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Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

37 points by christinang89 11y ago

therobot24 11y ago
i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc
- christinang89 11y ago
  that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!
- christinang89 11y ago
  fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)
  - therobot24 11y ago
    i like it. simple and effective.
ultrafez 11y ago
This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :) (not having a go - just made me chuckle!)
- christinang89 11y ago
  :) i had fun building it! slightly off tangent though, building it via flask backend was a pain. on hindsight, i'd probably have used node instead.
  - viraptor 11y ago
    Why was it a pain?
mettamage 11y ago
I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.
- christinang89 11y ago
  i actually noticed a lot of people downvoting "excuses" and decided to switch the positions of the vote up and down buttons. Previously, the vote up was on the left and down on the right. I'm curious to see if the votes will now swing the other way ;)
  - seba_dos1 11y ago
    Probably not. I have "downvoted" bunch of them to just see the next one, until I realized that I'm really downvoting them.
    - selmo 11y ago
      I did the exact same thing...Now I feel bad because I down voted some awesome ones.
prawn 11y ago
For anyone who doesn't recognise the term and is too lazy to click through, WFH = working from home.
wyc 11y ago
Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)
phantom_oracle 11y ago
I added mine but can't keep track of it. If anyone sees 1 about office hygiene and taking a dump, please share the URL, as I think it is quite valid and would like to track its progress.
- christinang89 11y ago
  Here you go - http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 :)
  - phantom_oracle 11y ago
    you're a superstar! Edit: Looks like I'm down to -1 now. I think either bots are randomly pressing buttons, your voting is rigged (or ran()dom) or my suggestion just sucked :) Nice work building it though.
    - christinang89 11y ago
      I did notice a few ips voting excessively. I don't think they are bots, probably just trolls. I should implement ip limits. I had too much faith in the Internet - Evidently I'm wrong :p
      - kdevrou 11y ago
        Giving visitors a vote button will shake your faith in the internet. Giving unregistered visitors a text field that doesn't require approval before being listed, that's just downright dangerous! :P
        christinang89 11y ago
        it actually requires approval before it is shown to others ;) making it seem like it was listed when u submit it is a "feel good" thing. of course, if users figure out the quoteid of the specific submission, it is still publicly available. its all in the name of fun :)
miralabs 11y ago
this reminds me of http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl
bencxr 11y ago
interesting to see how some of these have received huge numbers of downvotes.. e.g. this one: http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7 http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7
stephenr 11y ago
This is not the sort of thing that helps the Remote working movement in the slightest. If anything it reinforces the negative connotations management types already have about remote working.

37 points by christinang89 11y ago

i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc

christinang89 11y ago
that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!
christinang89 11y ago
fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)
- therobot24 11y ago
  i like it. simple and effective.

ultrafez 11y ago

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :) (not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

christinang89 11y ago
:) i had fun building it! slightly off tangent though, building it via flask backend was a pain. on hindsight, i'd probably have used node instead.
- viraptor 11y ago
  Why was it a pain?

mettamage 11y ago

I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.

christinang89 11y ago
i actually noticed a lot of people downvoting "excuses" and decided to switch the positions of the vote up and down buttons. Previously, the vote up was on the left and down on the right. I'm curious to see if the votes will now swing the other way ;)
- seba_dos1 11y ago
  Probably not. I have "downvoted" bunch of them to just see the next one, until I realized that I'm really downvoting them.
  - selmo 11y ago
    I did the exact same thing...Now I feel bad because I down voted some awesome ones.

prawn 11y ago

For anyone who doesn't recognise the term and is too lazy to click through, WFH = working from home.

wyc 11y ago

Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)

phantom_oracle 11y ago

I added mine but can't keep track of it. If anyone sees 1 about office hygiene and taking a dump, please share the URL, as I think it is quite valid and would like to track its progress.

christinang89 11y ago
Here you go - http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 :)
- phantom_oracle 11y ago
  you're a superstar! Edit: Looks like I'm down to -1 now. I think either bots are randomly pressing buttons, your voting is rigged (or ran()dom) or my suggestion just sucked :) Nice work building it though.
  - christinang89 11y ago
    I did notice a few ips voting excessively. I don't think they are bots, probably just trolls. I should implement ip limits. I had too much faith in the Internet - Evidently I'm wrong :p
    - kdevrou 11y ago
      Giving visitors a vote button will shake your faith in the internet. Giving unregistered visitors a text field that doesn't require approval before being listed, that's just downright dangerous! :P
      - christinang89 11y ago
        it actually requires approval before it is shown to others ;) making it seem like it was listed when u submit it is a "feel good" thing. of course, if users figure out the quoteid of the specific submission, it is still publicly available. its all in the name of fun :)

miralabs 11y ago

this reminds me of http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

bencxr 11y ago

interesting to see how some of these have received huge numbers of downvotes.. e.g. this one: http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7 http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7

stephenr 11y ago

This is not the sort of thing that helps the Remote working movement in the slightest. If anything it reinforces the negative connotations management types already have about remote working.