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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 tempestn »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #278

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…

Counter-point: some people may think this is BS to the extent that they'd give the app a pass after seeing that in the feature list.

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

tempestn wrote: post #281
qwerty456127 wrote: post #278

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…

Counter-point: some people may think this is BS to the extent that they'd give the app a pass after seeing that in the feature list.

Perhaps. A/B testing probably is necessary. I would try and some way emphasize the numerology part is just a game, entirely optional and doesn't interfere with the actual job the app does - suggesting names.

Another, a more rational extra feature I can think of is providing a clue on how easy it is going to be for speakers of different languages to pronounce the name or to spell it in their alphabet.

Some clue on the etymological meaning/history of the name and history of some notable people named this way, etymological counterparts in other languages, some fun facts like "how do you spell it in tengwar", statistical data on where and when was the name popular, cultural data like if it sounds close to some specific word in some specific language etc should probably also be there.

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

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Post by epage »

mynameisash wrote: post #128

There's something about picking the names for your kids that is just so fun and special. For those of you for whom this app may be relevant, I hope you have even half as much fun as my wife and I did picking names. Ever since my wife was little, she had a particular name chosen for her son. So when we got pregnant, we already knew what the boy name would be. But we had fun coming up with a girl name, and that fun was…

Girl names are been relatively fun but boy names have been a challenge. The options feel limited if you want one that isn't overdone but isn't ... strange.

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

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Post by epage »

hamaluik wrote: post #34
disintegore wrote: post #26

I'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".

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

Ours was Stardust, tying into part of their name that is a constellation name.

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

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Post by epage »

vmception wrote: post #255
mosfets wrote: post #224

When the baby is finally old enough and ask "Dad/Mom, why did you name me as xxx?", and you answer "oh, it's from that app the dude on HN wrote.", imagine how would he/she feel XD

a) lie b) maybe that will be common enough by then c) does that really come up a lot? I don't think I ever asked why and don't think I would require a profound answer. I guess maybe if it wasn't a name that blended in I would have more questions and thoughts about it.

> does that really come up a lot?

I have. My middle name is both obscure in its sound and more obscure in its spelling.

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

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Post by henrikschroder »

jl6 wrote: post #229
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes.

Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.

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

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Post by milesvp »

I too wrote code to help with picking baby names with each of my children. Popular but not too popular was a hard requirement when bisecting the SSN data base.

One hard thing was not realizing how many variants there were of the name we picked for my daughter. We ended up picking a more popular name than we sort of intended.

Naming twins was also extra hard because of the added requirement that the 2 names were of similar “stature” (or “coolness” or something hard to define).

Congrats.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

henrikschroder wrote: post #286
jl6 wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.

> It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes.

Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.

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