Which name feels more like a project management tool?

1 points by Eden-W 9 hours ago

Hi HN,

We're rebranding an open-source project management tool and stuck between three possible names. I'd love to get your opinion on which one sounds most like a trustworthy, serious PM app — just based on name alone.

The options are:

- ZenTao - Sanplex - Bugfree

Some context: ZenTao is the current name (https://www.zentao.pm/), Sanplex is a new invented name, and Bugfree is our original name from a decade ago — which we recently reacquired.

What’s your gut feeling? Which one would you be more likely to click on, or trust as a PM tool? No marketing here, just honestly curious how these land with people who work in tech/product.

Thanks!

ben_w 8 hours ago

"Bugfree".

The problem with "ZenTao" is that it's too close to a game (Zendo), Buddhism, and New Age hippies.

The problem with "Sanplex" is it reads like it came from an algorithm for permuting English sylables to produce things that sound almost like they might be brands if it's not your first language, like all the suspicious vendors on Amazon for the last few years: https://youtu.be/nQpxAvjD_30?si=Cxz18SU0UmiLdKLE

The other problem with "Sanplex" is every fourth time I read it, my inner monologue vocalises "Spandex" instead.