man, why not spend time with your wife during this exciting time instead of this?
Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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#162Haha, I guess this is what every programmer does when they have a kid. I wrote an ELO ranking program when I had my first kid: https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer
Give it a list of names, it presents pairs of names to voters who choose which they prefer of the two. Allows many people to work together to narrow down a name choice.
I took the site down after a while because I didn't want to keep paying for it after both my kids were born.
It worked ok, although the app basically just confirmed that we had clear favorites for our names.
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#163We had a problem (many years ago!) choosing a name all the various relatives could pronounce (between the two sides of the family there were half a dozen languages and no one person spoke them all). We had to throw away phonemes that not everyone could say and ended up with a single syllable name that everybody could at least pronounce one way or another.
Another is “is this name a rude or funny word in one of these other languages?”
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#164Brilliant! Congratulations to you and your wife
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#165Congratulations! App looks great, and as someone who's looking forward to meeting our first little one in a few weeks, wish you and the wife all the best on your own journey.
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#166I'm unable to share on Android version 12 of a pixel 4a
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#167Wish there was an option for "I'm not sure, show me this name again some other time"
My feelings on this is that if you're not sure, that's actually an immediate dislike.
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#168My wife is also pregnant and this is the first baby-name app I don't hate.
Congrats! And thanks!
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#169We 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,…
Kind of wish I had done a google search before choosing Kayodé for my online persona.
Kayode (no accent) is from Africa. I’m white. Oops. Also Lycaon is short for Lycaon pictus… African Wild Dog. Double oops on the first name.
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#1702 months too late. We went with our default / backup