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connors / photon

The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS
photonkit.com
MIT License
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Project name confusion #36

Closed zsup closed 9 years ago

zsup commented 9 years ago

Hey @connors,

This project looks awesome and super useful - we've built an application with Electron and I can see how helpful this framework will be. That said, I'm wondering if I could convince you to change the name.

Backstory - I run a company called Particle; we make open source hardware development kits for IoT (used to be called Spark). Our latest development kit is called the Photon, and it's pretty popular; if you google 'Photon' we're the first result after the Wikipedia page on Photons. Our IDE, Particle Dev, is on Github's list of projects built with Electron: http://electron.atom.io/

I worry that the name you've selected for this project will create confusion; although the projects do different things, they're both development tools. I'm wondering if I can convince you to change the name while the project is still young?

Thanks for considering!

zsup commented 9 years ago

Ah, well, since I originally wrote this, you guys have climbed the Google ranks; good on you :-) Regardless, I hope you'll be understanding of my request.

developit commented 9 years ago

Suggestion: positron Other suggestion: graciously link to Particle's Photon in the readme?

connors commented 9 years ago

Yeah names are hard. Obviously, you see why we went with Photon and how it relates to Electron. Considering your company name is Particle and not Photon, I'm personally not too worried about the confusion. I'd be willing to reconsider if it becomes a bigger issue.