Onym
Tools and resources for naming things
Onym launched on December 20, 2017 with 175 votes, #151 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
What it does
Tools and resources for naming things, because naming things is hard. But doesn't have to be.
Tools and resources for naming things.
Names, after all, are perhaps the most indelible artifacts of the product creation process. Brands are redesigned with regularity and codebases are continually rewritten and replaced but a name, for better or worse, usually sticks. That’s because a good name is a hook that sets itself into a person’s mind, linking their brain back to your idea – try to reset the hook and you risk losing the connection. The process of naming, then, is the process of neatly packaging up that idea, discovering where it begins and ends so it can be linked as a discrete, easily remembered concept. A good name can help a company or product become successful, of course, but it can also help the lowliest code…from guide.onym.co
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