This PR adds a script to generate a database based on France's Insee database for firstnames given from 1900 to 2019.

I replaced the original nomdebebe.db to test it locally, but it would obviously needs more work to be included in the app (user selectable database or a country field in the existing database maybe ?)

Related to https://github.com/hamaluik/nomdebebe/issues/1

See here:

https://github.com/hamaluik/nomdebebe/blob/4c137319bc88dbdaf369a593f4f51723fa84a2a7/website/public/index.html#L14

That image doesn't exist: https://nomdebebe.app/image.jpg

There are some available images in the images directory but the PNG is too big and I don't know if webp will be supported by all clients (Slack, Mattermost, WhatsApp, etc.).

Hey there,

Baby due in a couple of weeks, very timely discovery of your great looking app on HN 🙂 Well, probably a bit too late for us I guess as we can't quite use it as is : we're not in the US and I would need a custom names list.

I've taken a look at the built-in db and although I haven't quite figured out what the decade related fields are for, it sounds easy enough to make a custom one.

Deploying it to the phones is the challenging part (to me at least) : I'm not an iOS dev but I suppose the only way is to build the project in XCode and deploy it manually both to my wife's iPhone and mine, even without a developer certificate ?

But since you already support using a custom server, it would be so much easier if the db could just be downloaded from there ! How much work do you think it would be to add that route server-side + maybe a toggle in the app to override the built-in db with a downloaded one ?

I suppose the iTunes/Finder file transfer method would be fine too, but I'm guessing a bit more work to add to the app ?

Thanks !

It would be great to have a setting to filter by syllables.

I had a quick look into the name generation code, and can see the source data doesn't contain number of syllables. It would have to be parsed during name generation. There are existing algorithms, such as https://github.com/words/syllable (JavaScript) or https://github.com/Serdnad/lyrical_syllables (Rust), for determining number of syllables in a word.

Happy to give that aspect a shot, let me know what environment we have available when running generate.sh.

But I don't know Flutter development else I would have loved to contribute the UI additions.

On the Android app, when a dialog is opened in the settings, I want to tap the physical "back" button on my phone to close the dialog.
Instead of doing that, it closes the entire app.

You likely have to figure out how to handle the onBackPressed method.

First of all, I haven't tried the app yet, but I'm excited to see it exists. It's exactly like an app idea that I wrote down when I was picking baby names for my kids. They're 6 and 9 now, so obviously I haven't gotten around to making it.

One piece that I had in mind to implement that I don't see in this one yet is the ability to use some machine learning or other creative mechanism to recommend names based on others that I've "liked". I'm hoping that would allow a gigantic list of names to be processed more quickly by essentially prioritizing them.

As I see it, names can be related to other names in various ways...

• they sound somewhat alike
• they have a similar construct (double consonant, similar suffix, etc.)
• they are associated by era (i.e. they were each among the most popular names in the early 1900's)

Hi,

First thank you for this great app. Would you consider a pull request which randomizes the order of the names? This would increase the amount of names we as a couple come across.

Greetings Stefan