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One-hour Project: really fast timer

12 points by elitheeli ↗ HN
It's taken me all four years of college to realize that my productivity and interest usually tail off after about an hour of distraction-free work. Lacking time to do a weekend project, I threw something together in under an hour.

Your turn to make something marginally useful in http://quicktick.me/1h

(Also: http://quicktick.me/3h1m4s, http://quicktick.me/5:14, http://quicktick.me/111:22:33, count up by not specifying a duration.)

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ebiester
Two more marginally useful things. 1. not seeing seconds skip - there seems to be a bug. 2. Some sort of audio alarm. If I'm using a timer, I am not looking at it.
elitheeli
I didn't bother to test in anything besides Chrome on Mac. I was going to put in an audio alarm, but then I'd have to put in a button to disable audio, then I'd have to make it look pretty, and find a good alarm sound.

That feature is on my todo list, as well as email notification, persistent countdowns (you go to /23h and it'll redirect you to a permalink for that timer), email/SMS notification. Next time I have an hour to dedicate to this, I'll them done.

I always have a browser open, so being able to see the countdown status in the titlebar was sufficient for my needs. If I really wanted something to alert me, I'd use my phone in case I step away from my computer.

EDIT: Yeah, looks like Firefox performs awfully with this.

EDIT2: seems to be fixed on FF now.

Thomaschaaf
Seems a lot like http://steep.it/300 which I really like. So not to say the idea isn't good but has been done :) They are also the makers of http://e.ggtimer.com/ which uses the same "engine".
elitheeli
Hadn't seen that. Doesn't show up when searching for "timer" or "countdown". If I'd seen these, probably wouldn't have wasted an hour.
proexploit
I do prefer your title time implementation over steep.it or e.ggtimer.com ebcause I can actually see the time remaining even with the ususal (10+) amount of tabs open. Cool project for an hour, really could use the audio alarm though as already mentioned.