How do you come up with a name for your project?

Heya @ktkaushik – if you haven't come across this yet, Igor's naming guide is a great scientific approach to choosing a name for your startup / product / project etc:
https://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide_12.pdf

What I found to work for me is getting some friends/family together and start a brainstorm session.

Start with writing keywords on post it notes and then try to combine or shorten them.

Remember the golden rule of brainstorming: "Never say no or neglect an idea".

Also try not to make it a critical mission. Think of it as an experiment that is doomed to have a result.

Good luck!

This was just posted on Product Hunt: https://namelix.com/

Some practical/pragmatic tips/ideas I use to actually come up with a name.

• describe what your product/service does in one sentence
• list all words separately connected to the subject
• find synonyms for some of the words
• use google translate to see how some words "look" in Spanish, German, Dutch, etc.
• remove a vwel, add a voowel, replace, eg a "s" with a "z".
• combine two (parts) words together.
• check on urban dictionary if words mean something weird.
• check if domain is available, ideally a ".com" with/without words like "get/app/hq".
• rinse and repeat.

For my last project Vynaca "Current and future financial insights into your company". The process looked like this:
"financial forecast" > "finacast" > "vynacast" > "vynaca" > "www.vynaca.com". :)

Check this out: https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2017/10/26/before-naming-your-startup-read-this/

I tend to not worry about the name of things too much. Some people fall into this horrible state of not starting a project until they can find a good name for it.

Just pick a simple name for now and when youve nailed down your project you will probably be in a much better place to come up with a name

-keep it simple, short, easy to spell;

-check in google translate some common languages to avoid names with awkward meanings;

-check if the name is not already a registered brand or trade mark for your class category.
Worldwide: http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en
and in the European Union: https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/welcome

Good luck!

Think about common words, common phrases, the vernacular of your target market. Naming is very much about the imagery of the words.

An exercise: make assumptions from my username / brand name about what I do, company size, formal / informal etc. That's only 2 words but there's a brand image in there. You are basically hijacking the meanings, the connotations from those words so choose carefully.

Do you homework, I would probably have kept looking if I did more homework on "tvCAD", the top Google result is a coronary disease. If it were a more popular term I would probably had ditched it by now.

I am an owner of shareonline.in and i just searched this domain name with the help of https://domainglo.com

Thanks I downloaded it and will look at it a little later! Very much appreciated!

Hey Kaushik, please checkout https://namelix.com/

Most of my projects do what the domain says. I'd think you'd want to stick to that. No point in being on a website with a domain "ieatapples.com" but then you're selling brownies. Before I start a project -- the domain I want must exist in order for me to really get into it. If it doesn't... its rare I'll continue. Occasionally I'll check an IO to see if that could work, or another domain where it could work and is catchy.

alertsforcc.com

The site will send you alerts when a cryptocurrency hits your desired price, not finished yet.

But I used the domain to say what it does.

I have my own name creation tool that scans hundreds of domains for some gold nuggets :)