Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by mousematrix on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:22PM
(#44725280)
great point...honestly this will be our 3rd rebrand, but worth considering. I am just hoping that we are in a different enough space that it could slide....
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by stuaxo on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @01:44PM
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Yeah, please don't stick with Xorq, it's so visually similar to Xorg, it looks like the bottom of the g didn't render, which is totally possible on the web.
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by mousematrix on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:22PM
(#44726699)
I think so too...seriously considering changing the name
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by zcw100 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:25PM
(#44730144)
And how do you pronounce it? EX-ork, Zork, Ex or Que?
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by secondrow on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @11:09PM
(#44730610)
pronounced "zork" per: https://www.xorq.dev/blog/introducing-xorq
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by zcw100 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @01:29PM
(#44737080)
The point was it's not obvious.
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by jmclnx on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:48PM
(#44725626)
I agree, I saw Xorq and with the font I have, it looked like Xorg.
No offense, but I avoid AI like a plague, so I saw this I thought "WHY?", thinking it was X11 (Xorg).
Now a bit of a rant. Why or why do people have to use X??? for their products, time to come up with something else. If I was the Xorg foundation I would have sued Twitter. And I would have sent a letter to the smaller tech people using X for their product :)
Re:Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by mousematrix on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @01:05PM
(#44725820)
this is really useful. In our case, we are inspired by a terminal game called Zork, which is an Activision trademark. So, we tried to be creative and replacing Z with X made sense at the time. Of course, we did not want to be like any "dork", hence the Q.
Now I read this tought process above, I think this leaves much to be desired.
I would suggest rebranding if you just released it.