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mbreesetoday at 7:30 PM1 replyview on HN

How much research did you guys do on the name? This might be the most amazing product ever, but I'll never know. I'm not inclined to install anything with the name "X Buddy". For me, it brings the negative associations from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

It's not a knock on anything you've done, because it looks pretty nice. But, just based on the name, I'm not sure I know what it does or why I'd want it. That's a decent amount of inertia to overcome to get someone to install an app on their phone called "browser buddy". It just screams malware to me... but maybe I'm just paranoid.


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alien0006today at 8:07 PM

Yikes! We'd never heard of that.

We picked "Browser Buddy" to name our surfing penguin logo.

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