[HN Gopher] Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
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Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
Author : jonathancai11
Score : 18 points
Date : 2020-04-30 00:00 UTC (22 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (whattime.today)
(TXT) w3m dump (whattime.today)
| somehelpful wrote:
| I get off-my-one for the month (3/30 for today, 30th of April) in
| Safari on iOS
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| You are right! Can't believe I didn't notice this until now..
| I'll take a look. Thanks for pointing this out!
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| Fixed.. Apparently Javascript Date objects index months by 0.
| Stupid on my part for not noticing until now
| [deleted]
| cuddlybacon wrote:
| All I see is a blank white page on Safari 13.1
| zvr wrote:
| Interesting -- congrats on building it!
|
| Further possible enhancements:
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| - more timezones
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| - week starting on Monday
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| - hide weekend
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| - every generated time is a link to
| timeanddate/worldclock/something that can automatically convert
| it to other timezones
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback!
|
| 1. Added some more timezones, but not yet comprehensive I guess
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| 2. Added work_week option for desktop
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| 3. Same as 2
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| 4. Maybe in the future? But I think my original goal was to
| avoid links so you can send self-contained availabilities in an
| email to someone
| netsharc wrote:
| On the topic of week starts, US calendars is funny because it
| starts on Sunday. European calendars start on Monday. In some
| Muslim countries they have Fridays, Saturdays off, and I
| guess they work again on Sunday. Welcome to dealing with
| time! I'm sure you've also read:
| https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-
| program... . I guess a logical option would be to have 2
| options: "Start week on [Weekday]" (using a dropdown chooser)
| and "Show [n] days" (some people maybe want a 6-day week, and
| others just a 3-day one!).
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| I noticed the "Copy" button generates a copy-pastable text. I
| was half expecting an encoded URL that one could share with
| people, they'd open this URL in their browser and see what
| the user just entered. For me at least it's easier to see a
| graphical calendar rather than trying to parse entries like
| "Friday May 1, 8:00-10:00."
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| The data doesn't even have to be stored server-side, you
| could encode the times and generate a URL with a "#", which
| the app would then decode so it could render the calendar
| with the markings.
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| The article looks interesting, I'll have a read sometime.
|
| Also, the URL to send the encoded calendar is a great idea!
| I've thought about doing that before, but focused on just
| creating the message because I thought users would rather
| just get the text and be done with the site, but I think
| I'll implement it and see if people use it
| __initbrian__ wrote:
| Cool project! Great work. I think this perfectly fits the send me
| your availability niche. When working with groups, I've used
| when2meet[0]
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| [0] https://www.when2meet.com/
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, this definitely doesn't solve the group
| scheduling problem like when2meet does. I think its also a bit
| frustrating to tab back and forth between my Google calendar
| page and the when2meet event to fill it out, maybe they should
| integrate also!
| moltar wrote:
| The title confused me. I thought the summary would expressed in
| seconds, like Unix epoch time.
| __initbrian__ wrote:
| +1 I was thinking the same thing. Maybe an alternative title
| "Show HN: Quickly summarize your availability"
| netsharc wrote:
| Same here, I thought it'd be a productivity tool that would
| rapidly count down and make me aware "You only have this many
| seconds left budgeted for [_____]". I was looking for the "Go!"
| button I thought I'd have to click after adding at least 1
| thing to the calendar.
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| Hey guys, when people ask to schedule a
| meeting/interview/whatever, I've always found it hard to respond
| with a list of time availabilities.
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| I always tabbed back and forth between my Google calendar to
| construct a message that accurately listed my free time, but this
| was painful.
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| My site helps me do this small task, and I wanted to see if
| anyone else had this same problem, had some feedback for me, or
| if there were any other simple solutions and I've wasted my time
| building this crap.
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| Note: I've yet to have my app verified by Google, so if you wish
| to import your own Google calendar on to my site, the consent
| screen will look sketchy.
| throwaway888abc wrote:
| Handy, bookmarked, thank you
| lihaciudaniel wrote:
| Looks good I don't think anyone would care about my schedule
| abrichr wrote:
| Congrats on shipping! I've been thinking about building something
| similar to scratch my own itch. I think ideally it would generate
| availability for an arbitrary time span, e.g a week.
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| Also, I didn't end up trying it due to the sketchy consent screen
| you mentioned. Maybe there's a lower friction way to get
| someone's schedule, e.g. screenshot?
| jonathancai11 wrote:
| Thanks! And yeah, a part of me wishes I waited for Google
| verification to post.. I'm too impatient for their "4-6 weeks"
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