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If OP was an actual company, that would be different. But this is quite literally a toy project.
Anyway, congrats OP! Your project looks really cool.
with the added benefit that the software family could be extended in the future with other learning exercises such as a Rust forum engine named Ranta
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I agree that having discussion get consumed by the name is unfortunate and off-topic. It's also predictable, alas (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161041) but we have various tricks to try to dampen it.
Obviously, there are often different services that share the same name, but given that Vanta isn't an actual word in the English language, I would think this might be confusing for people.
As a data point of one, I just assumed Vanta (the company) was doing a Show HN today and was confused at first glance.
Vanta (and the auditors they market) is a nice company I'm happy user of but I'm afraid they won't be too pleased with this.
Your project is a pretty nice overview of what network level monitoring encompasses, I'd say it's more than a tool, it has obvious educational value. Would be sad to see it buried under naming issues.
Did the title of the post change? At first glance the Show HN is a toy wireshark program very far from any Trust Management and compliance
The world is a big place. I bet this kid had no idea that the name was "taken"—either that or they assumed their project was so obviously different that no one would care.
Little did they realize that internet discussions go into seizure about names under all too many conditions.