The parents behind Bundle of Joy.

Hello. My name is Ramcha. Parvathi (my wife) and I are parents to our beloved toddler, Ishan.

I started Bundle of Joy in Dec 2023 to solve a problem we faced when we were looking to name our son 2 years ago.

But wait, how can something that’s supposed to be as joyous as “naming a newborn” be a problem?

Welcome to a typical day in the life of an expecting couple!

My wife and I both thought it was going to be fun looking for a name that we really liked. But then, as expecting parents, your days are so overwhelmingly packed. For the uninitiated, here is a typical week in the life of a parent expecting their baby:

maternity care for the mother,
financial planning and replanning,
anxieties around labor,
constant worries over preparedness for delivery,
postpartum care planning for the mom and the baby,
juggling work and other personal things that come your way,
preparing your home for the newest member,
the mental process of discovering yourself as a parent (this is the hardest of them all),
and if you’re really unlucky, get to deal with once-in-a-lifetime COVID-like epidemic – like millions of parents in the last few years did

You pretty much end each day drained physically and mentally, with very little left in the tank. And, when you do manage to find some time to sit down and shortlist a few names, you’re not ready for what’s about to hit you! Read on.

All the currently available options to explore names for your baby suck. Why?

There are websites that let you browse through 100s of advertisement-laced pages with 1000s of names alphabetically sorted. But, that’s exhausting. I’m already on my last legs at the end of a tiring day. Where do I get a list of names that go with my vibes? I don’t want a dump of all names that ever existed on the face of the earth. Can you just show me a few names, learn from what I like/ dislike among those names and then show me more names based on what you learnt about my taste?
You want to explore names by different origins/ themes/ starting letters before you decide? Sorry, tough luck. You need to again go through 100s of webpages loaded with annoying ads. Many of them don’t even have such filters or have relevant names for your unique preferences.
My wife and I went through 6 different such websites/ apps. Imagine repeating the previous steps for each of those 6 websites. Ugh!
While going through these websites, I did see a few names I liked. But maintaining a single shortlist for the names I picked up across 6-7 websites and apps, and exchanging that shortlist with the partner becomes extra tedious.
Now, throw in country-specific restrictions around fetal gender determination pre-birth, and you have double the work to pick a name for your baby – one set for a girl and another for a boy! Yay. 🙂
Last but not the least, the whole process of getting this shortlist of names is so exhausting that you don’t spend enough time CHOOSING THE RIGHT NAME FROM THE SHORTLIST.

I imagined the process of picking a name for our baby would be fun. It was actually fun to a large extent. But truth be told, it did eventually become yet another task in our already long to-do list. The whole process did have its magical moments – especially when my wife and I would like the same name (and that wasn’t often), and eventually us choosing that one name from a handful of ‘potentials’. But we also felt the whole process could be a lot simpler and efficient.

So, I built Bundle of Joy…

Bundle of Joy hopes to solve these problems, while making the joyous aspects of picking a name for your baby a bit more joyous.

The product is already being used by quite a few parents across the world in just the few months of unofficial launch. I’m quite happy with the feedback from the users so far. I’m nervously excited to see how I can take this to more parents. Fingers crossed!

I’m building Bundle of Joy singlehandedly with the following belief – “if the app saves time for expecting parents and makes choosing a name for their baby a pleasant process, they’d be happy to pay a very small one-time fee.” I’ve designed Bundle of Joy’s pricing and refund policies keeping this belief in mind. I hope you like using Bundle of Joy.

If you or someone you know is expecting a baby, get started here right away. If you know someone expecting a baby, you could gift them a pack or simply refer Bundle of Joy to them.

If you’re reading this while being in the process of picking a name for your baby, wishing you and your partner lots of happy moments naming your ‘Bundle of joy’! 😀

If you have any feedback/ thoughts, I’m available on this email ID. I look forward to hearing from you!