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Discussion on: I'm Charity Majors, Ask Me Anything! [FINISHED]

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Charity Majors

The first name was bloodhound.sh.. we thought a detective dog would be cute, but it sounded vicious. So we shortened it to hound.sh. But then we got a legal challenge from hound-ci. So the four of us (myself, Christine, Ben, and Toshok) sat down with a lot of beers and tossed out all the ideas we could come up with one night.

The next morning we sat down with coffee and sifted through them for possible contenders. One was trufflepig.io, the other was honeycomb.io. But it was owned by Slack... :(

However, our lovely friends at Slack agreed to sell us the domain (and tossed in hny.co) for just the cost of the lawyer's fees! It was amazingly generous of them, and we are incredibly grateful.

I like honeycomb because of the associations with structured data, sweetness, hard work, and oh yes queen bees. <3

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Yes! All great reasons! That makes a whole lot of sense. That's great that it worked out.

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Ben Halpern

One of the early name ideas for Amazon was relentless.com. Check out what happens when you click that link πŸ™‚

They too found it kind of vicious in the end.

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Charity Majors

OMG. TIL!