I’d like to ask LW for feedback on names for my upcoming todo list app.
In summary, I spent the last 2 years developing a todo app to replace Wunderlist because I’ve always been unsatisfied with it. I mentioned the app on LW earlier. Microsoft recently announced that they plan to shut down Wunderlist, which is a one-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunity, so I’m currently in scramble mode preparing everything (site, app, company) for the closure event.
The central idea of the app is that it helps you keep your todo list focused on what you can do right now, at this very moment (the approach is similar to Mark Forster’s Autofocus system and is heavily based on the concept of mental ‘ripeness’ of the task to be done).
So here’s my shortlist of names (all with .com domains I already own):
Matterlist
LumenList
PragmaPad
PragmaPlanner
Persisto
Which name do you like the most? Which ones sound bad to you?
When giving feedback, consider Paul Graham’s advice on naming: “It turns out almost any word or word pair that is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one.” So if any of the names jumps at you as ‘obviously bad’, please let me know.
Tell this to Vladimir_Golovin. I have just installed the poll, exactly for the names he proposed.
I think, the option “none of the above” is useless. Imagine some future parents have a list of potential names for their offspring. Mary, Magdalene, Judith and Margarete. They show you this list and ask you which name would you choose.
Would you still demand “none of the above” option? (Applications are somewhat like children.)
There’s no chance that I will be able to secure xlist.com or anything similar for a reasonable sum of money (i.e. under $3000 or so).
Edit: oh, sorry, I completely misread you (was in a hurry). I did a search on http://www.naminum.com/prepend?q=list, and there were one-syllable words among the results, but none of them jumped at me as a good name (in addition to the vast majority of them being already taken).
I’d like to ask LW for feedback on names for my upcoming todo list app.
In summary, I spent the last 2 years developing a todo app to replace Wunderlist because I’ve always been unsatisfied with it. I mentioned the app on LW earlier. Microsoft recently announced that they plan to shut down Wunderlist, which is a one-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunity, so I’m currently in scramble mode preparing everything (site, app, company) for the closure event.
The central idea of the app is that it helps you keep your todo list focused on what you can do right now, at this very moment (the approach is similar to Mark Forster’s Autofocus system and is heavily based on the concept of mental ‘ripeness’ of the task to be done).
So here’s my shortlist of names (all with .com domains I already own):
Matterlist
LumenList
PragmaPad
PragmaPlanner
Persisto
Which name do you like the most? Which ones sound bad to you?
When giving feedback, consider Paul Graham’s advice on naming: “It turns out almost any word or word pair that is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one.” So if any of the names jumps at you as ‘obviously bad’, please let me know.
‘Persisto’ is a supervillain in the guise of a window cleaner. I think.
Running the names through native speakers definitely was a good idea :D
I am a Ukrainian-born Russian-ethnic Ukrainian citizen :D
That’s why one should always run names through
[pollid:1201]
You should add a “None of the above” option. If I saw an app with these names, I’d be hard pressed to give it a chance.
You might want to try https://www.namingforce.com ; crowd sourced names; pay the winner $100.
Tell this to Vladimir_Golovin. I have just installed the poll, exactly for the names he proposed.
I think, the option “none of the above” is useless. Imagine some future parents have a list of potential names for their offspring. Mary, Magdalene, Judith and Margarete. They show you this list and ask you which name would you choose.
Would you still demand “none of the above” option? (Applications are somewhat like children.)
Au contraire, I think it’s quite useful and means exactly what it says: “I don’t like any of the options offered”.
In the case of children names, yes, if none of the proposed names are to my liking, I would find a polite way to say “None of the above”
Thomas, thank you for setting up the poll! Somehow this didn’t occur to me.
They all seem very long to me. Why not Xlist for some one syllable word X?
There’s no chance that I will be able to secure xlist.com or anything similar for a reasonable sum of money (i.e. under $3000 or so).
Edit: oh, sorry, I completely misread you (was in a hurry). I did a search on http://www.naminum.com/prepend?q=list, and there were one-syllable words among the results, but none of them jumped at me as a good name (in addition to the vast majority of them being already taken).
Because I think it would be useful to be able to weigh in explicitly on each option rather than just pick a favorite:
Matterlist[pollid:1202]
LumenList[pollid:1203]
PragmaPad[pollid:1204]
PragmaPlanner[pollid:1205]
Persisto[pollid:1206]