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Remind HN: Father's Day is Sunday
I know many of us are super-busy and absorbed in projects, so I thought I'd post a quick reminder for those who celebrate this holiday.
Still have a few days left to think of a way to show your dad your appreciation. I usually can't think of anything and end up getting him some golf balls (lame). This year I think I'll take him to a baseball game...
- graywh 18y agoAnd a preemptive congratulations to any Hackers celebrating their first Father's Day. (This will be my second.)
- icky 18y agoCongratulations on finding your father. ;-)
- davidw 18y agoThanks:-) http://flickr.com/photos/26254919@N05/ http://flickr.com/photos/26254919@N05/
- tom 18y agoA new baby (especially the first) is an interesting combination of 1. dang I have no time, and 2. I best get working so I can afford to but this little one through school! Three weeks old today. Wowzers.
- dmpayton 18y agoMy daughter won't be arriving until around the 19th, so I don't get to celebrate this year. :(
- davidw 18y agoYou could celebrate by sleeping for 8 or 9 hours in a row, something I won't be able to do:-)
- Frocer 18y agoI wish there were a web app that recommends me gift ideas that doesn't suck. Because every holiday season, I struggle for days to find gifts. Hey, there's an idea for the adventurous :P
- dmoney 18y agoHere's a thought: you tell it your budget, who you want to send stuff to, some categories they're likely to be interested in, and what dates/holidays. It nags you x days beforehand to pick a gift from the ones it's selected. If you don't it sends the highest ranked one within your budget. It would be cool if xmas/birthday cards could be semiautomated too.
- ralphb 18y agoBrilliant idea. To top it off, let's put it at verypersonalgifts.com
- whacked_new 18y agoSounds like something potentially very profitable, but very sad. After cards are automated, someone would be working on automating their contents. I can't recall the last time I bought a card for someone. I can, however, recall the last time I made a card for someone.
- hugh 18y agoThat's probably overdoing it (especially the semi-automatic sending of gifts) but I genuinely think that a "help you select gifts" application would be a nice idea. The way I see it working is that you start off by telling it basic data about your recipient (e.g. 55 year old male), and it makes suggestions one at a time, which you can rank from "not bad" to "terrible" depending on whether you think they'd like it. Every ten suggestions it gives you a list of "the best so far", and hopefully you'll eventually be sent off to Amazon or whatever to buy one. This is actually a really good idea. It's not too impersonal, it's useful to a lot of people (much better than just browsing the shops looking for inspiration), it has a clear revenue stream, and people could be prompted to use it several times a year.
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- yagibear 18y agoHow is Father's Day any more relevant to Hackers than it is to the rest of society? If no more relevant (as I suspect), then reminders such as this seem off-topic for HN.
- AndyKelley 18y agoIt increases the sense of community. And from the title it is easy to avoid if you don't want to waste your time.
- Tichy 18y agoImagine all kinds of similar events being posted to HN. Eventually, it would not be so easy to ignore them anymore. Better to be careful from the beginning.
- Alex3917 18y agoAt least these posts are more useful than some of the other stuff that's made the front page recently. The only way I know it's fathers day is from the ads on the radio, and even then I can usually only narrow it down to within a week or so.
- jacobbijani 18y agoDon't be a sourpuss.
- dkokelley 18y agoHacker News, at least to me, is much more that a "place for hacker news," it's a community. The news articles here are not just plain technology news - I could try CNET for that (Search "Father's Day Gifts" on CNET for a father's day related tech article). HN is run by people like you and me. We're smart people and we typically post and up vote things that other hackers will appreciate. I tend to overlook birthdays and holidays when I am dealing with other things, and I appreciate the fact that someone was thoughtful enough to post a reminder for me.
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- axod 18y agoSpecial congrats to any founders with kids. It's hard work ;)
- senthil_rajasek 18y agohappy fathers day everyone ... remember you can always do something special like sending an e-card like this one :-) http://fb-ec2.happywishes.net/images/fathersday/png/ http://fb-ec2.happywishes.net/images/fathersday/png/ Thats all it takes and you can't beat the price ;-)
- ComputerGuru 18y agoDamn - why did you have to post it this early? It's going to slip off the front page before Sunday.... and I won't remember!
- ojbyrne 18y agoI'm hoping to get a job. Can't think of a better gift for my dad ;-)