To monday.com's branding and creative team:
I want to flag something that's actively making your product worse at its one job: your name! "Monday" is a day of the week. It has been a day of the week for a very long time. So when I write "I linked it on Monday" in a message, I now have to stop, rewrite it, and clarify that I mean your platform – not yesterday, not a calendar day, not a vague point in the recent past. Every single time. I have this thought every single day, and I needed to share it with your team. This seems to be the only place I can actually do that.
This is a design problem. Product naming is design. And this is bad design, plain + simple. Using a word that already has a universally understood meaning, co-opted for a productivity tool, with 0 consideration for how it lives inside actual human sentences.
Basecamp. Asana. Notion. They work as made up/repurposed words that now mean exactly one thing. "Monday" won't ever be that.
Not looking for discussion – I just needed to get this out, and I genuinely hope someone from Monday's team sees it and makes their eye twitch. Because the frustration this causes is too frequent, it's daily, and it's completely self-inflicted. And massively ironic for a project management/productivity product.