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Show HN: Progress Bar OS X. How much % of a year/month/day has passed in menubar
- andreyazimov 8y ago1 point by andreyazimov 5 hours ago [-] Hi HN, I am a big fan of Year Progress tweets but I want to see not only year I want to see month and day progress as well in minimal OS X menu bar with a cool progress bar. Demo: https://www.progressbarosx.com/1.jpg https://www.progressbarosx.com/1.jpg, https://www.progressbarosx.com/2.jpg https://www.progressbarosx.com/2.jpg, https://www.progressbarosx.com/3.jpg https://www.progressbarosx.com/3.jpg, https://www.progressbarosx.com/4.jpg https://www.progressbarosx.com/4.jpg, https://www.progressbarosx.com/demo.mp4 https://www.progressbarosx.com/demo.mp4
- akerl_ 8y agoMaybe wait longer than 5 hours before trying to repost the same thing? Honest feedback: when I land on a site that asks me to watch a video to understand the thing, I almost always just close the tab. Put in enough info for me to understand why I'd want this without having to watch the video.
- paperpunk 8y agoThat's interesting, I always feel the opposite -- when I open a page about some software that doesn't have a video I often close the page immediately because I want to see how something works in practice not just in description.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoI want a text description and screenshots but I don't watch videos.
- akerl_ 8y agoIf the description / pictures sell me on the thing being valuable, I pretty immediately download it to try out. In my experience, the time/value tradeoff of watching a video (which in a lot of cases has either extra fluff or has been cleaned up) vs just trying the app/service/etc is not worth it. Which makes it critical that the static contents of the page have enough detail to convince me there's a chance the app could fill a use case for me.
- rp1229 8y agoIntersting idea, but I feel you'll have a difficult time with that price tag.
- labster 8y agoLike they say, time is money.
- ApolloRising 8y agoAgreed, this looks like a fun addon.
- saagarjha 8y agoI agree. I'm not against selling software, but $5 for something I could probably whip up in an hour and post as open source is really not the best way to get people to use your app. This app just doesn't provide enough value to be $5–maybe if it was a dollar.
- lifeformed 8y agoBut wouldn't saving an hour of time for $5 be a good deal?
- saagarjha 8y agoNo, because in doing so I can help a hundred other people save an hour of their life as well.
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- keesj 8y agoYes, but in that hour you could also make something that does not exist yet which would help hundreds of people. This would arguably be worth a lot more than $5.
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- btschaegg 8y agoI never thought I'd get to see someone advertising software with a fight club quote. That certainly scores some sympathy points in my book! :)
- unfunco 8y agoWhatsApp (pre-FB) back in 2012: https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads
- btschaegg 8y agoI haven't read this one yet, thanks for the link! In retrospective, the history of WhatsApp gives this quote an interesting hint of irony.
- vogt 8y agoI really love this idea and greatly appreciate the brevity in implementation, the sales pitch, and the landing page. If I had one suggestion it would be a slightly different visual treatment so as to not conflate it with battery percentage so easily. Maybe small clock icon in the middle of the bar or something.
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- russtrpkovski 8y agoVery cool. Reminds me of https://twitter.com/progressbar201x https://twitter.com/progressbar201x
- utkarshsinha 8y agoLook at https://twitter.com/year_progress https://twitter.com/year_progress for some ASCII goodness.
- Kognito 8y agoI don’t get why you’d reference ‘OS X’ in the title when that name was retired years ago. I assumed this was an app that had been around for a while yet the domain was registered just yesterday. Also, I don’t know about anyone else but I find ‘Progress Bar’ as an app name to be really vague. I wouldn’t know it was a year progress widget without visiting the site. P.s. you’re welcome to my genius naming idea ‘Year Progress macOS’.
- joombaga 8y agoOS X was rebranded in June 2016, less than 2 years ago. The old name is still used pretty often colloquially. In error, sure, but it's not like using Phoenix instead of Firefox. You're right about the name, and yours is a good replacement. It would likely be better received if you suggested it with less snark.
- gaius 8y agodon’t get why you’d reference ‘OS X’ in the title when that name was retired years ago. Was it? I am a Mac user and hadn’t heard that
- savrajsingh 8y agoNice, now do it with life expectancy based on your blood work results and current age :)
- cerberusss 8y agoBoth a simple and very interesting idea... Could get one to stop procrastinating.
