I guess people already have told you but if not let me enlighten you with a fun fact:
In Austria, “Wappler” means idiot. And especially in the upper regions of this small country, this word is being used many many times.
So there already were a few instances, where I told people about this great program and tried to enthuse them but wasn’t really able to because of the name!
Just imagine I went up to you and said to you: “Since a few weeks I’m using this great software which is called idiot and it enables me to produce high quality dynamic webapps! And the cool thing is, idiot costs me just about 35€ a month!”
And then I’d try to name a few advantages of idiot and what makes idiot stand out as opposed to other web app builders.
I think you got the idea
My highly technical approach to this problem is to transform the word to something that sounds like “Wobbler”. Still silly I know
We met some Austrian guys last year when we introduced Wappler at the websummit in Portugal - and they were pretty amused as well but as explained that it’s ok and also the meaning is only in Austria and more specific around Vienna
So it’s all good - we are not called WIx that have much bigger problem in Germany
These things happen in a globalized world, which create even more ‘difficult situations’. For example there is a famous Spanish football player called ‘Munitis’. In Greek, this means ‘her p***y’ (yeah imagine all the embarrassment when the speaker had to call his name when he had the ball ) What happened is that many of them (speakers) were calling him by his first name ‘Pedro’.
The worst that I have seen regarding Wappler’s name is that many arrogant ‘Super Pros’ programmers just call all of us idiots, retarded for using a software called idiot. Let them haters be haters and let’s just focus on all the good things we can produce with Wappler which make all those super Pros feel very uncomfortable.
Just to add to the discussion from the other side of the pond, the Urban Dictionary (a crowdsourced collection of slang words on the Internet) defines Wappler as " a bad ass kid that is awesome at everything he does and bitches [flock] to him like [birds]. Most likely a god on the water. otherwise known as " [wap]. You’ll have to let us know if this defines @Teodor or @patrick ?
Pajero means ‘wanker’ or ‘excessive masturbator’ in Spanish. I learned that in a marketing course about branding, It must be difficult to sell a car called ‘wanker’ to the Spanish speaking public.
. Still, the cuss is known in the whole country.
Ha, ha thats funny.