Comment by TacticalCoder
4 hours ago
> Solvinity is a pretty terrible company name.
I find it okay'ish. At least it's unique. Say, as much as I like Mario Zechner (who doesn't like HNers anymore for whatever reason), naming your product "Pi" is just terribly bad.
Facebook was a good name (hate the company but the name was good). But "Meta" is just dumbfucktarded.
Wait... I've got an idea: I'm going to make a product and name it "Alt". Or "Control".
Really: there are a lot of totally unhelpful name that just confuses everybody, including search engines, humans, and LLMs but I don't think "Solvinity" is that bad.
I've always found Whatsapp a terrible name, but its so established now that 'apping' is understood. If you're big enough it seems that a bad name hardly hold you back.
"To whatsapp" is a common verb, but I have never heard anyone say "apping".
Where do you live where "apping" is understood?
Can confirm that it's an extremely common verb in The Netherlands.
https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/appen-whatsappen-vervoeging
Heard it many times in the Netherlands.
Reminds me of the old joke:
After Bill and Melinda Gates have their honeymoon, Melinda says, "Now I know why you call it Microsoft."