I'm shocked that YC hasn't advised them that this name is terrible. It actively breaks trust by trying to piggyback on Anthropic's tool naming.

Move fast and break things. Being edgy like this is what VC's want to see.

Grab Claudet and Claudette quick!

Lots of apps named after the Whisper model (including mine - https://whispermemos.com/)

I wonder if I'll have to rename at some point.

If you're adding another word, it sounds more differentiated than Claude to Claudia. I was among the many who thought this was an official product from the makers of Claude. It's like if your product was called Whisperer.

More than that, the peer comments would support trademark issues

Wow, I thought it was an official app. Now I wonder what telemetry or even conversation data I have just sent offsite.

As others have said, this is a giant red flag.

I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies.

I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.

I also made the assumption. Once I found out it wasn't it was a huge red flag. I don't like it at all.

Agreed - I was about to send this round to my colleagues.

For once reading the comments first has paid off!

This is exactly why trademarks exist, and why if they want to bother, Anthropic can 100% make them change the name.

Same reason you can't release a handheld console called the Gamegirl, or a voice assistant called Alexis.

Once Anthropic starts receiving a wave of support tickets they would be forced to change their name, CLAUDia is just a misspelled ClaudAi

Oh wow. I thought it was anthropic even after skimming the site. The color scheme and styling is pretty similar. That feels a little slimy.

Same here, first thing I did was to scroll down to see company in the footer and nope... somebody will be receiving legal letters soon I'd guess.

Same. But of course, I checked the GitHub first, and I really dislike this confusion. I don't trust someone with my AI tools that's acting like they are trying to trick me into giving them sensitive access. Nope.

How will they make money?

Hosted version… like every oss project…

It’s a desktop app.

many desktop apps have hosted versions

I can’t think of any free desktop app that would have a non-free hosted version.

AGPL suggests you are correct

Step 1: Manufacture a bunch of low-quality "good enough" codebases

Step 2: Turn around and sell security-as-a-service to the most profitable products

It seems to be a side-gig to bring attention to their company. Well done.