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Show HN: My weekend project - a baby naming app

12 pointsby iamdsalmost 12 years ago
We were finding it hard to come up with a name for our soon to be born daughter so I decided to make an app to help us find one. Let me know what you think!<p>www.namemeababy.com

3 comments

jayrobinalmost 12 years ago
A bit of feedback:<p>* Nice and simple design<p>* I can&#x27;t select the &quot;Contains&quot; or &quot;Ends with&quot; fields (this may be intentional)<p>* I&#x27;m pretty sure it should be Boys&#x27; and Girls&#x27; rather than Boy&#x27;s and Girl&#x27;s<p>* As Ecio78 mentioned: needs to be case-insensitive<p>* If I type too quickly in the &quot;Begins with&quot; field, it only matches the first one or two letters (e.g. Begins with bor returns Byson, Byrum, Byron...)<p>* I could eventually select the &quot;Contains&quot; and &quot;Ends with&quot; fields after messing around with it, but then couldn&#x27;t sort by &quot;Popularity&quot; until reloading (at which point I couldn&#x27;t select the text fields again)<p>* It turns out that I can only select all the buttons and text fields if the browser is maximised. Looks like div#myModal is covering a number of interactive elements and preventing clicks at a certain screen height and below<p>* Popularity graphs are a nice touch and make it far more interesting to play around with, but I didn&#x27;t realise I could view them for quite a while (thought I could only see the tooltip)<p>* Disappointed with the lack of &quot;Bort&quot;
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wikwocketalmost 12 years ago
This is technically a neat app, congrats for launching it.<p>However, I don&#x27;t think many parents look to browse names based on prefix&#x2F;suffix&#x2F;infix. You may wish to add additional filters (based on what sort of census data you have).<p>Some ideas:<p>* Show only popular or only unique names<p>* Show modern names (recently popular)<p>* Show traditional names (long history)<p>* Show names with recent rising popularity<p>* Show names with historical popularity (that may have fallen out of use)<p>* Show names with similar histories (this would allow you to add a very important feature: &quot;I like this name, show me related names!&quot;)<p>Finally, your graph feature is very nice; some of my favorite baby-naming books show this. But it&#x27;s not very discoverable. You could make the name look more like a link, or show some graphics in your header as a demo.
Ecio78almost 12 years ago
You should use case insensitive matching for filtering, if I put &quot;K&quot; on the &quot;begins with&quot; it shows nothing
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