[Scott_MacGregor]

Seriously, I think you guys should pick another name.

PG has worked very hard to build his brand with YCombinator. A lot of people benefit from it financially and otherwise. Naming your startup BCombinator, seems to me like naming a startup NewMicrosoft or 2Google.

If you guys have a good idea, come up with unique name for it, and work to build your own brand. Then if you hit it big, your own brand will not be diluted.

[mahmud]

How ironic. While the Y combinator is a primitive, and necessary for the implementation of recursion. The B Combinator is technically an inessential function that can be derived from the more primitive S and K combinators.

[tetha]

True, but almost everyone who is not into combinator calculus is just going to see:

YCombinator. BCombinator. Wait. They are not associated despite just a single letter difference?

It is a similar problem as with ESL, ESL-Radio and ESL-TV. Sounds like they are an esports league, a radio reporting about an esports league, and a video streaming site about that esports-league? well... wrong. ESL-Radio has almost nothing to do with ESl and ESL-TV and is a video streaming site about ESports, while ESL-Tv streams some subset of the Esports league ESL, and the ESL is a big esports league.

So... please value distinct names to save us all a bunch of confusion.

[tbrooks]

If you guys have a good idea, come up with unique name for it

It appears that's what they are doing if you read the whole post:

Since the app doesn't have a name yet, B Combinator will have to do until there is something more official.