It's a perfect name b/c I don't need this tool now, but I probably will later. And I will never, EVER forget the name. Kudos.

It's great to live in a time when developers can build products for other developers.

When was that ever not the case?

The key word was products, i.e. making a living from building tools for other developers.

There are many more developer-run companies today than there were 10 years ago and the number will continue to grow. There have never been more opportunities to do that than right now.

AFAIK, it's actually the opposite — only recently is this a hard thing, with the proliferation of OSS development tools.

OSS is an opportunity. It's not about the software; it's about the services and the ecosystem. There are a lot of people making money from Wordpress plugins, themes, and development.

I got the idea from pingdom.com , and then I put crondom.com together and my mind was utterly juvenile and told me "WOW, this is the best thing EVAR".

I actually didn't even consider that far; I stopped after "why would you name your product something like condom".

To be fair, it's a solid idea that I imagine would do well regardless of the name. To continue being fair, it's hard to picture the name not being a point of friction in at least some scenarios For instance, picking the name out of a list of possible choices. There are unfortunately likely more limiting scenarios than that.

I'll probably launch a better brand-name that's more family safe, but when I thought up this name my gut instinct was a giant "YES, this is so awesome".

You're not selling to families. You're selling to sysadmins and developers. Crondom is a perfect name.

He's selling to sysadmins and developers many (most?) of whom will have to get management approval to purchase. The name can definitely be a limiting factor to sales.

That was also my first thought.

I was thinking an image of a "hot babe" on the landing page would add a little more humor to the domain name.

No, it would merely add sexism. Don't be sexist.