Name Geniuses
A pay-what-you-want crowdsourcing business name service.
Name Geniuses launched on March 22, 2016 with 87 votes, #610 of 4,409 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
Here is a new grassroots system for holding elections on video that is totally incorruptible, and totally believable. It’s also self-organizing, so the people can hold elections at any time, without government involvement. Democracy really needs a backup system like this, where a majority of the people assembles in the streets, and votes-out their entire elected government and un-elected bureaucracy all at once. And isn’t this unquestionably a right of free people everywhere ? All voters attach a home-printed paper-ballot to their chest. These chest ballots will have name, ID info, and who or what they are voting for. Each voting district, or “Nome” of 250 voters will walk in two…from andrewmelcher.com
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- ILI'll help you name your next startup/product for $502011 · startupgods.com · ▲98
Hey HN. This is a weekend project of mine. It's an idea I had after seeing so many comments here about the lack of available .com names for startups. As PG once said: "Take a luxury and make it into a commodity"[1]. So, I decided I'd try turning name consulting from something only large corporations could afford to something anyone could. I hope you'll take me up on it :) If you'd like to see a few examples of my work, just check out the links in the footer. Thanks for your attention. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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