brands and people run online communities for their needs and do what they love ;) so there you go.
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Tap + Refer: TapRefer Victory + Rays : Victrays I use namelix.com to get name + .com domain check
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@marvin_maendle you can easily get creative 7 letter dot com domain names, too much options that you will keep loading more... more and more
World Of Onepiece
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Coro
I tried a lot of two-word combinations (inspired from Face+book, Git+Hub, You+Tube) for names, but could not find any available .com domain names. After spending days on it, I looked at our tagline: "The story within you" and came up with "Storiny" ("STORy withIN You").
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Jon Wesselink
Fedica used to be Tweepsmap. Then we outgrew Twitter and mapping alone as a social media management Saas. So whats Fedica? It's like a Xerox but really it's a play on Fediverse (the next gen of Social Media) because of two things: 1) we always built novel capabilities first and 2) we're striving to build a community across platforms, like the wonders of the Fediverse promises. :D
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Shawn Olds
My co-founder and I both went to West Point. As a cadet everything in your room is issued to you, except for one box you are allowed to keep in an overhead above your closet. In that box you were allowed to keep all the cookies, candies and treats that you could shove in and for a century that has been called a Cadet's Boodle Box. So boodle at West Point is highly sought after, hard to get and very expensive. boodleAI is helping people find more time in their day, time is always sought after, hard to get and very expensive!
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Marvin Mändle
@shawn_olds1 thanks for explaining. Cool story behind boodle. And sounds like you help to safe time, will check this!
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Anastasia Liamets
That's a GREAT question – we we playing around with different words and combinations, and come up with a simple 'Milestone', as we want to help users achieve milestones while having a gamified experience. I love it! And everyone is now saying to me that every time they say or hear 'milestone' - they think of us 😻 P.S. we're launching tomorrow!! so excited
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Ricardo Batista
Co-founder says: "we're building an email platform, in Spanish we call emails Emilios". I jump immediately to GoDaddy to check availability.
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Leonardo Rodrigues
I can say to you that I'm the worst person in the world to give names for anything, ahahah. My dog is called 'Harry Potter' (I'm a big fan). My digital agency is called 'ZeroEleven' because it's the area code where the agency is located (São Paulo, Brazil), and here we say '011' like zero eleven 😂😂
Elle Gzirishvili
there are 7 different types of brand names: descriptive (booking.com) where it's very straightforward and gives out what the company does, Evocative - you can take an existing word and give it a new meaning (apple, amazon), invented - when you invent a new word (pixar, adidas), lexical (tumblr, dunkin'donuts), acronyms (BMW, MTV), geographical (KFC), Founder - companies named after the founder (ford, calvin klein), mashing the words associated with your company is a common and a good way to create a brand name, gives out what the company does while having an originality and a feeling like creating a new word for it, so good call on that! our company Biliki AI actually comes from a Georgian word 'Biliki' which means 'path' or 'pathway'!
Tyrone Robb
I thought Crewting was for recruiting. They sound very similar in a Northern English accent (in my head). In a London accent, it could be more like crew-ting