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I'm working on a simple messaging app. The basic idea is to allow people to send short prefab messages to each other. Kind of like the "Yo" app but with (a little) more flexibility. It's supposed to be a lighthearted fun app but my partners and I have been arguing about the name so I figured I'd toss it up here and see what sticks. The current top contenders are: "Partytime" and "bokbok" (possibly with a cartoon chicken as the mascot) Alternate spellings, capitalizations etc. are all on the table. Tell me what you think about these names. Do you like one better than the other? What do these names make you think of? (particularly in the context of the app as described) Do you have a better name?
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Feb 23, 2015 21:56
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weinerchop
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Feb 23, 2015 22:00
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I like bokbok, especially with a chicken. It just sounds better to a person who has no marketing experience (me). Neither really describe what your app does, and partytime evokes images that don't really make me think of a messaging app, so in a way that's worse than bokbok which doesn't evoke any images at all.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:01
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I feel like if there is an app named bokbok with a picture of a chicken, and it's only like .99, probably a lot of people are gonna buy it just based on that alone, regardless of what it actually does. but I mean it has to be a pretty good picture of a chicken. choose your chicken well. edit: thinking about it, an app called bokbok with a picture of a chicken, where the whole app is just a button you press to make the "bokbok" sound, would be better and more successful than the actual app you have planned, so do that instead. Maybe with a premium version you get a better variety of "bokbok" sounds including the  as well
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Feb 23, 2015 22:16
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bokbok is a cool name. Keep the functionality simple. Focus on the UI. Yik Yak has 75 million in funding because of the cute spinning yak animation when you refresh your feed.
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Feb 23, 2015 22:42
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Would you be willing to share an example or two of the prefab messages? Is it like candy hearts type things (UR HOT) or catchphrases or something? I'm having a hard time thinking of something I would want to send someone over an app versus a text message, unless the messages or delivery themselves are really cute or funny. Yo is funny because it's dumb enough to be funny. If there was a chicken on my screen bokking a message at me, would it be like "you're my prized hen" and chicken related stuff? Or just "did you know the biggest ball of twine is in Minnesota?" Bok Bok! Obviously my vote is for BokBok. It sounds cuter and more fun than Partytime. I would want to look at it and see what it does. With the latter I would feel like it would be a map to all the frat houses hosting parties that night.
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Feb 24, 2015 09:25
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The turkish word for poo poo is bok. Keep that in mind
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Feb 24, 2015 10:58
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gently caress da Mods posted:weinerchop I couldn't get my partners to go for it. But it's not a terrible idea. This app would give you an convenient way to send someone an animation of a hotdog getting chopped in half by a clever.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:07
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Koivunen posted:Would you be willing to share an example or two of the prefab messages? Is it like candy hearts type things (UR HOT) or catchphrases or something? I'm having a hard time thinking of something I would want to send someone over an app versus a text message, unless the messages or delivery themselves are really cute or funny. Messages would be a short animation (like a few seconds on a loop) and some sound. Examples might be thing like a bobbing chicken and a bokbok sound. Or a caveman eating a chicken leg with a sound that say "chowtime". If I can come up with a good one we'll probably do some sort of SA related one but if we get to the point where it's about to start taking off I'll probably open it up as a contest or something. We're thinking of it along the lines of animated memes but shrunk down so they fit on mobile devices.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:28
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Partytime really doesn't sound like a simple messaging app for me. More like something I'd see in my spam email folder.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:31
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Aix posted:The turkish word for poo poo is bok. Keep that in mind Interesting. What sort of connotation does it have? Is it more clinical? Is it more like saying that something is bad? Or is it more like saying "Oh no!". Would it be something that turkish people would be embarrassed to hear/say or is it the kind of thing you say when you're trying to be a badass? Or would it make people laugh? Does doubling it have any particular connotation?
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Feb 24, 2015 15:32
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Thanks for all the advice so far. It's easy for my partners and me to get a bit of tunnel vision on stuff like names and it's great to have a fresh perspective.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:40
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I'd probably buy an app called bokbok with a heavy chicken theme. Look how well Talking Tom Cat did. Different application obviously, but people love to spend money on funny animals. And the chicken is up near the top of the funny animal list.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:02
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SeventhUncle posted:Interesting. It is really is the same as the english word poo poo. So you would be calling your app "shitshit"
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Feb 24, 2015 19:56
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Go whole hog and just call it "shitshit"
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Feb 24, 2015 20:34
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Aix posted:The turkish word for poo poo is bok. Keep that in mind I vote for bokbok EDIT: bukbuk? buk is also some kind of russian missile. So... make the logo a chicken strapped to a missile or something
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Feb 24, 2015 20:38
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SwissCM posted:I vote for bokbok That's a spelling I've considered too. Also bawkbawk. But I like the 3 letter versions better for the sake of simplicity and lazy spelling.
