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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 derbOac »

Nice!

I have to admit making a naming app has been on my mind since we had our child. I learned I really love naming and name issues in general, and really got into the name and naming community more than I thought.

I think the reason I never got around to it was I didn't really know where to start, and wrestled with issues around open source versus private data, how to collect the data I needed to do what I wanted, and how to balance data retention against privacy issues. I think I was just thinking of bootstrapping from users but was never sure if that would work or if I could do it another way.

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

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Post by cossatot »

hamaluik wrote: post #134
throwawaygh wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Projects like this one are excellent for scratching an itch or learning a new platform. Low-pressure / "oh well" failure mode, fairly constrained scope, nothing too fancy, but enough of a "product" with utility to push you through the boring parts to the end. It's also interesting how this question shifted over time! It used to be that people would ask why you made a Perl CGI or PHP app when you could've just made a…

Exactly! The development actually languished for many months and I almost scrapped it. Only in the past week or two did I decide to revive it when I once again felt the need for it (9 months go by fast). Thanks!

9 months go by fast

For the father at least...

Congrats!

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

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Post by pjbeam »

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.

Don't use apps you think shouldn't be apps? Making normative statements about something OP did for fun and shared with us is a bit odd.

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

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

wreath wrote: post #131
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".

When I was a child I used to ask my mother what her name was when she was a child too. I just couldn't imagine/believe someone would have that/her name as and be 10 years old at the same time. I don't really like my name and I think adults should be able to choose their names without big hassle. Not choosing where you're born is already too much of a control-giveup haha

This just seems like we’d be fixing a cultural issue with a band aid solution. The reason changing a name is difficult shouldn’t be the bureaucracy, but the fact that you exist in an interpersonal network of individuals indexed by name.

> I think adults should’ve able to choose their name without a big hassle

So my question for you would be: what hassle are you referring to? The cultural norm or the bureaucracy/paperwork?

In either case, what would a solution look like?

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

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Post by hamaluik »

metalforever wrote: post #161

man, why not spend time with your wife during this exciting time instead of this?

We both work from home and literally spend nearly 24 hours a day together. I may have coded it but not in a vacuum; she helped design and test it. Despite having many things in common, we also believe it is healthy to each have hobbies & interests that are separate.

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 #174
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.

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 multiple people are contributing to the same ranking (in that case use ELO).

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

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Post by yreg »

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…

>didn't work for my wife and I (bugs, subscriptions…

Subscription seems like a curious choice of business model for a child naming app.

Congrats on the app.

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

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Post by hamaluik »

aspaviento wrote: post #171
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.

My dad didn't have a middle name. In Canada that caused more problems than anything; forms would constantly be denied / sent back / whatever because whoever processed them would think he forgot to fully fill it out.
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