Ask HN: what do you think of the name Squiry?

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I have been looking for a brandanle domain to launch a service for quite sometime. I picked squiry cause it's short and brandanble, in my opinion.

Would love to hear your take. Also what are some factors you base your decision on when choosing a name?

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Names are hard to choose, but you shouldn't spend too much time on it at the expense of developing your idea.

It's common now to try to make an english-like brand name, but there's an implicit false assumption that everyone will be able to work out a pun-like significance, but that doesn't work in countries where english is not a first language.

Of course that depends on who your target audience is going to be.

For what it's worth, I'm not sure how to pronounce "squiry". I would have guessed "skwer-e", but that sounds unlike most English words I know. Reading this page, maybe "squire-e"? "s-queer-e" (as in s-query)?

It's not even that I couldn't choose between two ways to read it, but that I couldn't come up with one good way to read it.

To me that seems like bad sign.

Often you can have name relate in some direct or indirect what to what the service does, or something unique about it.

If you are playing off '(In)quiry', FYI my first impression was pronouncing more like 'Squirrel', "SQUIR-Y" rather than "S-QUIR-Y".

I agree with this. I saw squiry, but my mind instantly converted it to squirrely. My 2 cents.

Thanks for your feedback. The idea was to go more like (In)quiry

It's fine.

something like "s" "query".

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