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[squeakyReaper]

This is... hardly as dramatic as any of the other blugh I throw on here, and may not be up to the par for life advice. But w/e.

I've used Squeaky Reaper as my screen name for a long time. Made it a while ago and it stuck. I'll be starting my own... company type thing? Developing junk for the app store, and I need a good "company" name. I've decided to run with HeyLookFoil, sort of like someone pointing at a shiny thing going "HEY LOOK, FOIL!".

When I go to represent my little product, should I have that company name as my screen name? Put it in my signature? I'm not terribly well known, but sometimes I run in to people who remember me from another site, or I join a game with friends and I can just tell them "SqueakyReaper". What's the best way to preserve my "brand", so to speak, while still having a way to share my company name?

Also, would it be in my best interests to sign up for forums, mostly TigSource, with my "company" name? The solution here is probably just "use the signature feature", but I wanna see if anyone else has run in to a similar thing.

[LordBucket]

Company-name site registrations are completely common. Company facebook and twitter pages, for example. But I suggest applying common sense. It might be a bit backwards to go eagerly rushing to create accounts on all your social forums in the name of a business that at present exists in name only. If you make an account and never post with it, that doesn't really benefit you. But if you're just some random guy making "junk for the appstore" as you put it, making an account somewhere and spamming ads is just going to get you banned. You could possibly make accounts in a company name and use them as your day to day persona, thereby being part of a community as your company name...but if you do that, then anything you say personally in the account name of your company becomes associated with the company. You probably don't want people to associate your business with angry philosophical arguments, for example. You'd want it to be associated with your products. Which means talking about your products...which means having products in the first place and talking about them in a way that doesn't get you banned everywhere.

So, yeah. There are cases where it's probably ok, but ask yourself honestly: is the tigsource community interested in what you do? If so, that's probably fine. If not, don't make a nuisance of yourself. But also keeping in mind the practical issue: do you even have any products, or is this just a thing you've thought of?