Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

This is an interesting project but a poorly chosen name because it can easily be considered trademark infringement for being confusingly-similar to "Redis", especially since it's a self-admitted clone. I would change it now before you are forced to change your name and you lose time confusing people and wasting time renaming everything.

I don't think it's particularly confusing. I wouldn't expect something official to have a name that changes the first letter. Would you honestly be confused about whether a search engine called Boogle, a laptop called a Yacbook, or a browser called Tirefox was an official product by Google, Apple, or Mozilla?

i think “$proj - implements the redis protocol” are going to be as ubiquitous as the things which claim to be “S3 compatible”

idk if redis labs (the organization aka big bad) are going to patent the “protocol” to disallow clones (or they’d be going after valkey first)

I’d see it in swift and then being called "Swedish" for giggles.

Naming is famously difficult in this world!