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Consumer and social
baby name app
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How HN took it
41 positive, 69 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 17 critical, out of 133 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 11 for, 3 againstDesign: 8 for, 5 againstExecution: 4 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Better than cluttered SEO-filled name sites
From 1 comment
My wife is pregnant and we just had a really good time going through names, thanks for this! Just like searching for recipes, searching baby names can be a miserable…
MattyRad on HN
Objections
Data is only US Social Security names, so no regional or language filtering
From 2 comments
Your app is fucking amazing. Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?
Fiahil on HNDespite the French name for the app, this seems to only use English names.
seszett on HN
Sharing tab gave an error on Android
From 2 comments
My wife is pregnant and we just had a really good time going through names, thanks for this! Just like searching for recipes, searching baby names can be a miserable…
MattyRad on HNDang, I'm sorry about that.. any chance you can send me a screenshot / phone details? I unfortunately don't have a good way of debugging this (essentially I think that error…
hamaluik on HN
Requests
Filter for gender-neutral names
From 1 comment
This looks lush. One request - a filter for genderless names would be amazing. I have no idea what my kids will want to identify as so having something gender neutral seems like…
antihero on HN
Show spelling variants
From 1 comment
> 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…
gus_massa on HN
Filter by region or language
From 2 comments
Your app is fucking amazing. Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?
Fiahil on HNI would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to…
lawlorino on HN
Questions
Does it filter names by first letter, sex and decade?
From 1 comment
> 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…
gus_massa on HN
Is there a third option besides like and dislike?
From 1 comment
> 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…
gus_massa on HN
Alternatives named
babynamewizard.com
From 1 comment
What, has everyone forgotten the legendary babynamewizard.com? It was one of the few java applets that succeeded. Seems to be still kicking, probably rewritten in javascript.…
kerblang on HN
Elo-based name ranking scripts
From 2 comments
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…
cortesoft on HNWe 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…
Amorymeltzer on HN
Other baby-name apps
From 1 comment
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…
hamaluik on HN