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Post by prawn »

quartz wrote: post #152
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,…

This is a good list! I do disagree with #8 and #9 though... #8: "just another kid among the other 10..." always seemed weird to me. There are tons of notable Peter's, John's, Anne's, and Olivia's in the world. The converse is of course the mistaken idea that a remarkable or unique name makes a remarkable or unique person and at least anecdotally in my life I've seen more young people find difficulty in the attention…

Agree on 9. We have a Fox and a Scout. If they get called Foxy or Scouty, they get politely asked not to early on before it becomes habit. That’s worked without being overbearing.

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

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Post by remram »

hamaluik wrote: post #201
remram wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your sort has a way higher complexity than required, in terms of comparisons. It will present the user with way more pairs than the optimal system would, which will make it very hard to sort through a longer list. You might want to use a merge insertion sort instead. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/53979250/711380 Of course this only works if you assume the order is total, which is actually a good assumption unless m…

Hmm, that is a good idea; thanks. I don't have a CS degree so this is one of those areas where I don't know what I don't know.

On an intuitive level, if I just said I prefer "Alice" to "Anna", and "Anna" to "Mary", it should not ask whether I prefer "Alice" to "Mary".

In practice that seems a little bit difficult and I was hoping someone would jump with the optimal solution.

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

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Post by mtwittman »

hamaluik wrote: post #2

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…

First, congratulations, hamaluik. This especially made me smile because I went through a similar experience - in the early 2000s, inspired by kids’ births I had the itch to evolve the manual process of a 'game' with our extended family—gathering/compiling their guesses at a name and other birth stats.

So I designed a free (and no ads) web app[0] for me and so others could automat their own pools.

It also has “bebe” in the app name :)

Just as an historical point: There were just two other 'baby pool' type web apps on The Internet at the time (2003~2005). One of those two disappeared a few years ago. This was before conventional wisdom would be that facebook integration was a prerequisite for mass audience success for this kind of app. I was never interested in hitching my wagon to FB or any other third party. I’m happy it’s an independent piece of old school web 1.5 / 2.0 that still kicking a decade and a half later. I hope your app has a long life as well.

Anyway, cheers!

[0] https://bebepool.com

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

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Post by learc83 »

When my wife and I were picking names for our son earlier this year, I pulled down a list of the top 1,000 names from the social security office. I removed the top 20, and then we kept making passes removing more names until we were down to the winner.

I called it name whittling. It was surprisingly easy to whittle the list down to 50 names or so.

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Post by jones1618 »

cortesoft wrote: post #162

Haha, I guess this is what every programmer does when they have a kid. I wrote an ELO ranking program when I had my first kid: https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer Give it a list of names, it presents pairs of names to voters who choose which they prefer of the two. Allows many people to work together to narrow down a name choice. I took the site down after a while because I didn't want to keep paying for it after…

I did something similar, although it was a Windows desktop app. Finding and picking names was easy. My wife and I found it hard to rank them so the app (like yours) showed two names (drawn from her list, my list and top 200 popular names) and you'd make a gut choice of favorite. After a few dozen rounds, clear winners would emerge. We could see the top 10 from each of our lists and easily spot overlaps. Since, I've used the same code to decide on vacation destinations and even what house to buy. It avoided a lot of marital disputes, for sure.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Add numerology analysis as a premium feature.

A number can be assigned to every specific letter. You add them up, then again until it's just 1 digit. The digit has a meaning supposedly influencing the person destiny and personal traits a specific way.

I don't mean this is true, but I know many people believe it is (or may be so why not) - I personally met many such people. This way you can attract some extra audience.

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Post by PascalW »

hamaluik wrote: post #25
koolba wrote: post #12

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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.

Ultimately because I wanted an app. * I make enough web-based things for my job, and I enjoy developing in Flutter / Dart (what this was built in). * I’m never realistically going to be looking through names on a desktop; I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line or something where I can pull out my phone, decide on a few names, and then go back to what I was doing. I could build it as an offline web-ap…

Might be nice to deploy the Flutter app on the web too. Flutter web support is pretty decent now. SQLite on the web is probably going to be tricky though (sqflite doesn't support it).
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