Touca is shutting down

Re:Touca is shutting down by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:01PM (#35381466)

One of your problems: The first time I heard of your product was the shut down notice. Just had to ask "what is Touca?"

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Re:Touca is shutting down by pejman_gh on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:10PM (#35381541)

I admit it's always been a point of struggle for me as a technical solo first-time founder. We should have done a better job with messaging too.

Having said that, our v2 launch last month was on the front page for about a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959276 ...but it was too little too late.

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Re:Touca is shutting down by dancemethis on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:30AM (#35382581)

Toucas are plastic caps you put on your head to take baths wihtout getting hair wet. Weird choice of a name for such an interesting tool.

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Re:Touca is shutting down by pejman_gh on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:37AM (#35383478)

I think that's in Portuguese? Touca is also the name of a bird (Toucan) in Farsi.

I wanted a name that is easy to type on the command-line (since that's the interface for many users), easy to pronounce, and somewhat meaningless in English. Touca was the best I could think of. :)

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