Junjie
@jjlin · Developer
I was wondering when someone would ask that question @pieterpaul!
We only decided on the name very late into the development, as we usually do for our apps.
We tried a number of naming strategies, and we came up with a lot of corny ones (like BlackCurrent).
Then I proposed Cuckoo. The thinking behind it was that abbreviating CUrrency COnverter gives me Cuco.
That led both of us to start thinking of animals. Animals that do some sort of conversion or travel. Of course we couldn't find any animals that do conversion, so we ended up with migratory animals.
Elk was single syllable, and sounded catchy to us.
I also like the fact that when looking at an Elk head on, the symmetry of the antlers resemble our iPhone app, where we have a left/right split converting one currency to another.
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