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Ask HN: Fun side project - what should I name it?

18 points by peterlai ↗ HN
What should I name a service that archives weekly screenshots of startup homepages?

I've always wanted to study the process of how startups that launch with simple products iterate towards success. I'm sure others share my curiosity.

This is what my app would do: 1. Maintain a list of promising startups. 2. Take weekly screenshots of homepages for these startups. 3. Allow people to browse a gallery of screenshots for each startup that my service tracks.

This service shouldn't be too hard to code up. I've coded up similar services in the past. Nonetheless, I hate starting projects without first naming them.

So, wise readers of Hacker News, what do you think I should name my web app?

Thanks in advance.

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dbingham
Iteration Underway (iterationunderway.net is available)

I like the idea a lot. It would be interesting to see how startup homepages evolve over time. It would also be interesting, where possible, to see other pages. For web applications: screen shots of the application, for non-web based start ups: about page, faq, etc.

minalecs
something to do with landing pages ?
AlexMuir
snaplapse.com
arn
startlapse and sitelapse also available and I kind of like 'em
photon_off
Sitelapse is great!
aw3c2
Absolutely. It feels like a natural choice and is easy to remember: "The service that does timelapses of websites"
moconnor
How about something simple? It's similar to webshots, so how about one of these free domains? startupshots.com startupsnaps.com
happybuy
Some random suggestions (may or may not be available as domains): pivotvision, appsnaps, apparazzi, startupbooth.
user24
aw man, appsnaps.com is taken! That's a great name. appsna.ps is available though.
pmjordan
"upshot" would have a nice double connection to the subject.

.com domain is taken though apparently not used.

Robin_Message
It's owned by Oracle. Any oracle devs on here who want to ask corporate to gift someone a nice domain?

EDIT: Although I doubt they will, since they presumably acquired the upshot.com domain when they bought and killed upshot, a competing startup...

acangiano
Huge corporations don't have a process in place to authorize such a transaction (unless you are offering them some serious money, in which case they will figure out a way).
trizk
startupsnapshot.com is available
revorad
morangutan

glimpset

snappmaster

snapplove

Robin_Message
applapse.com sounds nice to me. It could connote a time lapse recording of an application and isn't registered. I like it.

iterup.com just came to me, is short, easish to say/spell and doesn't resolve.

iterrate.com - with this name, people could rate the designs as they change. Spelling is a bit off, but it's only a fun techie project so it perhaps matters less.

paraschopra
Archive.org already does that for you.

I also had a similar idea of tracking a startup through history (showing everything from historical alexa traffic to google news to tweets to screenshots to blog-mentions). Screenshots alone won't give a lot of information but if you add meta-information to it, you will be able to see the startup's evolution.

tunaslut
hometime would be a great name - but the com is already gone

you could go for an evolution like theme - originofapps

or maybe something like recap(p)

uptown
You should take a look at Perpetually. They presented at TechCrunch 50 in 2009 and have some great technology designed to do something similar to what you've been thinking about, though their focus is enterprise customers, not startups. Worth a look, and their solution may give you some ideas for your own.

http://www.perpetually.com/

fjabre
AddictedToStartups.com
peterlai
How about homepagehotness.com?

Even though it's a bit long, the name makes me smile, and it seems like it may be memorable.

AlexMuir
That's shit. No-one says homepage, and hotness is not something I associate with a webpage.
pmjoyce
Sounds like an interesting service. If you could snapshot their pricing/plans page too, where possible, it could get very interesting.