What is Feelibri?

Today I will try to tell you some more about the Feelibri name.

I will start by telling you where our name comes from. When I first started thinking about Feelibri I referred to it as ‘Leesrobot’, the Dutch word for ‘Readrobot’. We still refer to the project as ‘Leesrobot’ but only internally.

The site is going to be all about speed and being versatile. If we would have wanted to keep the name like ‘Leesrobot’ this would mean that we had to register every domainname in every language (for example okumarobotu.tr) which would be a costly operation for a fresh upstart and would also give us problems with the already registered domainnames.

We decided we would not go on with the ‘Leesrobot’-name and look for something else. We also decided to make a profile of the website and what message we wanted to convey. Small, lightweight, fast were the technical keywords and fun, playfull and fierce were the more emotional keywords. We also wanted to do something with the animal kingdom so we started out looking for something fast, fun, beautifull, lightweight and a bit fierce. We ended up with the colibri (or hummingbird).

Colibri is the same word in almost every language around the world. It’s a small lightweight and superfast bird which a lot of people also find adorable.

The name colibri (or kolibri) on itself did not stand out enough, so we went for trying to combine it with one of our core points of interest, feeds. We ended up with two possibilities, feelibri and kolifeed. We opted for the first one as it gives us more possibilities and is a bit softer on the tongue.