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Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#32Earlier 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.
A static site would remove many of the features that OP built (favourites, matching with partner, sorting).
"Static site" is a bit of a misnomer, it refers to the webserver's view not the clients view. The client can still dynamically request chunks of information, favorite things, sorts things, save things between sessions, and form dynamic connections (though you'd need to point to a 3rd party signaling server for the WebRTC connection to come up).
I.e. it's not the web page that is static rather the files to host the web page are static vs say being a php site dynamically generating responses based on user/session/request information.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#33Earlier 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.
This. Please don't create apps that shouldn't be apps.
But how do you know if it should be an app? It seems like we need a ShouldThisBeAnApp app where you can upload screenshots, descriptions, API diagrams, etc. and allow AI + community input to make the determination.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#34I've always loved the term "baby name". Makes it seem like you grow out of it eventually and have to switch to an adult name like "Roger" or "Raymond".
Haha, I love it! Our first kid was code-named “baby thunder” before being born (we delayed telling some friends so we wouldn’t steal their “baby thunder”). The name stuck around for a couple months after she was born before we trailed off using it, so it really was her “baby name” :p
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#35This 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…
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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#36I've always loved the term "baby name". Makes it seem like you grow out of it eventually and have to switch to an adult name like "Roger" or "Raymond".
That used to be the case in some culture, like the Chinese one.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#37You might want to remove similar characters from your codes to share. For instance, is the first character in your app screenshot a zero or an oh?
Also standardizing on capitals IMO would help.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#38Speaking of names is it really true than in Sweden you have to get a baby name approved by some government office? How strict is that in practice?
It’s sort of true. Strictly speaking, it’s true, but it’s mostly to prevent weird people from naming their kid “X Æ A-12” or “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116” (yes, really).
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#39I did something like this with jupyter and the census records. I added filters for min and max popularity, gender ratio, scrabble score, number of syllables, length, etc.
I love that you implemented scrabble score. Not even legal to play, but fun none the less!
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#40I see that is is Open Source, which is awesome. Would you consider distributing it on fdroid?
Yes! I still haven’t found time to do so for my other app (Time Cop), but I should probably just get my butt in gear and figure it out.