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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 aptxkid »

koolba wrote: post #12
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…

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.

People have different skill sets. I bet there are engineers out there feeling more comfortable building a mobile app than a webapp.

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

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Post by williamdclt »

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.

Please do whatever the hell you want. There's a difference between asking a question, making a suggestion and shoving ideals down somebody's throat.

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

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

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…

TBH, opt-in statistics would be interesting, so you can say "Most popular baby name of 2021 was...".

Although I guess you'll have a lot of bad data suffering from selection bias, it'll be the most popular name of the parents who used this app and chose to opt-in...

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

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Post by hamaluik »

koolba wrote: post #12
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…

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-app that gets saved to my device but then why not just build an app in the first place?

* I like using SQL for retrieving data, and I don’t want to have to jump through hoops to do so.

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

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Post by lefrancais »

seszett wrote: post #10

Despite the French name for the app, this seems to only use English names.

if you look for french names I've done this dashboard [1] that shows popularity of french names in France from 1900 to today. It is very slow to load, due to database loading and because heroku is free I guess. Github (french) repo is [2]

[1]: https://dash-naissances.herokuapp.com/ [2]: https://github.com/Elie-B/dash-naissances

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