One-hour Project: really fast timer

12 pointselitheeli15y ago7 comments

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.)

12 pointselitheeli15y ago7 comments

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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Thomaschaaf15y ago· 1 in thread

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".

elitheeliOP15y ago

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.

ebiester15y ago· 1 in thread

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.

elitheeliOP15y ago

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.

proexploit15y ago

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.

martinshen15y ago

simple fun idea

hanula15y ago

fun idea :)

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