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by zio99 4950 days ago
+1 Pretty cool. I wanted to work on something similar using synonyms. Also liking the Google Ventures-esque pillow background. And the load on scroll. Care to share your behind-the-scenes with the HN community? Doesn't seem to be using a thesaurus, but rather truncates and elongates words, coupled with jQuery goodness. Am I right?
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thanks for the feedback.

I am using thesaurus + more stuff and basically covering most of the tips suggested here - http://mashable.com/2012/10/04/startup-naming/

things like - synonyms, antonyms, related words, portmanteau, misspellings, phonetic variations, short url, acronyms, suffixes, prefixes

truncating and elongating is also one part.

the idea is to cover all the ways of creating a good brandable name.