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Comment by triyambakam | Hacker News Reader

How is the name supposed to be pronounced? It looks like the two English words hunt and lie which doesn't sound very nice.

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I also read it as “hunt lie” instead of “hunt lee” FWIW.

Reminds me of expertsexchange.com before they put the hyphen in it (now experts-exchange.com)

Fwiw it parsed to me as 'Hun tile', certainly no better.

If it's meant to be hunt-lee per sibling comment then 'huntly' (with the domain hunt.ly) is by far the established (still-annoying) way to do that.

I think he meant Huntly, but unfortunately, we Indians have our own idiosyncratic way with English. The founder/builder is Indian (I'm Indian, and I know).

Lie for lee though? That would make me read it like लिए / लिये

it is pronounced as hunt-lee

https://www.names-hub.com/name/huntlie

It really isn't though. Any native English speaker is going to see Hunt Lie.

Confirmed. I immediately read “hunt lie.”

In the context of discovering brand-new companies, it does come across as somewhat ironic.

Maybe consider the "Kodak recipe" for an alternative? [1]: "Keep it short, easy to pronounce, and avoid similarities to existing names or associations." (short is harder in 2024 though!)

I'm on the fence on whether the name should have meaning. There are plenty of successful companies on either side.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#Name

Imo better to start with a generic name in the early days at least. Best case your generic name becomes a brand name, ie airbnb.

I am not a native speaker, but the very first thing I saw was "Hunt Lie". It conveyed the message "Product Hunt, but for scam".

"Huntly", maybe?

why not spell it Huntly? like most annoying apps do

What you've linked is a site for human names, not product names.

English has funny cases where readers will implicitly pronounce personal names differently than they might products or brands.

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