[Perignon]

It's not bikeshedding. Who the fuck wants to work for a company called Cockroach Labs? Seriously, sure your tech friends and recruiters might appreciate it on your resume but anyone outside of tech? Applying for an apartment, mortgage, car, lol good luck. And also not too sure that anyone outside the immediate tech/startup nerd scene would appreciate it other.

That aside why the hell do I want to thing of cockroaches day in and day out when I am using their product? Seriously, is this someone's idea of a bad joke?

The name has got to go.

[dijit]

Nobody is going to give a flying fuck what your company is named on a mortgage application.

Honestly there are companies with _much_ worse names in active use like "Dick & Daughters"[0] or "Ismail ANUS"[1] who even got an appointment to the queen.

Seriously, it's bikeshedding, and the point of the DB is that you don't think about it all day.

I also don't think of women called Cassandra when I use the database of the same name. Bikeshedding. Seriously.

[0] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08610385

[1] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/5-sFnEsibrDnUR2-...

[floatboth]

Just one Dick, not "Dicks", and you posted the same link twice :D

[dijit]

oops, thanks for pointing that out.

[Perignon]

Dick & Daughters or Ismael ANUS are definitely not more vile then Cockroach. The former are names rooted in tradition, not some idea of a an arrogant hipster joke. To call a company Cockroach is fucken arrogance. Plain and Simple.

[dijit]

Cockroach is just a creature. How is it arrogance. It reeks of arrogance to call yourself "Lionhead" or "Jaguar" or "Oracle". Some form of apex predator or all-knowing entity.

Also "Is Male Anus" is not rooted in tradition at all.

[p4lindromica]

"Who the fuck wants to put their bikes in a magenta shed?"