Post #1765233
2026-04-28 07:54 UTC
Replies (5)
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@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io 2026-04-28 08:24
@kevlin Good question! And you remind me of the detective work needed to tie a line on a bank statement via PayPal to an item bought on Ebay*, or to tie any courier delivery message with its purchase, so I can know what's arriving. Every purchase generates at least 6 e-mails that don't obviously belong together. The Ebay seller account doesn't match the physical shop name, which doesn't match the registered business name. *I love everything else about Ebay, getting better stuff from genuine small sellers, a pleasure in complete contrast with the 'evil river' monster Amazon that Cory Doctorow can describe better than I can.
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@dan@axillae.telent.net 2026-04-28 08:46
@kevlin iirc MicroPro eventually renamed their company to Wordstar
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@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com 2026-04-28 10:47
@kevlin Because you aspire to developing multiple products (that you don't want people to remember).
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@gundersen@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 16:48
@kevlin if you call your app "my product-name" then it ends up at M in the morning list of apps, making it difficult to find for anyone looking for product-name.
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@poppis@eliitin-some.fi 2026-04-28 17:01
@kevlin some office locker had an app that was not named after the company nor the locker product. maybe, just maybe android should allow additional keywords for apps