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Feb 25, 2015 01:34
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It's also easier to look at than bawkbawk
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Feb 25, 2015 01:56
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SeventhUncle posted:The current top contenders are: Who came up with this because they should be fired
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Feb 25, 2015 03:30
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I like bokbok but only if the icon art was a cute chicken yelling at me 
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Feb 25, 2015 19:41
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Are you going to have premade video memes? I'm thinking like 3 second videos like Nerds! from Revenge of the Nerds or D'oh! from Simpsons that people would enjoy using. Like forum posting but in real phone life.
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Feb 25, 2015 20:08
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Bokbok for sure. Do they even have smartphones in Turkey?
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Feb 25, 2015 21:03
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Kritzkrieg Kop posted:Are you going to have premade video memes? I'm thinking like 3 second videos like Nerds! from Revenge of the Nerds or D'oh! from Simpsons that people would enjoy using. Like forum posting but in real phone life. We weren't thinking of those two in particular but that's the basic idea.
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Feb 25, 2015 23:42
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Chatslap, With an animated talking hand instead of a chicken. Maybe a baby hand.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:40
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What about balkbalk instead, you could really corner the baseball market. BalkBalk
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Feb 26, 2015 00:52
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Astonishing Wang posted:Chatslap, With an animated talking hand instead of a chicken. Maybe a baby hand. The name is pretty cool but it's not really a chat app. I'm going to keep that in mind if we do end up doing a chat app in the future though.
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Feb 27, 2015 03:49
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brb, buying up all domains related to bokbok.
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Feb 27, 2015 06:41
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Astonishing Wang posted:Chatslap, With an animated talking hand instead of a chicken. Maybe a baby hand. I'm going to keep that in mind if we do end up doing a chat app in the future though. Damnit. I don't know how that happened. I'm gonna go ahead and blame Windows. SeventhUncle fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 07:22
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You should make an app to repost the same message to the forums every few hours. : Seriously, how did you manage a double-post with a multiple hour gap?
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Feb 27, 2015 18:52
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surc posted:brb, buying up all domains related to bokbok. diiiiiick....
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Feb 27, 2015 18:53
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Google'd BokBok, this was the 5th result http://www.bokbokapp.com/
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Feb 27, 2015 19:12
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go with cluckr imo I liked "bokbok" a lot, but if there's already an app with that name, it's probably wise to pick a different one. Moo, oink, bark, woof, and gobble lend themselves to cute animal icons. Plus gay guys say "woof" and "oink" (but definitely not bark) to compliment each other, because we are gross. A couple of different guys I've hooked up with had all kinds of weird, innocuous pig paraphernalia in their houses. My boyfriend's ex's facebook last name is "Muttz," and basically all his friends have weird doggy variations on their names. I hooked up with a guy who legally changed his name to Wolfer. I've been on large, popular gay hookup sites where the equivalent to a wink was an "oink" or a "woof." If you want to go "golly gee why is our app so popular with all these promiscuous gay guys," I'd go with some variation on woof or oink.
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Feb 27, 2015 22:33
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kidhash posted:Google'd BokBok, this was the 5th result Yeah. I saw that. In theory we're different enough that it doesn't matter.
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Feb 27, 2015 23:00
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it is posted:go with cluckr imo I've never heard anyone (gay or otherwise) say any of those things as a compliment. Is this part of some super secret language that gay guys keep on the DL around straight guys? Are you going to get in trouble for telling me? On a more serious note, why not "bark"? At the very least we're gonna have to add those as messages. Is there a particular image or animation that would go with "woof" or "oink" if you were going to use it as a compliment? Would a silly cartoon dog/pig work?
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Feb 28, 2015 00:15
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SeventhUncle posted:I've never heard anyone (gay or otherwise) say any of those things as a compliment. Haha it's just ~*~gayworld~*~ I wouldn't worry about it. "Bark" just isn't a word that means that, really. It would be like if someone tried to say "you're overheating" when they meant "you're hot." It's a synonym that doesn't mean the same thing in that context. Also nah, just a cute cartoon pig or dog would work. I feel like a pig going "oink" is a much stronger signal than a dog going "woof," but that may be regional/whatever.
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Feb 28, 2015 01:59
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Coffee Wolf posted:What about balkbalk instead, you could really corner the baseball market. My brain initially read this as "ballsack." FWIW.
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Mar 1, 2015 02:31
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Koivunen posted:My brain initially read this as "ballsack." FWIW. Could be a Grindr companion app I guess.
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Mar 1, 2015 17:15
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can you write a message or do you just send meaningless little pictures instead of having a real conversation? It sounds sorta useless.
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Mar 3, 2015 04:57
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zVxTeflon posted:
Probably these guys: 
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Mar 3, 2015 20:18
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Nierbo posted:... It sounds sorta useless. Then everything is going according to plan.
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