Why “willow.camp”

In my last post I forgot to explain the name “willow.camp.” It’s quite simple. We have a very cute dog named Willow and I thought I’d name this cute blogging service after him and “camp” was a great TLD that made me think of setting up camp and reading a good book.

Like a base camp, willow.camp is a good place to stash your stuff. Right now you can stash your writing here. In the future, you can stash bookmarks and RSS feeds.

The Naming Journey

I really wanted willow.blog at first, but .blog was a bit to pricy for a side project. willow.page sounded nice but it was too similar to another great blogging service, pika.page.

I spun the idea around for a while. I even got willow.camp deployed on hatchbox and it was still named willow.blog.

I finally settled on willow.camp because I realized I wanted to make an RSS reader and bookmarking service too, and willow.camp sounded like a nice place to stash things.

So, long story short, willow.camp is named after a cute dog named willow.