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I always thought that too, and the official capitalization appears to be Potopea everywhere. But it has a performance test tool called PeaMark, which has me questioning my assumption.


I thought it was "Pea" in the sense that the site is a small .js codebase. Now I'm very curious of the lore...are all 3 of us wrong?


Ivan answered this in one of his AMAs on Reddit[1] a couple of years ago. He used "Pea" because "Apple" was already taken.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_a_free_...




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