triyambakam 2 days ago

How is the name supposed to be pronounced? It looks like the two English words hunt and lie which doesn't sound very nice.

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codazoda 2 days ago

I also read it as “hunt lie” instead of “hunt lee” FWIW.

makk 2 days ago

Reminds me of expertsexchange.com before they put the hyphen in it (now experts-exchange.com)

OJFord 2 days ago

Fwiw it parsed to me as 'Hun tile', certainly no better.

If it's meant to be hunt-lee per sibling comment then 'huntly' (with the domain hunt.ly) is by far the established (still-annoying) way to do that.

Brajeshwar 2 days ago

I think he meant Huntly, but unfortunately, we Indians have our own idiosyncratic way with English. The founder/builder is Indian (I'm Indian, and I know).

OJFord 1 day ago

Lie for lee though? That would make me read it like लिए / लिये

heyarviind2 2 days ago

it is pronounced as hunt-lee

https://www.names-hub.com/name/huntlie

trollied 2 days ago

It really isn't though. Any native English speaker is going to see Hunt Lie.

stared 2 days ago

I am not a native speaker, but the very first thing I saw was "Hunt Lie". It conveyed the message "Product Hunt, but for scam".

"Huntly", maybe?

cabinguy 2 days ago

Confirmed. I immediately read “hunt lie.”

emmanueloga_ 2 days ago

In the context of discovering brand-new companies, it does come across as somewhat ironic.

Maybe consider the "Kodak recipe" for an alternative? [1]: "Keep it short, easy to pronounce, and avoid similarities to existing names or associations." (short is harder in 2024 though!)

I'm on the fence on whether the name should have meaning. There are plenty of successful companies on either side.

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#Name

willsmith72 2 days ago

Imo better to start with a generic name in the early days at least. Best case your generic name becomes a brand name, ie airbnb.

joenot443 1 day ago

What you've linked is a site for human names, not product names.

English has funny cases where readers will implicitly pronounce personal names differently than they might products or brands.

hackernewds 2 days ago

why not spell it Huntly? like most annoying apps do