Yesterday I went to an event to help demo my friend’s website. Its a site for collaborating with friends and family regarding naming a new puppy. Really! Its a very targeted audience, but, if you or a friend actually needs to name a puppy, I think its a lot of fun. Or if you have oodles of time at work to look at cute puppy photos, you can name a stranger’s puppy.
The site is at: http://namemypuppy.net/
Seeing as I’ve been doing quality assurance for software for years now, I can honestly say that I like this site, its clean, very usable and gets the job done. You can upload a photo of your pup, give it a description and then send it out to friends for voting. People can vote on names, suggest a new name and browse other dogs to name or puppies that have been recently named.
A lot of people wanted to know the revenue model for this idea or whether there would be a namemykitten.net or even namemykid.net
But, I think my friend just did this as a side project for when he wanted to name his own puppy (who happens to be the poster dog for the site). For now, its just fun. If it gets a bunch of users, I’m sure there is money somewhere.

