Show HN: How many days until?
days.to
days.to
There's also a /since/ for each one.
A simple fix, use days.to/next/christmas and days.to/last/christmas. Clean URLs, and they make grammatical sense.
Originally, the site had exactly as you described with a cleaner url, but SEO had different ideas.
It would be extra cool if it considered each person's local timezone.
If you're counting to a date (without a particular time), you'll get the remaining time to midnight in your own timezone. If it's an event with a time, you'll see the start time of the event shown in your local timezone (but the countdown/remaining time will be same everywhere).
Anyway TV Shows episode calendar is really useful and I think it's a nice idea to have this information arranged in this way.
They send emails for new episodes, and also allow you to mark episodes as watched, which is great for working through archives.
I only wish they had something for movies as well.
I really should polish it up and release it. This is the second or third thread where other people have mentioned a similar need.
It's easy to create an account and mark your favorite shows so you get a custom calendar, or you can view a calendar with the overall most popular shows.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+until+doctor+stran...
For example: http://countdownmaker.com/countdown/3vnlvm/
* Is it necessary to go to a url when one clicks on an event? The amount of information displayed is tiny (date, event title, time until event) and it's a waste of screen space and time (now I have to go back to look at other things). It would be cool to show the information in a modal box and then continue to browse what's coming up.
* Okay, now I'm on days.to and I know that an event will take place in two months. Then what? I leave the site and in a few days, I forget about it. I think I stumbled upon an email feature but I couldn't find it again. It also has a calendar. Why? Would it be better to build on something a large number of people are already using and trusting to manage their daily lives? Something like Google Calendar or Facebook Events. Maybe using their API to insert an event into the already existing calendar. Even if I leave days.to, I can still see the positive it brought to my life and I'm more likely to come back.
* Maybe topics. I push in some interests. With enough users, it might start detecting certain patterns and starts showing me upcoming events resulting from the interests of people who share some of my interests. If I like music and painting, and you like music and theatre, it might show me theatre events and show you painting events.
Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback. Quite a lot of the feature suggestions made here, I am in the process of developing. The site was basically an MVP for a bigger app, which is why only a handful of events are in the events list.
Feel free to send any feedback via the site (feedback button in bottom right of site)
How would you go about doing that?
I would suggest looking for less computing intensive way to make the backgrounds work like they do now.
Either way, it's not a huge deal since I seldom watch the site for longer than those few seconds, but I have clicked the alternative links on Google a few times just to see if they would function any better.
I'll look at adding an option to allow users to disable the transitions.
The URL days.to is cool, but from a comprehension point of view if the event is more than a month away, should start using weeks, then months, then years.
Filtering by locale would be helpful
There is lots of open source data on astrological events: eclipses, NASA satellite fly by's, etc.
Gamification. Allow users to submit photos for each event and allow all users to vote them up and down. Props for users with most or best photos.
Or allow users best place to be on that particular event. Again, allow users to vote best up or down.
For instance:
gcal -N -q US_CA
tells you the days days left until each holiday in California, Usa.
Or find a niche like mountain bike, and list all the mountainbiking events
days.to/until/summer showed the days until summer ended. It was great!
Simple, to the point, beautiful.
days.to/until/summer(is Over)
Good job anyway! Looks really good.
The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".
It seems like a really odd point to bring up.
Optimizing for search rankings doesn't say anything directly about any given site, but it's generally a signal for low quality content that would not rank highly without such optimizations.
How so? I pointed it out because I think people in here are interested in SEO and I wanted to highlight that this page is a good example of effective SEO. They do things right.
It's obviously an SEO focused site so NOT bringing up SEO would be odd if anything. It's more or less why this site exists.
I didn't say it was bad.
> The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".
Yes, like it should. However, a lot of titles would be "good" but this is clearly constructed to fetch most of these kind of queries. You would think people search by using more condensen queries but I'm sure "how many days until X" has been researched and shown to be the most common way. People often ask their search engine like they're asking a real person, even if it's more verbose.
The reason for 2 events/pages are that they are tracking different events.
1) The day of the inauguration (start of the day) 2) The start time of the inauguration ceremony (12pm ET on the 20th).
The latter will allow you to count down the time to the start of the ceremony in your local timezone.