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Time to get a better name. The name is the friction remaining that stops me from adopting this.

Ya. Bit of a shame. It’s OP’s choice of course and I get that it’s kitschy or whatever but I think he’s leaving money on the table as a commercial product.

If it were actually funny I think I’d feel different, but ironically calling a native mac app ‘exe’ just feels like a bad punchline that’s not going to land with anyone who understands the value proposition of the app in the first place.

there is open contest for different name. mind to chime in?

Personally I think dropping the exe and just calling it notepad is the obvious low-hanging fruit. I like the nostalgic aesthetic—it’s refreshing in this age of cookie-cutter tailwindcss splash pages, but exe is just quite confusing.

Notepad++ is already taken. that's sad

Or ‘notepad.app’ would quite clearly convey that it is an editor in the spirit of notepad but for macOS.

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