When the clean handle is gone, a prefix is usually the least damaging fix. Not all of them cost the same.
The reliable ones
- use — reads as a product. Works best for software and tools. usewhisperlook.
- get — reads as a purchase. Good for physical products, slightly salesy for services.
- try — reads as an invitation. Best when there's a free tier to try.
The ones with a catch
- hello — warm, widely used, and now common enough that it can read as a template.
- join — implies a community or a waitlist. Wrong if you're neither.
- my — reads as consumer software from about 2009.
- the — occasionally perfect, usually just longer.
Suffixes, briefly
app, hq and online all work and all say something. app dates you to a platform. hq says company rather than product. online mostly says the good one was taken.
The test
Say the full thing out loud in a sentence: "you can find us at ___". If you find yourself explaining the prefix, pick another one.