[rathel]

Kind of tangential, but even here on HN you can see how awkward people get with naming their projects/products. Either "stealing" an already established name from a completely different field or something so generic it's hardly searchable on the interwebs.

[ghayes]

I don’t believe most start-up get “stolen,” there’s just a limited set of words and many are in use in different fields. Plus trademark expressly allows different marks by industry. A recent example here was a screen share app sharing the name with “screen,” the Unix tool. But shouldn’t that be okay? Most people won’t be confused between the two.

[rathel]

Apparently it didn't take long for an example to appear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725529

Based on name you'd think this library is for fuzzing? No, it's for fuzzy string matching. A "y" at the end would have disambiguated that.

Well, maybe not entirely, because there's still fuzzy logic, but that' 2 possibilities down from 3.

[tomc1985]

That, or the name is some trainwreck of letters that vaguely resembles a word