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Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#31
It's a nice timer, but this recent casualization of the word 'fuck' is irritating, and I don't care to support it. It was in a ton of the blog headlines posted on this very site last year, and all it does is detract from the power of the word, while doing nothing to add an edge to your project. Sorry.

Nice timer, though. Find a real way to motivate the user without abuse and it'd be even cooler.

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#32

It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer. I couldn't work out why making the text box lose focus didn't start it. I ended up having to read the source to figure it out! Also, it'd be good if there would be a way to start a new task after clicking "I give up"! Funny idea for a pomodoro timer!

> It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer.

It felt pretty natural to me. We've been entering text in a box and pressing enter after we are done for decades.

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#33
post #23

Fantastic. I just stuck on some metal and got some shit done for 25 minutes, although I was a little disappointed when nothing happened at 00:00. :(

It should have some kind of :D emoticon and a question along the lines of "So what's next?"

Heh, perhaps prepending "Fuck yeah!" to the :D emoticon, to stick with the theme. :)

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#36

Feature Request: Allow the use of a hashmark (or a different method) to pre-fill the user input, and auto-start the timer. Then you could send it to people who you want to get stuff done.

Definitely implement this. And add email notifications when the URL is clicked AND when the timer runs out.

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#37
post #9
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If enough people use this, we have plans to include additional logic to it (database, etc.) to make it more collaborative - definitely stay tuned if you like it and give us more feedback on what you would like to see!

You could achieve this entirely statelessly (i.e. without a database) by encoding the task name in the URL. This is the sort of feature that could fuel growth by encouraging sharing :)

That's more what I was going for -- a nice, short URL I can send to someone.

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#38
post #32

It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer. I couldn't work out why making the text box lose focus didn't start it. I ended up having to read the source to figure it out! Also, it'd be good if there would be a way to start a new task after clicking "I give up"! Funny idea for a pomodoro timer!

> It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer. It felt pretty natural to me. We've been entering text in a box and pressing enter after we are done for decades.

This is very true, but only if it's obvious that some data is supposed to be sent to the server, e.g. a search box. In my mind this pattern didn't apply because it was clear something was supposed to happen on the client, not the server, i.e. activate the timer. I presumed that causing the text box to lose focus would activate it.

I know I'm wrong, I just described my dozy error caused by what I perceived to be an anti-pattern.

Re: Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

#39
post #14

I like it! I think the progress indicator in the title needs some rounding love, however: document.title = (100 * time / totaltime).toFixed(1) + "%";

Agreed.

You might want to round() first, though:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726630/javascript-format...

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