Comments on: This hellish tech startup trafficking in souls needs a name

Question: This hellish tech startup trafficking in souls needs a name

subject_verb_remainder — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:17:35 -0800

Halloween Filter: Help me with a name and tagline(s) for my 'business' of getting people to sign over their soul to eternal damnation. Tech startup parodies most welcome.

On Halloween I'm playing the devil going around with a contract trying to get people to sign over their souls, with lots of business jargon in my 'pitch'. I'll also have business cards and similar advertising material.

But I'm totally at a loss for the name of my company.

It should be obvious that it's hell or souls oriented. I'm really tempted to go for a tech startup parody (faustr?). A billion favorites if anyone can give me a good variation on "Zynga" or "Activision", but definitely not limited to that.

Ideas?

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:30:54 -0800

"Faustr" is brilliant.

By: hurdy gurdy girl

hurdy gurdy girl — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:32:09 -0800

"Hadesbook is a social utility that connects people with the other damned souls who are burning in the fiery pits of hell! You can see how your friends are being tormented, post unlimited photos and video of your own and others' suffering, and learn more about the minor demons you meet.

"Stay connected with other damned souls! Sign up here: it's not free and never will be."

By: milqman

milqman — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:33:56 -0800

hellBnB

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:39:53 -0800

Pinterestinpeace

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:40:22 -0800

InstaDamn

By: uhom

uhom — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:40:50 -0800

Faustr is good but I've made note of many, many startups here in the bay area using names ending in -ly. I suppose it's just cute. And it's appropriate in this day and age of cute and playful startup peddling games and social networking stuff and apps and apps. Many of these -ly startups have similar website design and offer various services and apps I either don't need or understand. I vote for Faustly then.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:41:18 -0800

Soul Combinator. "I'm not claiming that every soul has to go to hell to be burned with eternal fire, just that all other things being equal, the more souls are concentrated in one place, the better the burning will go."

"The soul combinator is one of the coolest ideas in metaphysics."

By: benzenedream

benzenedream — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:42:06 -0800

EAAAH

BurnIn

Roastify

9Circles

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:44:45 -0800

"Faustr" is brilliant.

Along similar lines, Damnr
StyxLife
Charonland
Disist

By: roger ackroyd

roger ackroyd — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:45:01 -0800

Damnazon.com

edit: you can offer the Damnazon Kindle, Damnazon Fire, Damnazon Prime...

By: windykites

windykites — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:03:42 -0800

Faustr is great on paper, but if you actually speak the word out loud, people probably won't pick up on it, especially if it's Hallowe'en and loud and rowdy and people aren't exactly thinking about literature/opera/etc. I think something more obvious like damnazon (nice one!) would probably be easier for most people to "get" right away.

(Or maybe I'm a little slow, it took me a really, really long time to figure out what site you were doing a parody of because i never use Flickr).

Fiendbook
Lockedin

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:05:12 -0800

AOHell (old school)

By: Etrigan

Etrigan — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:12:28 -0800

Pets.com

Just... because.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:12:59 -0800

Professor Malebranche's Soul Emporium and Discount Tanning Salon.

By: bz

bz — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:13:50 -0800

Damnazon... I love that.

By: argonauta

argonauta — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:24:00 -0800

By: Wretch729

Wretch729 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:33:14 -0800

This search string might help. Several of these BS generators are great.

As for the name many names for the devil are variations on light or brightness (referring to the pre-fall role). Is that too subtle?

"Here at MorningStar we strive to achieve scalable dominance in disintermediating current heuristics!"

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:36:39 -0800

Lucifr

By: roger ackroyd

roger ackroyd — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:41:49 -0800

Sorry to keep harping on this but — you should know that Damnazon.com's CEO is Jeff Beelzebub.

By: Little Orphan Ennui

Little Orphan Ennui — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:14:10 -0800

www.soulbook.com
Gargoyle (in the Google font and color scheme)

By: eruonna

eruonna — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:14:44 -0800

Faustr is good but I've made note of many, many startups here in the bay area using names ending in -ly. I suppose it's just cute. And it's appropriate in this day and age of cute and playful startup peddling games and social networking stuff and apps and apps. Many of these -ly startups have similar website design and offer various services and apps I either don't need or understand. I vote for Faustly then.

Mephistoph.ly

By: subject_verb_remainder

subject_verb_remainder — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:41:32 -0800

I don't know if anyone can top damnazon. It's catchy, rolls right off the tongue, has name recognition, a great logo to modify, and I can use their lingo to talk about selling goods and services.

Still open to other ideas! Thanks so far for the help.

By: a halcyon day

a halcyon day — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:56:51 -0800

You can probably work a pointy tail in place of the arrow/smile easily, as well.

By: MexicanYenta

MexicanYenta — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:37:09 -0800

Souls R Us

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:28:19 -0800

Helliburton would be good but unlike Faustr, Hadesbook and Damnazon, it doesn't come with a logo and font and I think those will really make this sing.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:30:23 -0800

You can probably work a pointy tail in place of the arrow/smile easily, as well.

Or a pitchfork.

By: BrianJ

BrianJ — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:36:58 -0800

In lieu of listing my real place of employment on my Facebook page, I've stated that I work for "Beelzebub Industries" as the Chief Furnace Stoker.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:02:03 -0800

If you don't mind existing companies, go with Soulseek.