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Show HN: Brandsketcher – Free startup name brainstorming service

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Some years ago there was a site called NameThis by klustr where people could request names for specific things for money and have users submit suggestions, then voting on them. The winning users would get some nice money. Sadly there was a lot of cheating going on and very bad communication from the company. They went offline after a fairly short time.

I loved it, it was a mixture of puns, wordplay and general creativity. Got my first overseas pay check for it (or was it a filled credit card? It was a bit weird and complicated...). Still remember my winning suggestion and I hope the.company uses it, it was purrfect.

I am not convinced this isn't some kind of innovative lead generation method or an ingenious scheme to collect lots of juicy juicy business ideas. Could at least put your name on there so people know who they're dealing with ;)

Haha, luckily its all about execution. Ideas are easy. Its more to help those ideas get a push into the right direction. A name shouldnt hold great ideas back. Thats where i try to be of service.

Yeah, esp. love the "Would you possibly need a logo design later?" part of your questionnaire. That seems incredibly relevant to choosing a good name for a company. (Not intending to troll you though, hats off to a clever lead generation strategy!)

Looking forward hearing back, nice idea. Hopefully you'll also get some design work out of it too!

This service is a great idea, I personally can never come up with a name.

Tnx, I'd love to see how this experiment evolves. Feel free to submit your pitch.

I'm one of those people who has a journal of 15 executable ideas at one given time.

The problem is that if I'm unable to find a name I'm attached to, I won't work on it.

I can imagine.

I am the same way. It's such a strange need - like the product cannot exist, even in my imagination, until it is named properly.

Too funny. I work with a lot of clients who get hung up on finding the perfect name before they can get going on their project. My advice is to come up with a "working name" you can live with — don't over think it, you can always change it later. Names you think are stupid at first often mature in your mind as you're working on the product...you'd be surprised how often a working name grows on a client and becomes the name of the product.

It's depressing to think of the number of products I've worked on where the "temporary code name" that was supposed to be "so bad we'll HAVE to change it before launch" just stuck around like an incurable disease.

This looks fun - nice idea.

Submitted my one =), looking forward to what you come up with!

Why are you doing this?

Cool, submitted!

oh look now your ideas are all for sale!

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