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- crocfish 8y agowhy don't developers publish small apps like this in the app store?
- crocfish 8y agoI get an security error when I open this on my mac. Is it hard to become an identified developer?
- jboles 8y ago99/year to not get the security warning. Maybe not worth it for free/open source/hobby projects. Can bypass it by right clicking and choosing ‘Open’ but then you have to make your users aware of that. Totally an Apple racketeering.
- SyneRyder 8y agoAlso, not having the certificate can make it more likely the app will continue to work in future. Apple had an incident where App Store apps stopped working when the App Store certificate was replaced. I lost a few apps that I'd purchased that way (though some developers graciously gave me a non App Store version to work around it): https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/all-mac-store-apps-stopped-working-due-to-expired-security-certificate/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/all-mac-store-apps-stopped...
- saagarjha 8y agoThat's an App Store issue, not a developer certificate one.
- jboles 8y ago... and downvotes without a cogent argument against. Apple is blocking users from running apps (obscure workaround aside) unless the developer pays a yearly fee. How is that not racketeering? To be clear, we’re not even talking about the App Store here. This is for WWW-distributed Mac apps of the regular kind.
- 1stranger 8y agoWhy do you feel it's racketeering?
- byproxy 8y agoAs if I needed more induced anxiety worrying about the passage of time. "time isn't holding up. time isn't after us."
- rubatuga 8y agoThis can easily be done using the program BitBar. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
- raihansaputra 8y agoAny pointers to creating the script to recreate this? Edit: it's here https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time
- leemailll 8y agoThis one is awesome
- vowelless 8y agoI have been using this for years. Highly recommended.
- j45 8y agoBitbar is a nice discovery, thanks for sharing!
- aurorabbit 8y agoHere is my rendition :) https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/7fa0e4d76c97a85f7b0a7318f870ce64#gistcomment-2566203 https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/7fa0e4d76c97a85f7b0a7318f...
- needcaffeine 8y agoI love this. This is what I'm using now!
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- fouc 8y agoDropbox can also be easily done with rsync and fuse.
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- Trundle 8y agoThose that find this interesting might also want to check out Mortality, a chrome extension. It replaces the default new tab window with a count down and has the ability to set it based on your expected death date based on your stats. I've got 19494 days 14 hours and 53 minutes to go. I find it motivating.
- latchkey 8y agoI was hoping that this would patch in with the OSX system progress bars and sum up the total amount of time waiting for something to happen on your computer. I always thought that progress bars were just a waste of life.
- EvanDotPro 8y agoJust found this little gem for Android that allows you to have progress bars like these as a launcher widget. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.donationcoder.pbol https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.donationco...
- EvanDotPro 8y agoFound another Android widget alternative: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davee44.dayprogress https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davee44.da...
- Jonovono 8y agoNice! I made a website like this years ago inspired by a thing I saw on HN called the memento mori (remember, you are dying!) :) http://moriclock.com/ http://moriclock.com/
- InternetJohnny 8y agothanks, i find this much more useful. any chance to create an addon for firefox as well?
- JonasJSchreiber 8y agoWhy the marketing line "this is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"? I don't mean to be rude, but it's kind of an aphorism, and a morbid one at that. But I see people whom I respect making this observation. I'm sincerely wondering why pointing out the obvious is important
- j45 8y agoOur bodies have a finite number of breaths. We don't always prioritize our time that way when it seems like that. Maybe it's also a mindful presence the most of one's day/week/month/year is important. I recall another post about a graph that is generated for the # of your weeks that are used up. It's powerful, and as positive, or not, as I guess as one wants to make it.
- netsharc 8y agoIt's a line from Fight Club, fwiw.
- ponco 8y agoShould be free, with no annoyware and offer a $5 purchase for some extra features, or simply ask for donations
- holografix 8y agoDon’t hear the naysayers, $5 is a good price for it, frankly $4 would be even better not because it’s cheaper in so much as it’s less than a round number that could be used as a mental barrier. I can imagine a lot of non techie creatives using this to keep focused on long projects.
- xchaotic 8y agoI don't mind the 'business model' (I think it's a bit rich to be asking $5 for this, but then you're asking $5 from people who spent $2000-4000 on a laptop). What I do mind a bit is how depressing it seems - I guess I don't want to be reminded about impending death all the time...
- gitgud 8y agoLife isn't short it's the longest thing you'll ever do