alt Hacker NewsPeople trying to market things create a lot of new terms. They don't want to seem like they're selling the same old thing, but something new and innovative.
Occasionally, the new term is warranted, of course, but that's far less common than simply trying to appear different.
> Crud app
> Slaps cryptocurrency sticker in 2019-2021 era
Gets 1 million $ funding
> in 2025, slaps AI powered sticker
Gets 10 million $ funding.
But its still a crud app nonetheless.
I know it sounds really over the line example but I am sure that there are examples like this where the same thing gets some new terms and it gets a lot of funding that is, there is an incentive to put on new stickers.
The goal is not to appear different, the goal is probably profit, which they can get if they can get better funding I suppose, and they get better funding by slapping stickers.