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Tell HN: I made a minimalist timer. Launching today.
- Khao 16y agoI don't see why you have to do a postback to start the timer. I should be javascript only in my opinion.
- Khao 16y agoOh! I didn't see that the time was in the url so that you can launch it just by having the right url. Maybe you could try using a way that is url and javascript friendly like a hashtag?
- strick 16y agoMaybe - but I find it handy to be able to use the browser's URL autocomplete to fill these in for me. That is, I type "5" and firefox pops up with 5.minutestocountdown.com and I can just hit enter to start it.
- Khao 16y agoHowever, if you are someone who rarely uses the same timer, you would always have to type .minutestocountdown.com after your time because the browser wouldn't know the url yet. I guess it all depends on what use people will make out of it.
- tariq 16y agodoes the job. ui doesn't look too great though. why so small? countdown time should take up entire screen.
- strick 16y agoI thought people might want to use the site on a mobile device, so I bought a mobile theme from themeforest for $9. Turns out it isn't easy to find a minimalist site template that works well on both mobile and desktop browsers. Let me know if you know of any! I'm not a designer :-)
- tariq 16y agofamiliar with html and css? you could design the page to be completely fluid and use up to 100% of the screen width. then use the meta viewport tag and/or media queries to size the page for mobiles. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/combining_meta.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/combining_me... used the technique here, only difference is i set max-width http://concertsto.com http://concertsto.com
- lulin 16y agoVery similar to steep.it. I like the idea.
- henrywilliams 16y agoAnd http://e.ggtimer.com/ http://e.ggtimer.com/, which powers steep.it and is less tea related.