Show HN: JFDIN - Just Fucking Do It Now

by gnus • 13 years ago

63 84 13 years ago

gnus15• 13 years ago

How does this suck? Is it enough for you to use it on a daily basis? If no, what would you like this to have? Welcome any form of feedback!

oron• 13 years ago

This is great on so many levels :-) simple, focused and very nice design, I love it.

gnus15• 13 years ago

Cool! If people use this, we have a v2 which has some geeky 8-bit stuff.

unix-dude• 13 years ago

No lie, geeky 8-bit stuff would probably win me over instantly.

babuskov3• 13 years ago

Looking forward to it. When you read "only 12 minutes left" does not seem as dangerous as "the most significant bit in the counter integer, just flipped from 1 to 0"

BudVVeezer2• 13 years ago

Is there a way for me to get a link to a pre-configured JFDIN command? This would allow me to make a work item for entrenched coworkers and send it to them. ;-)

gnus15• 13 years ago

If enough people use this, we have plans to include additional logic to it (database, etc.) to make it more collaborative - definitely stay tuned if you like it and give us more feedback on what you would like to see!

blahpro2• 13 years ago

You could achieve this entirely statelessly (i.e. without a database) by encoding the task name in the URL. This is the sort of feature that could fuel growth by encouraging sharing :)

raheemm2• 13 years ago

Helping you get your shit together. Cause Clearly, You Can't

The snarky tagline actually works.

gnus15• 13 years ago

We all struggle and we like it too ;)

Colliwinks• 13 years ago

"Cause" is not a valid contraction for "Because." Looks fairly out of place in text.

wiremine2• 13 years ago

A few thoughts:

1. Great idea! I use Pomodoro a lot, and find it really helpful.

2. Honestly, I'm offending at the word Fuck and Shit, and I would never use a product that was swearing at me.

gnus15• 13 years ago

Point noted. During our brainstorming, we were trying to strike a balance between snarky and nice and thought to just post it up to see what people thought and iterate ;)

davidjgraph• 13 years ago

You must struggle to surf generally, in that case, without being offended. There are plenty of profanity blockers like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-profanity-f....

Surely, it makes more sense to install one, objecting to every occurrence of swearing is going to take up a lot of your time.

fusiongyro2• 13 years ago

There's a world of difference between "I fucking hate Javascript" and "Fuck you."

wiremine2• 13 years ago

I'm just giving honest feedback on the product: I think you're limiting the scope of the product by using words that offend some people. Given the upvotes, I don't think I'm alone.

shocks5• 13 years ago

You are offended? Then don't use the website. It is not your right to not be offended.

I think the swearing is brilliant.

JasonFruit• 13 years ago

You think the swearing itself is brilliant? I can see 'okay', or 'funny', but 'brilliant'?

raheemm2• 13 years ago

Strangely, I find the profanity motivating.

gprasanth• 13 years ago

   ((time/totaltime)*100).toFixed(2)

would be nice.

blahpro2• 13 years ago

I like it! I think the progress indicator in the title needs some rounding love, however:

    document.title = (100 * time / totaltime).toFixed(1) + "%";

babuskov3• 13 years ago

Agreed.

You might want to round() first, though:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726630/javascript-format...

gnus15• 13 years ago

Thank you all of HN.

kintamanimatt3• 13 years ago

It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer. I couldn't work out why making the text box lose focus didn't start it. I ended up having to read the source to figure it out!

Also, it'd be good if there would be a way to start a new task after clicking "I give up"!

Funny idea for a pomodoro timer!

gnus15• 13 years ago

LOL. We intentionally wanted to make the user feel like he/she is hopeless if he/she were to press "I give up" - ending it with a middle finger.

Game over.

kintamanimatt3• 13 years ago

I like you!

Mahn2• 13 years ago

> It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer.

It felt pretty natural to me. We've been entering text in a box and pressing enter after we are done for decades.

kintamanimatt3• 13 years ago

This is very true, but only if it's obvious that some data is supposed to be sent to the server, e.g. a search box. In my mind this pattern didn't apply because it was clear something was supposed to happen on the client, not the server, i.e. activate the timer. I presumed that causing the text box to lose focus would activate it.

I know I'm wrong, I just described my dozy error caused by what I perceived to be an anti-pattern.

neya3• 13 years ago

I love it! Please release an API for this! :D

davidchua5• 13 years ago

What kind of return data would interest you?

ghrev2• 13 years ago

Make Fucking Badass Just Fucking Do It Now API (FBJFDINAPI for short);

If I supply a string of text for a task, I need its ID.

Given an ID, I need the time remaining on the timer.

When the time reaches 0 on a given ID, I need a message to display to my users.

neya3• 13 years ago

When I fail to do something within the allotted time - I would love to see:

    {
        "my_custom_task_name": {
            "task_id": 124575,
            "result": "FUCK_YOU",
            "reason": "Time limit void"
        }
    }

shocks5• 13 years ago

Fantastic. I just stuck on some metal and got some shit done for 25 minutes, although I was a little disappointed when nothing happened at 00:00. :(

bfish510• 13 years ago

It should have some kind of :D emoticon and a question along the lines of "So what's next?"

shocks5• 13 years ago

Heh, perhaps prepending "Fuck yeah!" to the :D emoticon, to stick with the theme. :)

machbio• 13 years ago

I can just think of things that I can do in 25 Minutes.. #shame

babuskov3• 13 years ago

"can" or "can't" ?

dazbradbury• 13 years ago

Feature Request: Allow the use of a hashmark (or a different method) to pre-fill the user input, and auto-start the timer. Then you could send it to people who you want to get stuff done.

garretruh• 13 years ago

Definitely implement this. And add email notifications when the URL is clicked AND when the timer runs out.

davidchua5• 13 years ago

This sounds like a great idea!

