Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: How many days until?

days.to

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 78 posts

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#41

Post by Spivak »

SamBam wrote: post #29
cschneid wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is SEO'd site bad? The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".

And how are people supposed to find it if it's not SEO-optimized? Only Hacker News folks in-the-know? It seems like a really odd point to bring up.

I think most of the time it's because everyone has experienced getting low quality results from SEO optimized sites. It's getting to the point where one cannot shop or search for product recommendations on popular search engines because you'll get nothing but toptenreallyspecificproduct.com or absolutebestproduct.com.

Optimizing for search rankings doesn't say anything directly about any given site, but it's generally a signal for low quality content that would not rank highly without such optimizations.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#42

Post by gregmac »

joshmanders wrote: post #10

Kind of dropped the ball on the url. days.to is great, but days.to/until/christmas is kind of wonky. I'd remove the /until/ part so it's just days.to/christmas

Agreed, though interestingly, http://days.to/christmas does work.

There's also a /since/ for each one.

A simple fix, use days.to/next/christmas and days.to/last/christmas. Clean URLs, and they make grammatical sense.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#43

Post by rosstex »

drinchev wrote: post #7

This is one of those cool websites that when I open for the first time I usually say : "Oh that's awesome, I should bookmark it and use more often" and then after 1 hour It's totally forgotten until the next time I clean my bookmarks. Anyway TV Shows episode calendar is really useful and I think it's a nice idea to have this information arranged in this way.

Your only choice is to make it your home page! :)

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#44

Post by tedmiston »

joshmanders wrote: post #10

Kind of dropped the ball on the url. days.to is great, but days.to/until/christmas is kind of wonky. I'd remove the /until/ part so it's just days.to/christmas

Personally, I think the "url hack" is pretty cool; I like having both.

It would be extra cool if it considered each person's local timezone.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#45

Post by tedmiston »

drinchev wrote: post #7

This is one of those cool websites that when I open for the first time I usually say : "Oh that's awesome, I should bookmark it and use more often" and then after 1 hour It's totally forgotten until the next time I clean my bookmarks. Anyway TV Shows episode calendar is really useful and I think it's a nice idea to have this information arranged in this way.

I had the same use case as you, so I built a similar app except instead of a GUI, it sends me a text message. Right now I have it fire when a new episode of Silicon Valley is posted.

I really should polish it up and release it. This is the second or third thread where other people have mentioned a similar need.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#46

Post by tedmiston »

sodafountan wrote: post #39

Looks good, very clean and nice. You should add the ability to create your own custom events, for instance I'm taking a trip to California and Las Vegas next month that I'm looking forward to. It would be nice if I could add that event and maybe the site could be smart enough to pull a picture down when I type in California or Las Vegas. That would for me at least be enough to warrant a bookmark.

I use the iPhone app Big Day Lite for trips like that.

http://bigdayapp.com

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

#50

Post by stevewilhelm »

Couple of comments:

The URL days.to is cool, but from a comprehension point of view if the event is more than a month away, should start using weeks, then months, then years.

Filtering by locale would be helpful

There is lots of open source data on astrological events: eclipses, NASA satellite fly by's, etc.

Gamification. Allow users to submit photos for each event and allow all users to vote them up and down. Props for users with most or best photos.

Or allow users best place to be on that particular event. Again, allow users to vote best up or down.

Post reply on HN