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Comment by k-mcgrady | Hacker News Reader

Terrible name, you should definitely change it. It might get you attention and have some shock value at the start but it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't already). Same goes for the logo. I understand it's 'buffer' in French but major companies go out of their way to ensure their product name translates well in the major languages. You should too.

Apart from that, it seems like a good product.

EDIT: Another reason to rename - If I'm on a shared computer I don't want 'tampon' all over the internet history.

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>>it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't already)

It already does.

>>I understand it's 'buffer' in French but major companies go out of their way to ensure their product name translates well in the major languages. You should too.

This product was clearly named with the intention of being provocative. The logo is clear evidence of that.

As stated some place else: it's an open source project, so let's just have fun with names! :)

You have a right to name it what you want. If you have goals related to other people using, forking, improving, etc, then this name will make that harder.

For example, in Showing to HN, you probably wanted some frank feedback. Your name is working against that as all you are getting is discussion of the name. If that's what you wanted -- well, mission accomplished.

As a meta-comment, the obvious should be pointed out: by creating shock value, the name creates discussions, which create upvotes, which drives more traffic to the post hence leads to more feedback.

Call it "growth hacking" if you want, but the name is quite smart in that respect.

I only see evidence of one kind of feedback, which, I hope, was expected, so it's not very useful.

It's not growth hacking if you don't grow something you care about (e.g. users not "naming" discussions).

"Call it 'growth hacking' if you want, but the name is quite smart in that respect."

Traffic != use, in roughly the same way that gawking at an accident != first aid.

Naming is hard, and I appreciate the desire to have fun with a name. It's pretty clear from the responses that this particular joke doesn't work.

Looking past the name, it looks like a well-constructed useful app and you should be proud of it.

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