This can easily be done using the program BitBar. <a href="https://github.com/matryer/bitbar" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/matryer/bitbar</a>
Nice! I made a website like this years ago inspired by a thing I saw on HN called the memento mori (remember, you are dying!) :)<p><a href="http://moriclock.com/" rel="nofollow">http://moriclock.com/</a>
Why the marketing line "this is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"? I don't mean to be rude, but it's kind of an aphorism, and a morbid one at that. But I see people whom I respect making this observation. I'm sincerely wondering why pointing out the obvious is important
Don’t hear the naysayers, $5 is a good price for it, frankly $4 would be even better not because it’s cheaper in so much as it’s less than a round number that could be used as a mental barrier.<p>I can imagine a lot of non techie creatives using this to keep focused on long projects.
I don’t get why you’d reference ‘OS X’ in the title when that name was retired years ago. I assumed this was an app that had been around for a while yet the domain was registered just yesterday.<p>Also, I don’t know about anyone else but I find ‘Progress Bar’ as an app name to be really vague. I wouldn’t know it was a year progress widget without visiting the site.<p>P.s. you’re welcome to my genius naming idea ‘Year Progress macOS’.
I really love this idea and greatly appreciate the brevity in implementation, the sales pitch, and the landing page. If I had one suggestion it would be a slightly different visual treatment so as to not conflate it with battery percentage so easily. Maybe small clock icon in the middle of the bar or something.
I don't mind the 'business model' (I think it's a bit rich to be asking $5 for this, but then you're asking $5 from people who spent $2000-4000 on a laptop).
What I do mind a bit is how depressing it seems - I guess I don't want to be reminded about impending death all the time...
Just found this little gem for Android that allows you to have progress bars like these as a launcher widget.<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.donationcoder.pbol" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.donationco...</a>
Those that find this interesting might also want to check out Mortality, a chrome extension.<p>It replaces the default new tab window with a count down and has the ability to set it based on your expected death date based on your stats.<p>I've got 19494 days 14 hours and 53 minutes to go.<p>I find it motivating.
1 point by andreyazimov 5 hours ago [-]<p>Hi HN,
I am a big fan of Year Progress tweets but I want to see not only year I want to see month and day progress as well in minimal OS X menu bar with a cool progress bar.<p>Demo: <a href="https://www.progressbarosx.com/1.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.progressbarosx.com/1.jpg</a>, <a href="https://www.progressbarosx.com/2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.progressbarosx.com/2.jpg</a>, <a href="https://www.progressbarosx.com/3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.progressbarosx.com/3.jpg</a>, <a href="https://www.progressbarosx.com/4.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.progressbarosx.com/4.jpg</a>, <a href="https://www.progressbarosx.com/demo.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://www.progressbarosx.com/demo.mp4</a>
Very cool. Reminds me of <a href="https://twitter.com/progressbar201x" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/progressbar201x</a>
I was hoping that this would patch in with the OSX system progress bars and sum up the total amount of time waiting for something to happen on your computer. I always thought that progress bars were just a waste of life.