名豆豆 - 给孩子取名字的微信小程序

This is a mini program designed specifically for picking baby names. In China, baby names are closely tied to the era. For example, people born in the 1950s and 1960s often had names like Jianguo (founding of the nation), Jianjun (army founding), and Guoqing (national day). In the 1980s and 1990s, common names included Rui, Qiang, Wei, Zhuang, Yang, and Feng. After 2000, especially in the last 20 years, baby names have become even more generic and repetitive, with popular choices like Yumeng, Zihan, Haoyu, Haoran, Jingze, Muchen, Xingchen, Jingyan, Xingze, Junze, Mingze, and Yichen. Are these names bad? Not at all. I’m not saying they’re bad, just that they’re too uniform, too repetitive. You’ll find dozens of kids with the same name in a single kindergarten. Stories like this often make the news, and I’ve always been quietly bothered by this issue. This Chinese New Year, I came across a short video of a family in my city who had quadruplets and had no idea what to name them. Better to act now than wait for the perfect time. I put down my phone, opened my computer, and started this project right away without any prior preparation. The first version was finished half a month later, using AI to generate names. I ran a small test among my WeChat contacts, and the response was lukewarm. The biggest issue was the slow speed. This is an inherent flaw of AI name generation: you have to craft a prompt based on the user’s preferences, send it to the AI, then wait for a response. This process takes 2 full minutes, and users all said it was way too slow. Just then, I saw that Doubao (the large language model) was running a promotion that gave out vouchers for referrals. So I iterated to the second version. I invited hundreds of people and got over 10,000 yuan worth of vouchers. I used Doubao to predict user preferences in advance and pre-generated names to store in the database. Everyone agreed the second version was extremely fast. A few users did mention that naming a baby is a serious matter, and such fast results might make it feel too casual, but I planned to address that later. Once the speed issue was fixed, I needed to solve the monetization problem. I’d planned to charge for the service from the very start. I never intended to make a free product. I then iterated to the third version, which focused on user experience optimizations: 1. I made some non-essential but useful features paid-only, such as limits on saved names, daily name generation limits, and special name generation functions. 2. I added a referral system, where users can get extra name generation chances by inviting others. 3. I added a distribution and commission system: if you invite someone to register and they end up paying for the service, you get a commission. 4. I also made a host of other user experience improvements. With that, the first major phase of this mini program was fully completed. I call it the first phase because if the product doesn’t gain any traction, I will never put more effort into maintaining it and will just let it fade away on its own. If the market response is good, I have a long list of features I want to add, such as location-based recommendations for postpartum care centers and postnatal recovery services in each city, prenatal fetal portrait drawing and interactive features, and other prenatal-related services. But I can’t work on these right now, as I’m worried I’ll waste time and get no return in the end. I’ve checked all the current pregnancy-related apps in China, and none of them are well-made. Yesterday I planned to promote my mini program on one of the top mom-focused apps in the country. Its community looked very active, but I found out in the end that all the posts and replies were generated by AI, with no real users. So there’s actually a lot of room for improvement in this industry. That’s a little off-topic, though.