How do you think we should allow users to input their e-mail addresses w/o cluttering too much of the page?

(p/s: I'm one of the developers working on this)

oinksoft• 13 years ago

Stuff like this screams the "brogrammer" stereotype to me. Strip the profanity and there's not much of a joke left.

smokeyj• 13 years ago

Thank god the top comment is critical of an obviously novel project. You just saved me some work!

rmrfrmrf• 13 years ago

Strip the profanity, and it's the pomodoro method.

gnus15• 13 years ago

We thought so too ✌

dscrd• 13 years ago

... but without the profanity.

MostAwesomeDude• 13 years ago

That's strange; all of the brogrammers that I know are pretty reasonable people. Sure, they dress strangely, tend to keep their hair in novel styles, have odd preferences for beverages, have quirky catchphrases that don't really make sense, are overwhelmingly men, and generally have problems fitting in at offices full of suits...

...but so do most hackers, right?

trendoid• 13 years ago

I need to see lists of tasks on which I fucked up and the ones I completed. Basically, I need to track my progress. And yes, customized timer obviously.

p.s. : More profanity will be appreciated, maybe customize option for that too.

gnus15• 13 years ago

Interesting... maybe we can even chart out for you the average number of f* ups vs success and do some data mining on this and suggest change (with more profanity).

ghrev2• 13 years ago

It needs to source profanity from urbandictionary.com in an intelligent way relative to the race, gender, age, and sexual preference of my users... all of which will not be optional on my JFDIN app.

serf• 13 years ago

It's a nice timer, but this recent casualization of the word 'fuck' is irritating, and I don't care to support it. It was in a ton of the blog headlines posted on this very site last year, and all it does is detract from the power of the word, while doing nothing to add an edge to your project. Sorry.

Nice timer, though. Find a real way to motivate the user without abuse and it'd be even cooler.

octo_t• 13 years ago

Oh no. People are swearing!

Woman, cover your ankles, you're inflaming my sexual ardour!

apawloski• 13 years ago

Assuming that the other parties are offended by the cursing is the common response to these criticisms. I don't think anyone is saying that they're actually bothered by it, but rather that pointless cursing like this is formulaic, worn-out, and generally lame.

jmduke• 13 years ago

all it does is detract from the power of the word

Isn't that a good thing?

duiker101• 13 years ago

Why would it be a good thing? It's not like it is such a bad thing that we must make it good at all costs. Some words are there to be used when they are needed.

bsoule• 13 years ago

Http://Beeminder.com takes it a step further and takes your lunch money too if you give up...

car54whereareu• 13 years ago

I think they use that word because of comedic value of the K sound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherently_funny_word). "Buick" might work too?

Hey author, please don't dilute our finite set of profane words. Inventing new ones is hard.

Mahn2• 13 years ago

Now all we are missing is a lengthy discussion here on HN about how to get things done properly.

Cthulhu_• 13 years ago

JFDIN? :+)

gnus15• 13 years ago

Now.. all we are saying, is JFDIN.

Properly can come later.

AndyKelley• 13 years ago

I typed in "Go to work", waited 5 seconds, and then pressed "Give up." I still haven't gone to work. How is this supposed to help?

kranner2• 13 years ago

It seems that some people want less profanity and some want more. It might be useful to let all the text on the page be user-editable. That way they can choose the exact phrase that would have the desired emotional impact on them (and anyway, why tight-couple the tech and the copy?)

For instance, my first language is Hindi, and English four-letter words just sort of slide over me without making much of a dent. I had to 'inspect element' on the h1.tagline containing 'Just F* Do It Now' and change that to something in Hindi before it really made sense. Good job, by the way.

espinchi• 13 years ago

My first thought was "good joke". But I think you're actually serious!

I think the key difference between this web app and just a timer is precisely the message. Some people find it funny that it uses some profanity. I were the author, I'd focus on those, and just accept the fact that they'll lose some users that would've liked a different choice of words.

kranner2• 13 years ago

I was being serious, but that's up to the author of course, if they do indeed want to focus on the (for lack of a better term) South Park enthusiasts.

timme• 13 years ago

So many tender souls that are awfully offended by someone using a bad word on the internet. The horror.

nkozyra2• 13 years ago

Probably less "offended" and more "unimpressed."

nkozyra2• 13 years ago

Finally, a timer.

On the Internet.

gnus15• 13 years ago

Well thanks for dropping by.

readymade• 13 years ago

OH WOW ANOTHER FUCKING PROJECT THAT USES PROFANITY IN IT'S NAME TO TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND COOL WHERE THE FUCK DO I SIGN UP

vanni• 13 years ago

I agree with you. But please, it's "its"... and don't scream.

gnus15• 13 years ago

Everybody is fighting. Peace ✌

patmcguire• 13 years ago

Don't know if you're seen http://writeordie.com/, it's mostly for papers. Just remembered it because if you don't write fast enough it starts eating your text.

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