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

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

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

... but without the profanity.

We thought so too ✌

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?

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.

Oh no. People are swearing!

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

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.

Agreed. If the cursing is the only funny part of the joke, it gets old pretty quickly. In fact, it seems at this point it's the opposite of offensive. I'm mostly just bored.

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.

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

all it does is detract from the power of the word

Isn't that a good thing?

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.

Well, some call it reverse psychology. ✌

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

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

Agreed.

You might want to round() first, though:

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

Thank you all of HN.

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!

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.

I like you!

Seconded!

> 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.

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.

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.

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 ;)

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.

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.

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

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. One can be incredibly rude and 'offensive' without swearing.

Not sure how you wound up there. I'm pointing out that swearing to emphasize words is different from swearing at the user. I don't think the problem here is that the software has "Fuck You" and not "Screw You" floating over the middle finger pointing at the user, but that's exactly what David is implying with his disingenuous remark about installing a profanity blocker.

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

I think the swearing is brilliant.

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

Given the nature of the website I think it suits perfectly. All too often I just need to "get shit done" and this mirrors these feelings perfectly. A similar website without this "feeling" would make little to no impact. I think the swearing is the message here. The site itself is very simple and anyone here can replicate it's functionality in minutes with a few lines of code.

We all need a kick in the ass sometimes.

What can we say, except for JFDIN ✌

Strangely, I find the profanity motivating.

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!

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. ;-)

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!

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 :)

That's more what I was going for -- a nice, short URL I can send to someone.

What happens after you send it to your coworkers? Would you want to track whether your coworker gives up?

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. :(

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

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

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

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

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

The snarky tagline actually works.

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

We all struggle and we like it too ;)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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?

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.

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).

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.

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

"can" or "can't" ?

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

would be nice.

Finally, a timer.

On the Internet.

Well thanks for dropping by.

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

Now.. all we are saying, is JFDIN.

Properly can come later.

JFDIN? :+)

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

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

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"

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

Sneak preview:

(Drafted) consequences: Someone will die -> you will see a 8-bit character running towards you with a gun My girlfriend is going to leave me -> 8-bit girl running away from 8-bit boy I will start hurting myself -> 8-bit you carrying a knife...

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

What kind of return data would interest you?

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.

Definitely putting this into v2!

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"
        }
    }

But how would it return this JSON to you? Through a callback URL specified?

Yeah, that's what I had in mind. So if you POST this to a particular URL, I can probably do something - Send a text to my phone or send myself an E-mail, etc..

Edit: And please ignore the other comments asking you to stop with the profanity, etc. Clearly, those people aren't your target audience, but we are. If anyone feels offended, I think it's fair they don't use your service at all, than complain about it...

Everybody is fighting. Peace ✌

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

Probably less "offended" and more "unimpressed."

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