Thanks for the response. I didn't think you were the one trying to bury me, but I appreciate the fact that you care.

I'm glad to hear that you are aware of the fact that this is a loaded term and that you intentionally chose it because you wanted an edgy name. While I'm still not a fan of it, I feel much better about it knowing the reason behind the naming. And I think you need to put this info somewhere on the site and the GitHub project. I read gunned.io, and I skimmed the README of your GitHub, and nowhere did you even acknowledge that the name was edge, much less indicate that this was an intentional choice. I would urge you to add a FAQ entry on gundb.io, add a wiki page to your GitHub repo, and put a line somewhere in the README (perhaps at the bottom) linking to that wiki page. Otherwise, you're going to end up with more people than just me thinking that you chose a potentially-offensive name as opposed to a deliberately edgy one.

Speaking of your GitHub repo, you should also add gundb.io as the webpage for the repo, and probably link to it in the README.

For what it's worth, I second the concern. The name probably wouldn't prevent me from using it, if it's the right tool for the job, but I definitely find it distasteful. And it's rather incongruous with the very friendly personality you exhibit in dealing with some pretty pointed criticism in the threads here.

I can just imagine the dialog:

  Me: Hey let's check out Gun for this.

  Team: What's that?

  Me: A distributed cache data store.

  Team: Why's it called Gun? That seems kind of violent. What does that have to do with distributed cache?

  Me: Hell if I know.

Perhaps it would be more effective to choose a name that captures the decentralized aspect of the system?