Show HN: My weekend project - a baby naming app
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!
www.namemeababy.com
www.namemeababy.com
* Nice and simple design
* I can't select the "Contains" or "Ends with" fields (this may be intentional)
* I'm pretty sure it should be Boys' and Girls' rather than Boy's and Girl's
* As Ecio78 mentioned: needs to be case-insensitive
* If I type too quickly in the "Begins with" field, it only matches the first one or two letters (e.g. Begins with bor returns Byson, Byrum, Byron...)
* I could eventually select the "Contains" and "Ends with" fields after messing around with it, but then couldn't sort by "Popularity" until reloading (at which point I couldn't select the text fields again)
* 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
* Popularity graphs are a nice touch and make it far more interesting to play around with, but I didn't realise I could view them for quite a while (thought I could only see the tooltip)
* Disappointed with the lack of "Bort"
However, I don't think many parents look to browse names based on prefix/suffix/infix. You may wish to add additional filters (based on what sort of census data you have).
Some ideas:
* Show only popular or only unique names
* Show modern names (recently popular)
* Show traditional names (long history)
* Show names with recent rising popularity
* Show names with historical popularity (that may have fallen out of use)
* Show names with similar histories (this would allow you to add a very important feature: "I like this name, show me related names!")
Finally, your graph feature is very nice; some of my favorite baby-naming books show this. But it's not very discoverable. You could make the name look more like a link, or show some graphics in your header as a demo.