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My unprofessional professional opinion. The product looks great, but the name has to go. I can't imagine pronouncing that, let alone communicating it over a phone. Any simple word before analytics would be better.

Edit: pineapplytics is the obvious cute and available one, however may still be difficult to communicate.

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Fun fact: Only the English language calls the fruit "pineapple", almost every other language calls it "ananas" or similar.

I looked it up, I get it, but this post and the site, are targeting English speaking.

Now I really want the author to rename it pineapple in the English localization, and leave it Ananas every where else...

Well, or they just want everyone to be able to access it? There is really no choice than to publish something like this in English. Just a guess, but I'd guess the amount of people ccessing it who are not native English speakers is larger than those who are.

That's a bit bold statement... In Spanish is Piña and in Portuguese is Abacaxi, but a good amount of laguanges does call it ananas

In Portugal Portuguese it's Ananás.

I think this is also true in the Spanish dialects spoken in many regions.

> In Spanish is Piña

equally as bold, and also incorrect: ananá is what you'll hear in Argentina, possibly elsewhere.

The Guardian made a helpful infographic a little while back about exactly this: https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2...

That's not true. In my native language it is called "pynappel".

EDIT: I guess that may be why you said "almost" but that, in turn, is almost impossible.

We call pineapple juice 'ananassap' in Dutch and sometimes use it as if it would be an English word as a joke.

Its called "ananas" in Marathi as well. Marathi is a regional language in India.

Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :) The product was designed to make analytics easy. We found that the word Analytics is not easy to pronounce too. So we decided to make the word analytics easy too! But thanks for your comments, we will consider about it.

I think the name and logo are nice (pineapple database right?) but agree that it's both difficult to spell and pronounce (particularly for people who refer to them as "pineapples").

If you want to be cheeky, CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') is available for a .com domain.

Love this CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') idea! ;)

People have same opinion about Azure. Microsoft didn't change it. Ananas is still not that bad.

"Ananas" alone might not be that bad, but "ananasanalytics.com" certainly is.

Bob Loblaw's Law Blog, anyone?

I really loved the name, but there was a bit of disconnect because I thought something named pineapple would lead me to a more exciting, artsy page.

Who said it was made by an English speaker...?

Typical. Smh.

I appreciate the push for tolerance behind your comment, but being snide doesn't help. Please don't on HN.

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