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?
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
#12This 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…
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.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#13Despite the French name for the app, this seems to only use English names.
US-census names actually.
As for the name of the app.. well names are hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#14This 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…
Congratulations! We had our first in June.
Long before I considered having a child, I built the first baby names app for iPhone with my buddy Dave. [1]
Believe it or not, we had a beef going with another app developer over who truly had the first / best baby names app. App game has been competitive since the get.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#15Speaking 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?
Not sure about Sweden, but in Iceland there's a naming committee that has to approve names not already on the approved list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee
It does look like there's a similar thing in Sweden though
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#16This 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…
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.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#17Speaking 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.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#18This 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…
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).
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#19Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#20This 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…
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.
I assume that the app keeps track of names that you've already rejected.