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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 aspaviento »

regus wrote: post #135

We recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want,…

> 3. If you are going to give them a middle name...

Just don't do it. Nobody is going to use it and it will mess up when you have to fill forms.

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

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Post by Argher »

hamaluik wrote: post #6
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, an…

Love the app, seems nicely functional - as feedback/bug report?, it doesn't look like the "Sex" filter works, at least not for the "Explore" mode.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

thatwasunusual wrote: post #16
koolba wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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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 »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #151

We just had our second a few weeks ago, and to figure out some names, we each got a big list of "kind of like this name," totally casual and noncommittal, and combined them. We then used a little Elo[1] rater script I whipped up to compare items, it was fun! Once you get a short list there's no good algorithm to figure it out, but using Elo we both found names we loved that we never would have thought about, and had…

Congrats! Elo rating is a good idea for sorting.. I just implemented an insertion sort to help rank names which works but also feels a bit awkward.

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

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Post by hamaluik »

quartz wrote: post #154

When we were hunting for baby names I found that fiction character naming books (ex: The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook) were really great for inspiration. They tend to focus on the perceived qualities of the names more than the social qualities and are often more bold in their offerings.

That's a really clever idea, and would probably give us the types of names we're looking for (not common but everyone knows it and knows how to spell & pronounce it).

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

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Post by donkarma »

regus wrote: post #135

We recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want,…

On the contrary I would not mind if my child was named after a controversial figure due to the fact it would obscure people trying to find them

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

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Post by hamaluik »

antihero wrote: post #123

This looks lush. One request - a filter for genderless names would be amazing. I have no idea what my kids will want to identify as so having something gender neutral seems like a gift.

That's a good idea and should be fairly easy to add. You can currently disable the colour-based gendering of the app if desired but your suggestion would be a lot more useful.
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