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mehulkar on Oct 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Name your Company

Heroku could mean '6 farts'[1] You'd have to open up something other than a book of Japanese plant names to come up with that :p

[1]http://www.quora.com/What-does-Heroku-mean/answer/Matt-Van-H...

tptacek on Oct 22, 2012 [–]

It's funny; first Google search result:

http://koi-z-are-us.20m.com/japanese_plant_names.htm

... and most of these are viable company names.

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