I decided on a name during the domain search: mee.contact

After the NFC failure, I knew the next build wasn’t another blank plastic card or continue iOS development.

It was a website. A real link that would simplify the contact exchange and reduce friction when in person with another human.

Which meant I couldn’t hide behind “Contact Share” as a folder name forever. I needed a domain — and, honestly, an app name people could say out loud without sounding like a requirements doc.

So I went hunting. This is that hunt.

The AI idea dump (and why most of it was trash)

I asked Gemini for names based on what I’d already built and the screens I’d shown: personas, hand-off, memory of who you met, less awkward exchange.

It gave me clever stuff:

• Reka — recall + location vibes

• Mentor — moment + mentality

• Nodes — connectivity

• Connect — the classic “put the word connect in it”

I looked at all of them. Domain search on the good-looking ones? Expensive. Squatted. Premium. Or just… not available in a form I’d want to put on a business card.

Creative names are fun until GoDaddy tells you the price of adulthood.

Additional names that were bad:

Following the domains that feel like products

I shifted tactics. Instead of inventing a made-up word and praying .com was cheap, I looked at endings that already feel credible for this category.

I knew .me — personal, lightweight, used for “this is about a person.” Something like a contact-flavored .me felt close.

Then I stumbled on .contact.

That stopped me. A whole TLD that literally says the job. I wondered if anything useful was still free.

I started with me.contact. Unused. Close. Then the registrar (and my own eye for simplicity) nudged toward something within my budget.

Official pick: mee.contact

Short. Memorable. Easy to say. It sounds like the product category without needing a five-syllable brand story.

And most importantly, it was friendly for the wallet.

Why “catchy” isn’t vanity here

• Dot is almost boring — and that’s the point. You hear it once.

• Blinq sells speed in the spelling. Fast share. Done.

I’m not trying to win a poetry contest. I’m trying to name something that matches the product bet: keep the connection, skip the awkward contact exchange. If the name is sticky, the link is stickier — especially when that link has to live on an NFC tag and in someone’s head after a noisy room.

Spending an extra day or two on research — burning through AI lists, rejecting expensive domains, trying TLDs that fit — feels like a waste of time. However, I believe that extra thinking is a part of product marketing. It saves time in explaining the name so I can spend that time explaining the product.

The URL is the product marketing.

What I’m not claiming yet

• Owning the domain ≠ shipping the site. Next up is the boring, important part: getting something live.

Next for the product

I’m focusing on setting up the site — the most basic 1-page product page.

Name research bought me a door. Now I have to build the room behind it.

Recap

I’m Luciano Huapaya. I’m building mee.contact in public — an iOS app to automate the contact hand-off so you can stay present when you meet people.

• Personas for what you share.

• Connections for who you meet.

• Events for where you met them.

The public face of the product is now mee.contact. It’s not on the App Store yet, but this is the journal of getting there.

— Luciano