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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.
No more apps! Only websites!
I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.
https://mixedname.com/
I'm continually shocked at how many solutions there are in this whole baby-naming space. I think there's something so personal about it that especially drives people to do it for themselves.
I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.
That's a great idea! Though I think it would take an awful lot of data-munging to get there. Friends of ours struggled with this exact thing, but with English & French.
Henry (Henri), Michael (Michel), Oliver (Olivier), Julian (Jules), Anton (Antoine), Bernard (Benoit, ou seulment Bernard), Dominic (Dominique), Alexander (Alexandre), even William. The really French names, though, are going to be pretty rough if it's a dominantly English speaking enviro. It's rare to come across an English speaker named Guy or Guillame.
Speaking 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?
In Iceland, I believe one can’t give the baby a last name not following the -son or -dottir format even if the parents are not Icelandic I believe. Atleast it was the case until few years back. Not sure it changed recently or they need to go through an approval process.
I 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.
My wife and I have a game to spell out things with baby name initials (our last name starts with a T, which helps). We aren't tied to the idea, but it's sort of like an improv game, where constraints get the ideas flowing. We've learned a fair bit about what each of us do and don't like in a game
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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.
Ultimately because I wanted an app. * I make enough web-based things for my job, and I enjoy developing in Flutter / Dart (what this was built in). * I’m never realistically going to be looking through names on a desktop; I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line or something where I can pull out my phone, decide on a few names, and then go back to what I was doing. I could build it as an offline web-ap…
You could track whether specific locations, or time of day/week, result in liking certain types of names. Version 2.
congrats, maybe you can use qr-code scanning for linking instead of sharing code ?