Re:Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to ...
by intenex on Sunday April 08, 2012 @07:29PM
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I think Brian's better than a large impersonal nothing, and I assume that was Brian's reasoning as well. On that note though, I agree that it would be cuter if Brian was a personified animal like a groundhog, or something along those lines. Removes the possibility of vanity perception.
Re:Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to ...
by indrax on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:58PM
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I'd say don't be turned off by that. It used to be quite common to name a company after the founders (though usually last name. Sometimes this is the result of the natural evolution of the product. (craigslist)
Add in namespace collision (beautifulday.com was taken) and it doesn't take any weird level of narcissism to tack on your name as an arbitrary modifier.
Edit: Ah, clicked the link, giant picture of himself.
Edit: if the feedback isn't straightforward enough, I'll say it more plainly. I feel like the use of your image and name throughout adds a somewhat strange flavor to the tool that some people, like me, won't respond positively to.
I end up wondering why putting yourself everywhere improves the service, I fail to come up with an answer, and assume its vanity. Not saying that's necessarily true in this case. Rather that in passing that would be my thought process and that at best it distracts from the charm of the service.