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i feel like a good business idea would be showing new product names / logos to a group of 50 people from various demographics and ages to see if the name clashes with something else.

bc this one quite quite funny

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This project predates the song i assume you're referring to by 2 or 3 years

It made me think of the old wireless application protocol stuff - WAP. I did create a site in WML around 2002 but all i remember is a <card> structure.

I worked with some guys who released one of the first mobile online games over WAP (it was a spin on wumpus hunt)

There's some... apps on this server

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In all seriousness, I don't think there is much overlap in people who know about Wapp and those who know about WAP.

I suspect you're wrong. :-)

Well, all these people commenting know both. I have a feeling a majority of people who know about Wapp know WAP, just because of the latter’s overall popularity.

I don't think it would be hard to imagine people would be aware of an VERY RECENT INCREDIBLY POPULAR song.

Just because you like web shit doesn't mean you are completely disconnected from the greater culture.

I am the developer of Wapp. I gather (from other comments) that the name "Wapp" collides with a recent pop song by someone named "Cardi B" - please correct me if I have misunderstood. For the record:

  *  I do not follow or participate in pop culture.
  *  I do not listen to pop music, ever.
  *  I do not know who Cardi B is.

Any similarity in the name of the Wapp software framework and music by the individual or group known as "Cardi B" is purely coincidental.

Yes, Cardi B is a female singer who is popular these days (as in, she's on the radio). WAP the song name is an abbreviation that refers to female genitalia.

That people associate "Wapp" with a sexually suggestive pop song name instead of "app" or "web app" might say more about them than anything inherent from the project name...

I don't cook, I don't clean

but let me tell you how I got this app running

Tcl on the web; That's a Wapp

Yeah, imagine the name of your product sounding like the Western Australia Party!

I'm sure pretty much every word clashes with something and is "quite funny" at some point in time, and that's not even considering other idioms.

Better just call it whatever you find OK at the time ( minus the legal stuff ).

Btw, having a framework called Wet Ass PussPuss -> (,)++ for short it's pretty cool.

I went to a PTA meeting once and they were playing "OPP" while everyone's kindergarten age children danced to it. My wife and I were pretty sure we were the only ones that knew the lyrics.

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