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

#261

What, has everyone forgotten the legendary babynamewizard.com? It was one of the few java applets that succeeded. Seems to be still kicking, probably rewritten in javascript. https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=&sw=both&exact...

Nobody cares about stuff that’s good on hacker news, they want some new bullshit that will allow themselves to compete to attach themselves to a revenue stream to enable them to get into Elizabeth Holmes country club. Babynamewizard is a pretty good example.

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

#265
Very nice app. A few suggestions after using it a bit:

Remove names: Unknown, Unnamed, Unk and Unborn (Some of these have dupes with typos)

Add an option to not show twice names that are unisex, they should show only once but maybe with a multi colored card. This is useful for two things: 1. actually looking for unisex names (or avoiding them - a filter?), so you don't need to keep in mind or search on both sexes 2. Reduce the amount of total names to review

Also something to help reduce yet more variations, an option to group similar or very close related names together. Ex. I saw Ulisses then Ulysses then Uulisses and so on.

And lastly, a way to sort by popularity, so that I can review the less (or most) popular first.

Anyway, great app and congratulations for the baby.

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

#267

My baby naming days are long in my past. I have two daughters of 14 and 12. Their names where a real challenge. My wife and I lost our first child. It would have been a boy. We had chosen for the name Roan. We where of course devastated. A part of me was also very sad for loosing the name. If the second would also be a boy we could no longer give it this beautiful name. We knew the second would become a girl and we w…

My wife and I also lost our first, who was a boy at 23 weeks. It was an awful experience to say the least

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

#268
Flutter! Love it. I feel like Flutter today is like what Go was like in 2011. Its basically right on the cusp of being recognized as being the best programming tool for a specific use case. In Go's case it was making back-end services. In Flutter's case its building 2D client experiences (I say 2D, because I think Unity will probably have an edge in creating 3D experiences for a while).

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

#270

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Haha, I love it! Our first kid was code-named “baby thunder” before being born (we delayed telling some friends so we wouldn’t steal their “baby thunder”). The name stuck around for a couple months after she was born before we trailed off using it, so it really was her “baby name” :p

We did a similar thing. Early on, our toddler proposed the name Bin-ban for his upcoming sister, and it stuck. We have a lovely video of the toddler explaining to Grannie a few hours after the birth 'her name is Bin-ban'. 'Oh , yes, but she has a real name'. We called her Bin-ban for a few more weeks until she sort of grew into her 'real' name. That beautiful little original name is a very fond memory for us.

Our son proposed “Caterpillar Pop” for his looming sister which I always liked. “Mustard” was the codename for another unborn child (my sister’s, I think).
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