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Re:Show HN: Fion – A new tool to track your spending, withou... by speps on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:55AM (#24698292)
Filon is also bad, means running away... Having a product name being different in different countries would hurt the brand too.
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Re:Show HN: Fion – A new tool to track your spending, withou... by wazoox on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:20AM (#24698608)
"Filon" means a mine vein (and is used figuratively as a source of easy money). So the name seems pretty good.
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Re:Show HN: Fion – A new tool to track your spending, withou... by blackbirdster on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:28AM (#24698727)
As far the dictionary goes, that's true.

But "filons" is the imperative tense of a verb literaly meaning "let's run away".

And also "Fillon" is the name of a politician who was exposed for fraud while he was running for presidency. He was sentenced last spring, his name was all over French news for a while, and it became quite infamous.

edit, added more context

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Re:Show HN: Fion – A new tool to track your spending, withou... by wazoox on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:45AM (#24698962)
Sure, but as I said "un filon" or "un bon filon" as meaning "easy money" is very common.
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