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Comment by iguanayou | Hacker News Reader

Pet peeve: Software companies that name their product after the noun that their project is a giant database of. "People" is the stupidest example I've seen yet.

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That's not even the name of the product. People was the hackathon project name. Regardless it's a pretty strange pet peeve. I really don't see the problem.

Those kind of names are generally much harder to search for for one.

They’re private, internal projects. Regardless of the name, you’re not going to find much useful on Google.

Currently, yes. Elsewhere in this thread the author mentioned they do think of making it open source from time to time.

And looking beyond the current example, there are multiple things called home known by millions of people (the English word and the Google product, and I'm sure there must be more).

When you want to find a Google Home online, do you have trouble doing so due to the apparently ambiguous name?

I like to be able to refer to products by their name, rather than have to name the parent company in order to make clear what I mean.

But the name of the product includes the parent company name. It's called Google Home, not Home.

It was my first thought as well, Home is both an extremely generic word and is the name of an existing product by at least one huge vendor.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a pet peeve, but naming things definitely appears to be a challenge.

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