Hi! Founder here…thanks for the feedback, deeply appreciate it. Especially the last bit about how hard naming is haha.
To give a bit of context on the name, our first set of use cases was all about test engineers using this tool to testbeds for end to end or large scale integration tests.
Since we are pretty mathy ourselves, we called it “Kurtosis” because we imagined the distribution of errors arising from service to service interactions to have a high Kurtosis - in the sense that there’s a lot of errors you wouldn’t “expect” to happen from a first principles understanding of each component. You’d have put them all together to see those, they’d be “far off the mean”. There’s also a lot of stuff about how we view our work, where we like exposing ourselves to outlier opportunities that we hadn’t previously imagined to produce results that would only happen in a “high Kurtosis results distribution”.
Now that being said, I definitely hear what you’re saying. It’s not obvious that’s where the name came from…and just because we were thinking that when we named it doesn’t mean it resonates with our users the same way!
That feedback came straight from my basal ganglia.
Though I'm guessing that was a pretty expensive domain name. So in lieu of changing it, on this issue I can be bought off.
But I will accept a bribe in the form of a medium sized T-Shirt to not make fun of you further. The T-Shirt must include an anthropomorphized gaussian curve in a math meme format and the curve-person must be clearly labeled as being name, "Kurt Osis."
Any Kurtosis logo must be either non-existent or super non-prominent so that I can at least pretend that it's a meme and then maybe tail into where it came from. A huge emblazoned Kurtosis logo on the back or front will be unacceptable (although Kurt Osis could have that logo on his or her or their shirt).
It's not too late to rebrand with the cute platypus idea.