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Re:How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combin... by zosegal on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:55PM (#7389669)
It's short, memorable, and evokes positive emotion.
Re:How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combin... by Pacabel on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:17PM (#7389731)
Such names become much less memorable once there are numerous ones that share the same format.

It can rapidly get to the point where people remember that the name has an -ify or -ly or -joy suffix, but can't remember what the root word was.

Re:How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combin... by jamesjyu on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:31PM (#7389760)
But remember that the world out there isn't reading HN, nor is it likely that real customers are going to see multiple companies with the same meme in a particular vertical.
Re:How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combin... by bhouston on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:39AM (#7390201)
I still confuse spotify and shopify regularly when reading headlines quickly even though I know both companies and what they do very well.