That's a strange understanding of minimalism.
It’s a Steve-Jobs-core thing. Like calling something beautiful.
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#12That's a strange understanding of minimalism.
Yeah, on first glance, I thought it was running on a readme.md
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#13A little aggressive. Somewhat cringey. Mostly harmless. I’ll try it, continue to use it if I like it, and if I continue using it and you ever start charging for it I’ll vibe code my own given the lack of complexity.
Or you could just ask your LLM for other timer sites that do the same thing. Probably burn fewer tokens that way, since you seem to be so cost-conscious.
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#14It looks neat! I like that you use a dark BG (I prefer using my display in low light)
What I'd like to see in a tool like this:
- loose / fuzzy autocomplete for tasks - shortcuts
PS. I made a tool for... sitting and doing nothing at all; people on HN seemed to like it:
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#15Here's my take on a Timer: https://github.com/Klaster1/timer-5. Local only too (it's a PWA), with optional JSON export/import and basic filters/stats. Served me well for more than 10 years.
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#16Simple and sweet. Please turn off the autoplay for sounds. If possible, please add Pomodoro too.
If you want pomodoro try this : https://pomofocus.io/ handles sets of 25-minute focus periods with 5-minute breaks out of the box.
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#17My thought is why do I need a web app to track my time? If there are no functions that actually require web, then what's the point? If it's to practice your personal coding skills - ok, that's actually a good way. Especially the feedback from real users is great. Otherwise it solves an imaginary problem.
And then I can share the fact that I was doing something for some amount of time? Seems like something opposite to minimalism.
> Not monetizing it (yet)
This is amazing.
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#18This does not feel like a minimalist approach at all.
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#19Is the source available anywhere?
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#20My thought is why do I need a web app to track my time? If there are no functions that actually require web, then what's the point? If it's to practice your personal coding skills - ok, that's actually a good way. Especially the feedback from real users is great. Otherwise it solves an imaginary problem. And then I can share the fact that I was doing something for some amount of time? Seems like something opposite to…
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