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Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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Post by TallGuyShort »

houreaction wrote: post #25
vowelless wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How ridiculous. FB is paying $300,000+ per year for React developers. This is an extremely valuable skill to acquire. Even better at such a young age. This kid has a bright future.

there are more important things than making money, friend. I think we can agree to disagree.

I got into software because I loved it as a kid. I'm also surrounded by people constantly complaining about crippling student debt, expensive housing, the current job market, unhappiness at work, a lack of satisfaction in their life - problems I don't have to deal with because I made good money doing what I love at a young age. Am I missing any other "more important" things? Give the kid a break - this is cool and I'm glad they're showing off a project here.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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Post by nooyurrsdey »

Nice work! I really like that i could drag the minute hand on the clock and it "snap" to the 30 minute value. That's a small but important touch.

This is a simple and straightforward. Don't bloat up the site too much and this will be a great project to show off and easy to maintain. Keep building stuff like this :)

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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Post by tylerscott »

xupybd wrote: post #32
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #28

Wow! The site and its functionality are cool. I am not a web dev, so I can’t say much more than that. What really impresses me is the site’s collection of information and its presentation. It is very thoughtful. Not too much. Not too little. You even included sources for most of your information. Fantastic! Don’t lose focus on your writing skills as you develop your technical skills. Both will serve you well. Great w…

Any tips on improving technical writing beyond what you've mentioned here?

I found this book to be a wonderful resource on tech writing: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/product/Technic.... You can sometimes find a cheap used copy. The material hasn’t really changed all that much between editions.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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Post by sixQuarks »

sverhagen wrote: post #60

If 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.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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Post by iask »

joshternyak wrote: post #2

Ever wake up feeling groggy, even though you thought you had enough sleep? It turns out that by timing your wake up time based on REM cycles, you can wake up more refreshed and more productive. This got me thinking, why don't I put my front-end web development skills to the test and build a tool that will help people optimize their sleep schedule? So, I built a bedtime calculator with React JS, as well as some fancy…

I find it useful and love it! Congrats. Maybe change the button text to Reset after calculation.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

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sverhagen wrote: post #60

If 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…

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