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

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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, et…

Great app, however I'm not sure "pink for girls, blue for boys" should be the only colour combination. After all, just less than a hundred years ago the colours were reversed.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My daughter was almost named “to be determined”. We went out for lunch one day and this woman at a table beside us was talking about her granddaughter. Her granddaughter sounded like a great kid and when she (finally) said her granddaughter’s name, my partner and I gave each other a look. That was the name… I wish your app had existed then - it would have been easier than the grand email list o’ names we shared with…

You can't leave us hanging after a story like that :)

Lauren is five years old now. She started kindergarten in September. She loves numbers, math, reading, learning French and space. She is an absolutely wonderful little person, she is the love of my life and it is truly an honour being her dad.

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

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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, 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…

Problem validation is a brilliant idea.

Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.

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

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My dad said to me "don't give your boy one of those trendy new names, stick to something traditionally English" so I called him Æthelbert.

I hope you spell it Æþelbriht like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Entry_for_827_in_the_Angl...
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