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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 hamaluik »

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, etc). So in continuing the tradition of "An app can be a home-cooked meal" [1], I built my own for us to use. You're welcome to use it too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332629

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

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Post by gus_massa »

> Over 110,000 names from over a century of records

Does it do something smart to filter the names? Because showing all of them is too much.

Is there a third option or only heart vs thumb-down?

Is there an option to show variants of spelling? All my children have names with the traditional Spanish spelling [Hi from Argentina!] but here it's somewhat common to use the English or Italian spelling too.

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

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Post by hamaluik »

gus_massa wrote: post #5

> Over 110,000 names from over a century of records Does it do something smart to filter the names? Because showing all of them is too much. Is there a third option or only heart vs thumb-down? Is there an option to show variants of spelling? All my children have names with the traditional Spanish spelling [Hi from Argentina!] but here it's somewhat common to use the English or Italian spelling too.

You can filter names by first letter, sex, and decade of popularity, as well as limit to the most popular N names in that list.

No, only like / dislike. This was intentional for me, another app we tried had a "maybe" list that just filled up with names that I would never realistically go for.

No easy way to show variants of spelling. Not something I needed, but I could definitely see that being helpful for others, and would be a good feature to add.

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

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Post by jedimastert »

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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