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Kinesis is already a word and an Amazon product, might have better discoverability naming your project something unique and specific.

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And a band, and a company, and a .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesis

Do you think it's likely someone goes looking for the real-time data processing platform, lands on this GitHub and gets confused?

Discoverability is the degree to which something, especially a piece of content or information, can be found in a search of a file, database, or other information system. Discoverability is a concern in library and information science, many aspects of digital media, software and web development, and in marketing, since products and services cannot be used if people cannot find it or do not understand what it can be used for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverability

> Most search engines support the use of the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT to help end users refine the search query. Boolean operators are for literal searches that allow the user to refine and extend the terms of the search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

Not sure about you, but if I'm trying to find a tool, I don't search just "Houdini", but I'm also an adult who can put two terms together. I linked the above page in hopes that it might help you more efficiently use search engines in the future just like me.

Search engines are so 2010. You just announce "hey genie!" and ask for what you want.

> Do you think it's likely someone goes looking for the real-time data processing platform, lands on this GitHub and gets confused?

No, but I do think it is likely that someone might find this while looking for the kinesis keyboard, a popular product which has been on the market for 34 years.

Amazon was already a word.

Facebook was already a word.

Meta was already a word.

You're right. They would have been much more successful if they had chosen "something unique and specific".

I don't think anybody would take a flight to Brazil to see an Amazon shop and vice versa.

In this specific case though as others pointed out there are already a lot of products on that specific segment with that name.

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