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Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.

Yes, it's a reference to notices posted onto lampposts. A lot of people said they loved the name.

I did wonder how well it would travel, whether or not people from outside the UK stuck notices on lampposts, if they called them lampposts etc.

Here in North America, these sorts of signs are attached to any pole that can handle them, but powerline poles are favourites because they're wood (and therefore staple-friendly). Toronto has community posting boards that have started going up (put up by our beneficent advertisers, Astral Media, who would love to get out of that obligation and just advertise more).

Thanks for the info

While a name like Circle has obvious and immediate meaning to everyone who sees it, I guess?

I haven't really discovered that many connections between start up names and their purpose.

You know. How people post local notices on a lamp post? For like, missing cats. You see it often on college campuses.

Maybe it could have been called cafecorkboard.com like the other post here, or telephonepolenotes.com

LampNote initially started life as a hackday project using data provided by Manchester City Council. The data available for the hackday included planning notices which, in the UK, are still publicised by sticking pieces of paper onto lampposts.

Maybe it's an easier correlation to someone in the UK?

As a Mancunian, not at all. The name means nothing to me on the surface!

The race to register something more understandable like cafecorkboard.com in 3.. 2..1..

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