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Calling a task-oriented service 'Rabbit' seems worrying. Either you're unaware of the existence of TaskRabbit, in which case you haven't done basic market research and don't understand enough about this market to participate, or you know about TaskRabbit but don't understand the concept of trademark, in which case you may be fuzzy about other aspects of intellectual property - which is a red flag when you will be dealing in code, too.

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Because they have "rabbit" in the name, everything they're doing is called into question? Ridiculous.

Try launching an online auction site called "The Bay" and see how long it takes for you to get sued. My guess is hours.

Possibly the worst comparison you could have made.

Umm. How exactly? The original comparison n was Rabbits vs Taskrabbit.

The last person who hired me as a consultant confused Square with Squarespace. The confusion is real, but not as much to us because we deal with keeping track of namespaces every day as programmers.

You're being overly harsh. TaskRabbit is about cleaning and handyman stuff, Rabbit is about programming jobs. Different areas, no chance to get the two confused. And calling a task-oriented service Rabbit, seems common sense, it's a very obvious choice and doesn't imply all the negative stuff you're mentioning.

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