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Show HN: My Permanent Cure for Boredom

43 points by Phileosopher 4y ago

hansword 4y ago
The design is so abhorrent ugly, I stopped after three clicks, before I got anywhere fun. If you want others to enjoy your toy, perhaps style it in a somewhat more "popular" way?
- kretaceous 4y ago
  While I agree it's bad, I think that's the whole point, no? > "Bad web design, worthwhile content" And it's true I guess. I'm finding a couple of interesting stuff to pass time. Good compilation, OP. Not sure about the reason for such a design.
  - Phileosopher 4y ago
    This project wasn't meant to be a serious endeavor, so I made the most godawful-but-usable UX possible for fun.
    - al_borland 4y ago
      I thought it was broken on mobile. I didn't realize I had to scroll out of frame to the right to see the results of what to actually do. The site scales to mobile right up until the last step... then nope. A+++
- rchaud 4y ago
  The "ugly" design is for signaling purposes IMO. These days a polished website promising "curated" anything is likely to be crawling with trackers and have a hideous "#1 on Product Hunt" emblem on it.
jhoelzel 4y ago
the design and the tld remind me of all the horros we produced on myspace and geocities :D
prometheus76 4y ago
The best cure for boredom is to cultivate tolerance for boredom by doing boring things without listening to music or watching youtube at the same time. Just sit there and draw or whittle or carve wood or do the dishes or play solitaire with a physical deck of cards. No music. No instagram. A small way to start this journey: don't take your phone in the bathroom. Don't read the shampoo bottle instead. Just sit there and do your business without being constantly stimulated. Try prayer or meditation. Eventually, you won't feel compelled to build Comic Sans eyesores to chase the anxiety away.
- kretaceous 4y ago
  Ignoring your last sentence, I agree with this. I learnt cubing and have been enjoying it as a break from tech/screens!
  - al_borland 4y ago
    >cubing Is that solving Rubik's cubes? I learned that during the downtime in 2020. Most of my speed gains from 10 minutes down to a minute or so came while mindlessly solving it over and over again while watching TV to build muscle memory. It didn't do a great job getting me away from screens. I didn't go crazy learning a million algorithms to get my times down below 1 minutes though. I have no ambitions to compete.
- Phileosopher 4y ago
  This was meant as a catharsis, not anything to legitimately "cure" boredom. In retrospect, I should have dropped the "permanent" portion of the post. I can't say I reflect well with meditation and prayer, but I'm now aware that it's bound heavily to my personality. Or, it could be that I don't think I spend a single day not having a niggling awareness of our inevitable end. Either way, it's not my scene.
  - prometheus76 4y ago
    Prayer and meditation help you deal with that exact anxiety. May you find peace in your journey.
Rovoska 4y ago
Atrocious design and readability.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Am I weird? I never get bored. My problem is that I don’t feel I have enough time and energy to do everything that I want to do. I have a bunch of things I want to learn, a bunch of side projects I want to complete, a bunch of books I want to read, one or two books I want to write. Trying to do all that while still working and caring for family and doing the day to day responsibilities makes me wish for more hours in a day.
- Hortinstein 4y ago
  I'm in this spot to. My backlog for programming projects I want to do alone is reaching steam backlog proportions. I also struggle to even keep a to-do list since new things are added daily for leisure activities.
- al_borland 4y ago
  This seems like a better problem to have. Over time you'll do a lot of cool stuff and have interesting things to talk about. I have stuff I would like to want to do. I've had stuff on my to do list of cool projects for years, but I rarely translate that into action to actually do them. The result of that is boredom or just killing time. I think part if it is that I don't think I'll have enough time, so I don't start. If I have a couple weeks off work, after 4-6 days of decompressing and accept that I have time, I'll usually start in on some kind of project. But with work I'm mostly just plugging in my battery to charge so I can do it again the next day.
loganc2342 4y ago
The site has good content; I particularly like the “useful” section. I won’t even complain about the design too much like some people, but just to give some feedback I think that the font used on the subcategories, links, and descriptions is difficult to read, especially when in all caps (e.g., FOR SCIENCE).
ritendn 4y ago
Wow, this has amazing websites here. Found inaturalist.org from here. Going to write an article on this.

