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Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by justinlardinois »

Spivak wrote: post #41
SamBam wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 generall…

Believe it or not, having quality content that's presented simply with clean URLs is also a good search engine optimization.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by justinlardinois »

Phritzy wrote: post #2

Why does it have Inauguration Day on both January 19 and 20?

Must be a bug or other error. US presidential terms end on January 20, so it definitely wouldn't be before then. According to Wikipedia inauguration is held on the 20, unless it's a Sunday in which case it's held the next day.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by Kiro »

cschneid wrote: post #15
Kiro wrote: post #12

So obviously this site is built 100% with SEO in mind. The domain name and the fact that each event is its own page with the most obvious searchable title. Good job anyway! Looks really good.

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".

> Why is SEO'd site bad?

I didn't say it was bad.

> The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".

Yes, like it should. However, a lot of titles would be "good" but this is clearly constructed to fetch most of these kind of queries. You would think people search by using more condensen queries but I'm sure "how many days until X" has been researched and shown to be the most common way. People often ask their search engine like they're asking a real person, even if it's more verbose.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by Kiro »

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.

> It seems like a really odd point to bring up.

How so? I pointed it out because I think people in here are interested in SEO and I wanted to highlight that this page is a good example of effective SEO. They do things right.

It's obviously an SEO focused site so NOT bringing up SEO would be odd if anything. It's more or less why this site exists.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by deftnerd »

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.

Several other people have commented on their solutions, but my favorite solution is tvmaze.com/calendar

It's easy to create an account and mark your favorite shows so you get a custom calendar, or you can view a calendar with the overall most popular shows.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by peterbsmith »

mod wrote: post #20
peterbsmith wrote: post #11

I used this website _all_ summer. Summer is awful. I know thats a controversial stance, but I take it. days.to/until/summer showed the days until summer ended. It was great! Simple, to the point, beautiful.

I'm not trying to nitpick, exactly, but why wasn't it days.to/until/fall?

Well...

days.to/until/summer(is Over)

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by logiclabs »

Thanks to whoever posted this, I'm the owner of the site.

Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback. Quite a lot of the feature suggestions made here, I am in the process of developing. The site was basically an MVP for a bigger app, which is why only a handful of events are in the events list.

Feel free to send any feedback via the site (feedback button in bottom right of site)

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by logiclabs »

gregmac wrote: post #42
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.

Yes, you discovered quite a few of the "hidden" urls - also /when-is/.

Originally, the site had exactly as you described with a cleaner url, but SEO had different ideas.

Re: Show HN: How many days until?

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Post by logiclabs »

tedmiston wrote: post #44
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.

All the countdowns will use your computer/phones local timezone.

If you're counting to a date (without a particular time), you'll get the remaining time to midnight in your own timezone. If it's an event with a time, you'll see the start time of the event shown in your local timezone (but the countdown/remaining time will be same everywhere).

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