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Show HN: How many days until?
- Phritzy 10y agoWhy does it have Inauguration Day on both January 19 and 20?
- uptown 10y agoIt's the 2016 election. Things are a little different this year.
- justinlardinois 10y agoMust 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.
- logiclabs 10y agoYes, it was a timezone bug. The page was tracking January 20 (but at midnight in UTC timezone), so some people would see Jan 19, some Jan 20. It's now fixed.
- logiclabs 10y agoSorry, the 19th was a timezone issue and is now fixed. The reason for 2 events/pages are that they are tracking different events. 1) The day of the inauguration (start of the day) 2) The start time of the inauguration ceremony (12pm ET on the 20th). The latter will allow you to count down the time to the start of the ceremony in your local timezone.
- RodericDay 10y agoYou should scrape a bit and populate this for TV shows. Neither "Rick and Morty" nor "Line of Duty" were there.
- sgloutnikov 10y agoOn that note, myepisodes.com is absolutely great for tracking and keeping up with your TV show episodes.
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoThis looks like kind of a fun project, but Google already returns at least some of this information in their enhanced search results (ex: "When is Fathers Day").
- markmontymark 10y agoBut, you'd have to go do that search for Father's Day where this interface reminds you, like a Calendar, that something is coming up that maybe wasn't on your mind atm.
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- drinchev 10y agoThis 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.
- 1_player 10y agoI've been using episode-alert.com for the past year to track TV shows. Really useful. It also sends you an email when a new episode is out.
- ikeboy 10y agoShout-out for sidereel.com They send emails for new episodes, and also allow you to mark episodes as watched, which is great for working through archives. I only wish they had something for movies as well.
- unknown2374 10y agomaybe check out https://trakt.tv/ https://trakt.tv/, I have been using it for more than 3 years and it's absolutely amazing. It even has multiple mobile apps, I personally use SeriesGuide on my android phone.
- rosstex 10y agoYour only choice is to make it your home page! :)
- tedmiston 10y agoI 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.
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- andrewpe 10y agoI always search on Google "days til {event or date}" and the first link is always this site. This site is a big time saver
- joshmanders 10y agoKind 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
- gregmac 10y agoAgreed, though interestingly, http://days.to/christmas 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.
- logiclabs 10y agoYes, 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.
- tedmiston 10y agoPersonally, 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.
- logiclabs 10y agoAll 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).
- peterbsmith 10y agoI 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.
- mod 10y agoI'm not trying to nitpick, exactly, but why wasn't it days.to/until/fall?
- peterbsmith 10y agoWell... days.to/until/summer(is Over)
- logiclabs 10y agoThanks for the nice feedback.
- Kiro 10y agoSo 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.
- cschneid 10y agoWhy 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".
- oaktowner 10y agoyeah, they're paying for it with advertising. So it seems like a natural choice.
- SamBam 10y agoAnd 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.
- Spivak 10y agoI 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.
- jdavis703 10y agoThe only time I use Google to find a product is when I know need something but don't know what it's called exactly. Otherwise I just go to the relevant e-commerce site to skip past all the BS.
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- leojg 10y agoFor this to be somewhat useful should have much more data about every country in the world. I don't really care about any of those dates... maybe us elections because it has an international relevance. Or find a niche like mountain bike, and list all the mountainbiking events
- mcargian 10y agoI always use something like https://days.to/since/new-years-day https://days.to/since/new-years-day to check when eggs are packaged. All eggs (in the USA at least) have a three digit code showing the date it was packaged on the end of the carton. Helps to see how old the eggs are at the market.
- wreft 10y agoHow is that better than checking the expiry/best before date? Or is that not available in the states? (Canadian)
- ohitsdom 10y agoFirst thing I checked was days until Elon's Mars talk next Tuesday, since that's what I'm counting down to. So count one vote to add that event! http://www.spacex.com/mars http://www.spacex.com/mars
- pmarreck 10y agoWas disappointed to not see a days.to "Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere", so I requested adding it.
- tmaly 10y agoCool idea, I would love support for geolocated events. We have a set of country fairs in Connecticut that start in August and end in October. It would be a cool application for location
- swalsh 10y agoGotta second the geolocated events, for most the fluff festival in Somerville MA isn't on their radar. For locals though, it's always on the back of our minds (this weekend by the way)
- tmaly 10y agoThe challenge is how to get all this local knowledge into the system. This seems to be more specialized knowledge that perhaps even Google does not have easily organized. How would you go about doing that?
- gweinberg 10y agoNeeds "Kiss a Ginger Day".
- Taylor_OD 10y agoFunctions well but its a bit difficult to absorb the information in the current layout. A tiny bit of space between events might be nice.
- meggar 10y agooh good, only another 365 days until autumn.
