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

by christinang89 • 11 years ago

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therobot242• 11 years 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

christinang897• 11 years ago

that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!

christinang897• 11 years ago

fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)

therobot242• 11 years ago

i like it. simple and effective.

ultrafez• 11 years ago

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :)

(not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

christinang897• 11 years 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• 11 years ago

Why was it a pain?

mettamage• 11 years 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.

christinang897• 11 years 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• 11 years ago

Probably not. I have "downvoted" bunch of them to just see the next one, until I realized that I'm really downvoting them.

prawn• 11 years ago

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

wyc• 11 years ago

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

phantom_oracle2• 11 years 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.

christinang897• 11 years ago

Here you go - http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 :)

phantom_oracle2• 11 years 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.

miralabs• 11 years ago

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

bencxr• 11 years ago

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

stephenr• 11 years 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.

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

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