Very nicely done!
thanks!
Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
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Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#122Hey kid, welcome to the club. Career software person here. Here's some unsolicited advice for improvements: * Focus relentlessly on the calculator experience. Why am I pressing "calculate"? What are some ways you could rework it so that I can give quicker input and get more meaningful output? Your goal should be to reduce friction. Maybe let me type in the time in addition to having the android-style clock widget. De…
Hi, thanks so much for the helpful feedback! I'll definitely look into improving the app.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#123If this is done by a fifteen year old, well done. Given the poor quality of so many web sites, well done regardless. And my apologies if I'm entirely off here, but given how integrated the bedtime calculator is with the mattress sales part of the site, I can't shake the idea anymore that we all fell for clever marketing, here, instead of that we're presumed to be looking at an aspiring, young developer's plea for rec…
> I can't shake the idea anymore that we all fell for clever marketing, here, instead of that we're presumed to be looking at an aspiring, young developer's plea for recognition Marketing play is doubtless; whether the age is genuine or not is a coin toss—as tends to be with affiliate sites, developers go out of their way to avoid referencing a real persona. It’s entirely possible that it was built by a teenager, but…
I was hired by the owner of the site to build the bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#124If this is done by a fifteen year old, well done. Given the poor quality of so many web sites, well done regardless. And my apologies if I'm entirely off here, but given how integrated the bedtime calculator is with the mattress sales part of the site, I can't shake the idea anymore that we all fell for clever marketing, here, instead of that we're presumed to be looking at an aspiring, young developer's plea for rec…
I was hired by the owner of the site to build the bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#125If this is done by a fifteen year old, well done. Given the poor quality of so many web sites, well done regardless. And my apologies if I'm entirely off here, but given how integrated the bedtime calculator is with the mattress sales part of the site, I can't shake the idea anymore that we all fell for clever marketing, here, instead of that we're presumed to be looking at an aspiring, young developer's plea for rec…
Sleepsource is definitely not the brainchild of a 15 year old. Yeah, it'd be nice to know why this app wasn't built as a stand alone page.
I was hired by the owner of the site to build the bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sleepsource is definitely not the brainchild of a 15 year old. Yeah, it'd be nice to know why this app wasn't built as a stand alone page.
According to their facebook it seems like the entire sleepsource site is theirs. "I am a 15 year old front-end web developer and am working on growing sleepsources.com" https://www.facebook.com/josh.ternyak.3
* By building a bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#127Beautiful, really nice!
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#128This is quite nice but I feel a bit too simple. Sleep cycles vary widely from 70-120 minutes per person. I think an advanced mode where a person can input their own record of sleep duration would be nice. Or even getting a couple of sliders to play with varying REM, NREM cycles would be nice.
I never knew this. How can someone determine how long their sleep cycle is? I’d love to figure out how long mine is.
A good sleep tracking device with an accelerometer can generally record light sleep vs heavy sleep periods. See worn devices like Fitbit Versa 2 or (with the new watchOS 7) Apple Watch 3 and later, or devices that sit on the mattress itself like Withings Sleep.
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can't shake the idea anymore that we all fell for clever marketing, here, instead of that we're presumed to be looking at an aspiring, young developer's plea for recognition Marketing play is doubtless; whether the age is genuine or not is a coin toss—as tends to be with affiliate sites, developers go out of their way to avoid referencing a real persona. It’s entirely possible that it was built by a teenager, but…
I was hired by the owner of the site to build the bedtime calculator tool. I do not own the site.
Interesting! For some reason I’ve never thought of posting work I’ve done for hire under Show HN label…
Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any tips on improving technical writing beyond what you've mentioned here?
Write in active voice. That's the single most important lesson I learnt when writing technical specifications. The #1 goal of technical writing is to be clear and accurate, so passive voice should take a back seat unless you cannot phrase it otherwise. Active voice lets you convey clearer, more concise statements that describe a concept. Take for example "the ball was thrown by the man" vs "the man threw the ball". T…
Thanks for the tip for Word! Those settings are put real deep in the options.