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- RangerScience 10y agoNeat! Good form factor, as it lets me explore things I'd otherwise never think of (mostly, cultural events in other cultures), but... ...Doesn't have what I care about (festivals), does have what I really don't care about (sports). Can you add a filter so I can remove the latter? Not sure what you can do about the former - data sources / input is the hard part, I'm pretty sure :P
- logiclabs 10y agoYes, filtering will definitely be added soon.
- asciimo 10y agoNice work. What kind of ad revenue are you getting?
- bpoyner 10y agoNeat stuff. The USA total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 should be added too, imho.
- Jugurtha 10y agoPretty nice. Just a few ideas: * Is it necessary to go to a url when one clicks on an event? The amount of information displayed is tiny (date, event title, time until event) and it's a waste of screen space and time (now I have to go back to look at other things). It would be cool to show the information in a modal box and then continue to browse what's coming up. * Okay, now I'm on days.to and I know that an event will take place in two months. Then what? I leave the site and in a few days, I forget about it. I think I stumbled upon an email feature but I couldn't find it again. It also has a calendar. Why? Would it be better to build on something a large number of people are already using and trusting to manage their daily lives? Something like Google Calendar or Facebook Events. Maybe using their API to insert an event into the already existing calendar. Even if I leave days.to, I can still see the positive it brought to my life and I'm more likely to come back. * Maybe topics. I push in some interests. With enough users, it might start detecting certain patterns and starts showing me upcoming events resulting from the interests of people who share some of my interests. If I like music and painting, and you like music and theatre, it might show me theatre events and show you painting events.
- ryanmonroe 10y agoWolfram Alpha has similar functionality (minus the home page) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+until+doctor+strange http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+until+doctor+stran...
- tedmiston 10y agoIt would be cool if Wolfram Alpha had knowledge of TV show releases. I tried a few but no dice.
- Jhsto 10y agoBeen using this site before and the only thing which bothers me is the moving background color. While it is a nice addition on desktop, it makes my 2015 Macbook's fans blow after some seconds. I would suggest looking for less computing intensive way to make the backgrounds work like they do now. Either way, it's not a huge deal since I seldom watch the site for longer than those few seconds, but I have clicked the alternative links on Google a few times just to see if they would function any better.
- logiclabs 10y agoThanks for the feedback. The blurry coloured backgrounds are just images (placeholder images really) but they transition in using CSS. This is a bit more obvious on the pages that have a "proper" background image. I'll look at adding an option to allow users to disable the transitions.
- askopress 10y agoJust a design tip: the red border that separates the full date from the days till countdown is completely unnecessary. Also, a bit bigger dark gradient behind it would be nice. Also, when hovering over the top menu the link goes dark enough to be hard to read, so perhaps not change the color on hover, but add a border underneath the link instead to hint that the link is being in fact hovered?
- logiclabs 10y agoThanks for the feedback. The latter is a bit of a CSS over-sight/"bug".. will fix.
- cylinder 10y agoReally cool. You may want to add southern hemisphere seasons to it too
- sodafountan 10y agoLooks 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.
- tedmiston 10y agoI use the iPhone app Big Day Lite for trips like that. http://bigdayapp.com http://bigdayapp.com
- tylerjwilk00 10y agoYou may find the following useful for creating custom events with a countdown timer: http://countdownmaker.com/ http://countdownmaker.com/ For example: http://countdownmaker.com/countdown/3vnlvm/ http://countdownmaker.com/countdown/3vnlvm/
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- molly0 10y agoBuilt With Django?
- stevewilhelm 10y agoCouple 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.
- cJ0th 10y agofor linux there is gcal which to some extend offers this service for the commandline. For instance: gcal -N -q US_CA tells you the days days left until each holiday in California, Usa.
- nabaraz 10y agoSearched for my football club 'Chelsea'. No Results found.
- justinlardinois 10y agoWhat were you expecting to come up?
- wybiral 10y agoThe aesthetic would be awesome if it weren't for those giant ads on the side. It throws off my days-till-Halloween vibe.
- stockkid 10y agoI am in the Southern hemisphere and found the seasonal countdowns irrelevant (https://days.to/until/spring https://days.to/until/spring).
- contravariant 10y agoIn their defence they do list the march equinox as well, for the internationally minded (https://days.to/until/march-equinox https://days.to/until/march-equinox).
- ChrisNorstrom 10y agoLove it. Althought I would prefer it be in a timeline fashion. It would make it more easy to skim with your eyes.
- logiclabs 10y agoThanks 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)
- juanuys 10y agoHeh, I made something similar for a dashboard a while ago to show how many business days remain until a specified event, e.g.: http://bizdaysuntil.herokuapp.com/?year=2016&month=12&day=25&what=Xmas+Launch&size=14&highlight=fefe55 http://bizdaysuntil.herokuapp.com/?year=2016&month=12&day=25... Code: https://github.com/opyate/daysuntil https://github.com/opyate/daysuntil