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I am not sure if it's everywhere in the world, but in Australia a "Doodle" can often be slang for a penis. With this in mind, I am not sure DoodleCam is a great name unless that's what you were going for.

I was kind of expecting your service to be like chatroulette which also could have been called DoodleCam.



In North America, "doodle" is what people do in their notebooks during boring meetings—draw, that is. So it may be a cultural thing. For their target audience, it's fine.


Mis-naming your app can have benefits. see http://www.macgasm.net/2013/03/27/mans-map-app-blows-up-afte...


I (American) have heard "doodle" used that way occasionally, but it doesn't make me think of that at all without the right context. Here it makes me think of silly drawings.


Never heard of that usage. I'd consider the "rough drawing" meaning of "doodle" very very common.


You don't want to see your doodles tastefully augmented with robots and asteroids?




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