{"id":187,"date":"2006-09-14T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/187\/adjective-noun-software"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:29:17","slug":"adjective-noun-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/187\/adjective-noun-software","title":{"rendered":"Adjective Noun Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/184\/the-road-less-traveled\">last post<\/a>, I talked about the series of events that have led to my running my own company. But getting there is only half the battle. Once you&#8217;ve decided to venture out on your own, you have to come up with a name for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/proculo.de\/\">Alex Repty<\/a> recently observed that a large number of Mac software companies are named using the formula &#8220;Adjective Noun.&#8221; I think it&#8217;s probably a trend that transcends the Mac community, but I can&#8217;t help but agree there are lots of us around. <a href=\"http:\/\/redshed.net\/\">Red Shed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/toxicsoftware.com\/blog\/\">Toxic Software<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martian.com\/\">Martian Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogueamoeba.com\/\">Rogue Amoeba<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious-monster.com\/\">Delicious Monster<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/\">Flying Meat<\/a> all come to mind within a few moments of pondering. Others come close but diverge just barely from the pattern. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/\">Foggy Creek Software<\/a>?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo what is the ambitious new business-person to do? Need some help figuring out what to call your stunning new venture? Allow me to lend a hand&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><script LANGUAGE=\"JavaScript\" SRC=\"https:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/downloads\/companyFun.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><form>\n<input type=\"button\" value=\"Choose Your New Company Name\" onclick=\"insertNewName()\"\/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:2em; background-color:#DDDDDD; color:blue; margin:10px; padding:8px;\">\n<span id=\"companyNameText\">Adjective Noun Software<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;\" id=\"domRegister\">(Register this domain name cheaply at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?116511\">DreamHost<\/a>&#8230;)<\/div>\n<p>\nNow that you&#8217;ve got motivation and a name, all that&#8217;s left is the work. Get moving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I talked about the series of events that have led to my running my own company. But getting there is only half the battle. Once you&#8217;ve decided to venture out on your own, you have to come up with a name for yourself. Alex Repty recently observed that a large number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33,15,19,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humor","category-programming","category-technology","category-uncategorized","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}