Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

Howdy, gang; After almost two weeks of sitting in Apple's approval queue, my new app Timebar is finally available.

I think it has a pretty innovative UI feature, so I wanted to float it by Hacker News.

It's a timer app that turns your Mac's menu bar into a sort of virtual hourglass. Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up.

It works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen subconsciously.

Here are a few promo codes. I'd love to hear you you think. :)

  MYE99WJXFW4R
  936LKT4MF49W
  PLKYNNKH4ETN

Your pal; — Mark

Web site: http://whimsicalifornia.com/timebar/ App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebar/id617829225?mt=12 Twitter: https://twitter.com/timebar

This is simple but awesome. I like this way better than my current pomodoro timer. I left a review.

I don't want to see the app all bloated up or anything, but an audible alarm would be nice, as would having a few saved timers (so I could start a pomodoro or a break with a single click).

Well that sucks, I don't use the app-store because I am against it for a thousand reasons. But I thought, what the hell I am going use a promo-code and give this guy some feedback.

So I go through the trouble of actually giving apple all that invasive information they want in order for you to download anything, and all the codes have been redeemed and only one person seems to have honored to provide you a review. :(

And in the 12 minutes it took me to create an HN account to post this story, two more reviews show up. :(

Its just not my day evidently.

He's got it on the Mac App Store, giving away a few copies.

I spent a while trying to work out where you are meant to enter them.

I like to think I'm reasonably clever, but apple's interfaces make me feel like a luddite.