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fsckboy on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam

I was just idly thinking "a name like kapwing should be easy to get a domain name for, i wonder where they got the name?", so I looked it up in wiktionary.

Not sure if this is the origin, but wiktionary lists it as "(rare) the sound of a bullet richochet"... KA-PWING!

is this how the company name is pronounced?

jenthoven on July 13, 2022 [–]

[This is Julia, the OC] We've got you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUvcWjFkFs

Also check out our blog post about the name :) https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-chose-an-onomatopoeia/

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