Ask HN: How to Name ORM for APIs?

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4 years ago

Hey HN, you know that naming things is hard, so I'd like to ask for help. We (WunderGraph: https://wundergraph.com ) have built a tool that can eat up any kind of database (postgres, MySQL, Mongo, etc), grpc, Kafka, etc. and expose it as a unified GraphQL API. Now we've realized there's a lot of appetite to interact with this layer (we call it virtual graph) using just typescript.

So, the end solution is a typescript query builder that allows you to interact with this GraphQL layer. The end user will not really notice that it's GraphQL behind the scenes. It'll just look like an ORM, typesafe, fluent query builder. Like a Uber SDK.

Now to the problem. We usually like to do fun names that play well with Wunder, like WunderBase for the serverless SQLite based database we've built.

Do you have any cool ideas to name this ORM thing? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

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