Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by christinang89 » Sun, Jul 26, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses
wfh.ninja

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by therobot24 » Sun, Jul 26, 2015, 11:39 PM UTC

i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by christinang89 » Sun, Jul 26, 2015, 11:52 PM UTC

therobot24 wrote: post #2

i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc

that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by ultrafez » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:03 AM UTC

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :)

(not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by mettamage » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:20 AM UTC

I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by prawn » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:40 AM UTC

For anyone who doesn't recognise the term and is too lazy to click through, WFH = working from home.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by wyc » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:40 AM UTC

Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by christinang89 » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:41 AM UTC

therobot24 wrote: post #2

i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc

fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by christinang89 » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:42 AM UTC

mettamage wrote: post #5

I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.

i actually noticed a lot of people downvoting "excuses" and decided to switch the positions of the vote up and down buttons. Previously, the vote up was on the left and down on the right. I'm curious to see if the votes will now swing the other way ;)

Re: Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

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Post by christinang89 » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 12:43 AM UTC

ultrafez wrote: post #4

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :) (not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

:) i had fun building it! slightly off tangent though, building it via flask backend was a pain. on hindsight, i'd probably have used node instead.