Tell HN: I made a minimalist timer. Launching today.

minutestocountdown.com

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I don't see why you have to do a postback to start the timer. I should be javascript only in my opinion.

Oh! I didn't see that the time was in the url so that you can launch it just by having the right url. Maybe you could try using a way that is url and javascript friendly like a hashtag?

Maybe - but I find it handy to be able to use the browser's URL autocomplete to fill these in for me. That is, I type "5" and firefox pops up with 5.minutestocountdown.com and I can just hit enter to start it.

However, if you are someone who rarely uses the same timer, you would always have to type .minutestocountdown.com after your time because the browser wouldn't know the url yet. I guess it all depends on what use people will make out of it.

Very similar to steep.it. I like the idea.

And http://e.ggtimer.com/, which powers steep.it and is less tea related.

does the job. ui doesn't look too great though.

why so small? countdown time should take up entire screen.

I thought people might want to use the site on a mobile device, so I bought a mobile theme from themeforest for $9. Turns out it isn't easy to find a minimalist site template that works well on both mobile and desktop browsers. Let me know if you know of any! I'm not a designer :-)

familiar with html and css?

you could design the page to be completely fluid and use up to 100% of the screen width.

then use the meta viewport tag and/or media queries to size the page for mobiles. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/combining_me...

used the technique here, only difference is i set max-width http://concertsto.com

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