I recently released some software and it took considerable effort to name. After the public announcement, I learned there was a preexisting project with the same name. Since my software isn't at v1, I'm back to the drawing board. It is a CLI so my criteria is:
- It has to be short enough to type comfortably.
- It has to have a domain available.
- I have to feel an affinity for it.
That last point is fuzziest. How do other people name software?
👤 stop50 Accepted Answer ✓
I name it depending on the need this software solves. I usually don't care about more absrract names.
One software i use has an name which is the polish word for hickup. It for comparing files for removing duplicates.
👤 zzo38computer
Sometimes it is difficult. Sometimes I have had various ways of doing so, but sometimes I don't know. (They say, naming things is the most difficult thing in computers.)
(At this time, I have an unnamed operating system design.)