43 points by Phileosopher 4y ago

The design is so abhorrent ugly, I stopped after three clicks, before I got anywhere fun. If you want others to enjoy your toy, perhaps style it in a somewhat more "popular" way?

kretaceous 4y ago
While I agree it's bad, I think that's the whole point, no? > "Bad web design, worthwhile content" And it's true I guess. I'm finding a couple of interesting stuff to pass time. Good compilation, OP. Not sure about the reason for such a design.
- Phileosopher 4y ago
  This project wasn't meant to be a serious endeavor, so I made the most godawful-but-usable UX possible for fun.
  - al_borland 4y ago
    I thought it was broken on mobile. I didn't realize I had to scroll out of frame to the right to see the results of what to actually do. The site scales to mobile right up until the last step... then nope. A+++
rchaud 4y ago
The "ugly" design is for signaling purposes IMO. These days a polished website promising "curated" anything is likely to be crawling with trackers and have a hideous "#1 on Product Hunt" emblem on it.

jhoelzel 4y ago

the design and the tld remind me of all the horros we produced on myspace and geocities :D

prometheus76 4y ago

The best cure for boredom is to cultivate tolerance for boredom by doing boring things without listening to music or watching youtube at the same time. Just sit there and draw or whittle or carve wood or do the dishes or play solitaire with a physical deck of cards. No music. No instagram. A small way to start this journey: don't take your phone in the bathroom. Don't read the shampoo bottle instead. Just sit there and do your business without being constantly stimulated. Try prayer or meditation. Eventually, you won't feel compelled to build Comic Sans eyesores to chase the anxiety away.

kretaceous 4y ago
Ignoring your last sentence, I agree with this. I learnt cubing and have been enjoying it as a break from tech/screens!
- al_borland 4y ago
  >cubing Is that solving Rubik's cubes? I learned that during the downtime in 2020. Most of my speed gains from 10 minutes down to a minute or so came while mindlessly solving it over and over again while watching TV to build muscle memory. It didn't do a great job getting me away from screens. I didn't go crazy learning a million algorithms to get my times down below 1 minutes though. I have no ambitions to compete.
Phileosopher 4y ago
This was meant as a catharsis, not anything to legitimately "cure" boredom. In retrospect, I should have dropped the "permanent" portion of the post. I can't say I reflect well with meditation and prayer, but I'm now aware that it's bound heavily to my personality. Or, it could be that I don't think I spend a single day not having a niggling awareness of our inevitable end. Either way, it's not my scene.
- prometheus76 4y ago
  Prayer and meditation help you deal with that exact anxiety. May you find peace in your journey.

Rovoska 4y ago

Atrocious design and readability.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago

Am I weird? I never get bored. My problem is that I don’t feel I have enough time and energy to do everything that I want to do. I have a bunch of things I want to learn, a bunch of side projects I want to complete, a bunch of books I want to read, one or two books I want to write. Trying to do all that while still working and caring for family and doing the day to day responsibilities makes me wish for more hours in a day.

Hortinstein 4y ago
I'm in this spot to. My backlog for programming projects I want to do alone is reaching steam backlog proportions. I also struggle to even keep a to-do list since new things are added daily for leisure activities.
al_borland 4y ago
This seems like a better problem to have. Over time you'll do a lot of cool stuff and have interesting things to talk about. I have stuff I would like to want to do. I've had stuff on my to do list of cool projects for years, but I rarely translate that into action to actually do them. The result of that is boredom or just killing time. I think part if it is that I don't think I'll have enough time, so I don't start. If I have a couple weeks off work, after 4-6 days of decompressing and accept that I have time, I'll usually start in on some kind of project. But with work I'm mostly just plugging in my battery to charge so I can do it again the next day.

loganc2342 4y ago

The site has good content; I particularly like the “useful” section. I won’t even complain about the design too much like some people, but just to give some feedback I think that the font used on the subcategories, links, and descriptions is difficult to read, especially when in all caps (e.g., FOR SCIENCE).

ritendn 4y ago

Wow, this has amazing websites here. Found inaturalist.org from here. Going to write an article on this.