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Show HN: I do nothing in my dayjob for 95% of the Time so I made this

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I had the problem of having a boring office job, where im not busy at all, i sit in an office and my bosses keep walking around. And i also enjoy scrolling (twitter) . So to fix this i made a simple free Chrome Extension to make it look like a PDF file. And here i made a little landing page for it. (am proud btw) : https://xdisguise.com/

So i made this :)

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Love this idea. Very funny and well done!

Fun fact: back in ye olden days (90s, early 00s), we used to call these "boss keys," where you could hit a key on your keyboard while playing a game, and the UI would switch to a spreadsheet or document, so that as your boss walked by, it looked like you were working, but once they were gone, you could hit another key and jump right back into Quake or Hexen or Command & Conquer or whatever. Haven't seen an app with a boss key in a long time, and I think they're due to come back!

I’m gonna be honest. This kinda just looks like Twitter on a PDF. Which I guess is the point but with how many images and media is on Twitter it’s hard to be inconspicuous lol

Thank you for the feedback! You can toggle the ui and images with keyboard shortcuts :)

Seems like a problem with your feed - lots of text posts here.

I've seen better versions of this where they take a website and put it into excel or google docs, so it looks like they are working on a document.

Cool - i didnt find those :) I like my lightweight version for myself

Do you need an assistant where you work? I think you do, please send me HR's email!! :-P

There should be a version for the terminal which looks like logs.

That feels like a Hackathon idea, so fun. It's inspiring to me.

Thanks :) Get cracking on your ideas ;)

This is very cool in terms of idea and realisation

Thank you :)

one of the reviews is doesnt work. Is it a troll or is it supposed to fail every once a while ?

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Hahaha, bro, you are so interesting, it seems like you are really free!

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