Ha, awesome. I went through the exact same thing of getting a bit stuck on names and trying to solve it algorithmically. My approach was using very simple Bayesian classifier to try and find sounds and spellings you liked.
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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why an app rather than a static site deployed to something free like GitHub pages? Could even have the data in a repo to accept pull requests for new names.
"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".
Because you can already `shuf -n 1 /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx` (or mnames for male ones) or `vis-menu /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx >> momlikednames.list`, and `cat {mom,dad}likednames.list | sort | uniq -d` to find names both parents like.
`shuf /usr/share/dict/words` was how I picked my HN username.
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#143This will be our second kid, and at least for us figuring out a name that we both love is hard. There are literally tons of baby-name apps out there, most of them more fully-featured and polished than Nom de Bébé and you should probably use one of those. However a lot of them include a disturbing amount of tracking or for any number of reasons just didn't work for my wife and I (bugs, subscriptions, lack of names, et…
Like others have said: great job. Usually there is a tradeoff of functional, aesthetics, and open source/no tracking where we only get 2 of the 3.
EZ 5-star review for me.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#144One thing that would be cool is to see the name with initials (given family name/middle name) and also to check social media/email accounts and even domain names to see if you can get a unique handle for them based on a few variations ;) Those would make a great gift when they join the internet one day.
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#145We recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want,…
The impact of the name on the child/teen/adult is often overlooked. Great to see you've considered the negatives, especially how the name/initials could be used against them.
> The impact of the name on the child/teen/adult is often overlooked.
And confusing!
Having my name as a kid was horrible! I was constantly harassed and made fun of for it.
As an adult, it rocks! Close enough to other names to be familiar, but different enough to be memorable.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#146We recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want,…
If you choose a common name and your kid has an allergy or something, I guarantee you will pick him up from day care and he'll be eating snacks brought by the parent of one of the other children with the same first name.
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#147This is fantastic, wish I had it before we had our fourth and final child. One piece of feedback: when I use the app with my thumb, the natural position for it to rest is right over the name. Consider moving the name more towards the center or top of the screen and making it possible to swipe anywhere in the top yellow area.
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#148This will be our second kid, and at least for us figuring out a name that we both love is hard. There are literally tons of baby-name apps out there, most of them more fully-featured and polished than Nom de Bébé and you should probably use one of those. However a lot of them include a disturbing amount of tracking or for any number of reasons just didn't work for my wife and I (bugs, subscriptions, lack of names, et…
feature requests -
- initials with full name, in various orders (country differences), and
- full name with given name, to see how it reads, sounds, feels.
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#149I made one of these for Yahoo! Health in 2000. Naturally it was not an app. Good idea!
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#150Very cool. My only gripe with the UI is that when opening the popularity graph of a name, using the Android system-wide back button does not close the popularity graph. That would be handy.