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Ask HN: What do you think of when you hear Webrupt?

1 points by stefanneculai ↗ HN
I'm looking for a startup name for a new venture and trying to figure out the best option. What do you think of the first time when you hear Webrupt? What would you expect a company named like this to do?

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arthurcolle
I would expect it to be a web company that goes bankrupt within a few months
ThrowawayR2
While I don't mean this unkindly, it appears to be a combination of "web" and "rupt" which immediately puts me in mind of of the words "bankrupt" and "abrupt" as well as other words containing or ending in "rupt", most of which have slightly negative connotations stemming from its Latin origin meaning "to break".
arthurcolle
Yeah, this was what it sounded like to me as well - not even trying to be snarky.
allears
While "disrupt" may be a positive buzzword to techies and venture capitalists, to the consumer it signifies, well, disruption. That is, things stop working. Somebody is making a lot of money by breaking things. Somebody is imposing themselves as a middleman and raking off a lot of dough. Definitely not a good look.