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Because it gives you absolutely no idea what the product actually does, and it's un-googleable. Try googling novocaine - guess what, you won't find this in the first page of results. Good luck with it. I'm sure it may be one awesome piece of software, but the name is just dumb.


> Try googling novocaine - guess what, you won't find this in the first page of results. Good luck with it. I'm sure it may be one awesome piece of software, but the name is just dumb.

A lot of web projects are "un-googleable", especially when they are first kicking off. Django would be a good example of this—searching for "Django" would often return results about Django Reinhardt, a jazz musician, instead of the web framework.

I think it's a fair assumption to say that an interested programmer might think to append github[1] or audio[2] to their search, in which case the result is in the top 3.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=novocaine+github [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=novocaine+audio


I'm thinking TotallyUnofficialNewExcitingSimpleAudioKit -- TUNESAK.


I googled "novocaine audio ios" and got great results.

I also assumed it was an Eels reference, which I found catchy and means I will remember it in the future.


Actually even "novocaine audio" is enough to lucky-land on the github page.




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