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Comment by jasonkester | Hacker News Reader

Amazing they made it this far with that terrible name. I googled my best attempt to spell it from memory (5 seconds after reading a whole article that mentioned the name a dozen times), and their site didn't show up anywhere in the results.

  - Memorable
  - Spellable
  - Readable over a phone

It's really not rocket science.

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You'd reject the names of many very successful companies on those grounds.

I didn't think it was a winner when it was first suggested. We used it as a working title, and it stuck. It taught me that a company can grow into its name and make it feel very right.

Had someone told me 4 years ago we'd still be using it, and frequently being complimented on it by investors and users, I'd have been amazed too.

When you say that name out loud to somebody who doesn't speak Spanish, it sounds like it should be spelled "audioso". Try Googling that (noticing that you don't show up at all) and then estimate how many potential users you're losing each day.

The standard way around this issue is to register every possible misspelling of your name and repoint it to the site. As an example, try typing tiddla.com or twidla.com into a browser and see where you end up. When I do that for your most obvious misspelling, I see a godaddy parking page. The clear course of action from here is to simply buy the domain and turn all those lost users into customers.

What country are you from? I'm trying to think of an accent that would make it sound like "audioso"...

I wonder if anyone has done a "sounds like" search that takes accents into account.

Shame that "accenture" is already used!

USA. People here pronounce Adios like Audio, but with an S at the end. So the common misspelling is to add that U in the middle.

For what it's worth, I typically pronounce is as 'add e ose', though in hearing you say that, I think that 'ah dee ose' does sound more ... authentic.

'ah dee ose' is the correct pronunciation but I don't think that makes it sound like 'audio' (unless, perhaps, you're from certain places on the east coast).

I quite like the name, and I find it easy to spell though, as I just commented elsewhere, I pronounce adios as 'add e ose', so perhaps that's the cause.

The only minor complaint I have (and whatever you do, don't take it seriously) is that it reminds me of Dora the Explorer.

I think it would be easier if we Americans pronounced "Adidas" like the rest of the world; or if you have experience with Spanish it seems easy to spell. For everyone else, it seems they would just pronounce it "add-ee-oh-so", which would again, be easy to spell.

I had exactly the opposite reaction. It's just adios with an "o." I think it reads and spells fine and (IMHO) it's consistent with the language of the people most likely to use the service. "Alright dudes I'm adioso."

Again it's just my opinion but I rather like the name.

It's almost "hateful" ("odioso") in Spanish

Goes to show - I think that's quite a nice name and easy to spell.

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