Has anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?
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
#42This would also work well as a pet or animal name generator. You could apply many more filters (Species -> breed -> colour -> gender)
My SO and I acquired some new pets during covid for added company and we scoured through websites that were pretty plain, simply names as a list in bullet form. Your app is more fun, interactive, and memorable of an activity. People appreciate that!
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#43This 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.
"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".
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#44I 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.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#45You 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.
I considered it and maybe I still should, but ultimately I found when sending the sharing code I would just copy / paste it rather than type it in so for my needs it is fine. Wouldn’t be very much work at all though so I should probably just stop being lazy!
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#46This 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 on both the baby and the launch of the app!
There's actually a need-gap for 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' posted on my problem validation platform[1].
Although I'm not sure how the uniqueness metric could be added to app, You're welcomed to post Nom de Bébé there in the comments to reach out to those who need it.
Edit: Since the main goal of a unique name seems to be email id, social media handle etc. Measuring availability of those from the selected name is actually possible.
[1] https://needgap.com/problems/259-suggest-unique-pronounceabl...
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No more apps! Only websites!
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#48Congratulations! :)
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#49I'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".
In a way - perhaps? If someone doesn't like their name they can change it when they reach adulthood (at least in the US)
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#50This 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. [1] https://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1332494.htm
Obvious question: who had the lower app id?