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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by inasio »

I also wrote code when we had a baby (babies actually...), but with a different set of constraints. Me and my partner are from different countries, and we live in a third one, each with its own language, so we wanted to find names that "sounded" ok on all three languages (english, french, and spanish).

My algorithm finds roots that are common on all three languages, and suggested a few options. For fun I added where in the decimals of pi it could be found, closest prime number, that kind of thing...

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by pawelmurias »

dragonwriter wrote: post #288
henrikschroder wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.

> It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.

In some countries if you have a weird name people it means that you are either a foreigner or you parents are complete morons. Some names strongly imply the later.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

hamaluik wrote: post #2

This 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…

I commend you for the effort.

Any chance this will be included in the Fdroid marketplace?

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by Tempest1981 »

wohfab wrote: post #100
Tempest1981 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line You could track whether specific locations, or time of day/week, result in liking certain types of names. Version 2.

They could also stand with their decision, to stick it to all the user apps, that track you to oblivion ;)

It is possible to collect information, use it locally, and not upload it to a server.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by Talanes »

dragonwriter wrote: post #288
henrikschroder wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.

> It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.

Yeah, it's more that unique names are more likely to carry class markers (for any class) than common names, because common names are... common.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by tacitusarc »

hamaluik wrote: post #2

This 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…

Hi, this is awesome! As a heads up, my partner is on Android and the sharing function does not seem to work. Even so, this app is great. Thank you for sharing.
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