Pathological but productive.
lol, that describes me a little too well..
Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#82did you know that ... >In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law requires you to register a birth within 42 days (GOV.UK, 2019a). In Scotland, a birth needs to be registered within 21 days We couldn't think of a name that we both liked and went well over the 42 days to register the name, we got a court order around 120 days. Jokingly I said to my partner you're the one that'll be going to court not me. She repl…
>In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law requires you to register a birth within 42 days (GOV.UK, 2019a). In Scotland, a birth needs to be registered within 21 days
My parents would have been in jail.
They were both Old World immigrants and very traditional (though, from different countries). So I wasn't named until I was almost a year old.
Also I didn't have a haircut until after 1yo, supposedly a cultural tradition. Didn't wear pants until I was 2yo, again supposed to be a cultural thing.
Here's the one that blows a lot of young people's minds: I didn't have a Social Security number until I was 17. And the only reason I got one was so I could get a passport.
These days you can't function, even as a child, without a Social Security number. Back then, you were still considered a human being and an American citizen even if you weren't constantly enumerated, tabulated, and tracked.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
But how do you know if it should be an app? It seems like we need a ShouldThisBeAnApp app where you can upload screenshots, descriptions, API diagrams, etc. and allow AI + community input to make the determination.
No more apps! Only websites!
We'll see how this comment ages, in the VR meta future
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#84Earlier 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.
A static site would remove many of the features that OP built (favourites, matching with partner, sorting).
You could do everything but collaboration using a static site and localStorage though Apple's support of localStorage is iffy now.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#85> Over 110,000 names from over a century of records Does it do something smart to filter the names? Because showing all of them is too much. Is there a third option or only heart vs thumb-down? Is there an option to show variants of spelling? All my children have names with the traditional Spanish spelling [Hi from Argentina!] but here it's somewhat common to use the English or Italian spelling too.
You can filter names by first letter, sex, and decade of popularity, as well as limit to the most popular N names in that list. No, only like / dislike. This was intentional for me, another app we tried had a "maybe" list that just filled up with names that I would never realistically go for. No easy way to show variants of spelling. Not something I needed, but I could definitely see that being helpful for others, an…
Would be interesting if you could filter to include / exclude similar sounding names / syllables.
When we had our kid, I had to come up with names and my wife would try to "break them"(think of every way in which some "mean kids" might twist the name to something else).
For e.g. when I suggested Dakshith which is a very popular name in India, she countered "Do you really want other kids to call him "shi*?"
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#86Your app is fucking amazing.
Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#87This 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…
Nice, and congrats. I was actually in the process of writing an app when we were expecting, so I downloaded the US Census CSV of names to import, and when I perused the file I saw a couple names I liked, asked my wife, and we picked one before I ever had to write any code!
The dream!
We went from trying 5 or 6 apps that we didn't really like, then downloading the CSV of names, then getting overwhelmed by all the names, the making the bone-headed decision to kill a bunch of time building an app instead of just slogging through things.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#88My dad said to me "don't give your boy one of those trendy new names, stick to something traditionally English" so I called him Æthelbert.
How is that is trending, compared to X Æ A-12 ?
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
A static site would remove many of the features that OP built (favourites, matching with partner, sorting).
You could do everything but collaboration using a static site and localStorage though Apple's support of localStorage is iffy now.
You just gave two reasons why it wouldn’t work as a static site
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#90This 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…
Congratulations! We had our first in June. Long before I considered having a child, I built the first baby names app for iPhone with my buddy Dave. [1] Believe it or not, we had a beef going with another app developer over who truly had the first / best baby names app. App game has been competitive since the get. [1] https://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1332494.htm
To you as well :)
That's impressive! Around that time my brother was desperately trying to get me to build his app ideas so we could partner together. I dismissed him as I was busy focussing on school and thought there was no real money in mobile apps. I still regret it today..