Stretch My Time Off
Productivity
vacation planning
SHOW HN2024
358points
174comments
#139of 3,515 in 2024
Top 4%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
20 positive, 46 neutral or asking, 9 mixed, 25 critical, out of 100 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 10 for, 9 againstExecution: 5 for, 12 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for planning vacations around holidays and kids' school breaks
From 3 comments
This is a great idea for something I typically do manually to plan around maximizing vacation time around when my kids have off. Would recommend being able to adjust the public…
shmoogy on HNVery useful app, especially for kids holidays. I live in Bavaria, Germany and the holidays are different from other regions. I really like the app and hope you will continue to…
8mobile on HNWould be interesting if you can also factor in a school schedule or Jewish holidays as well. There are probably other layers you could add because school schedules in the US and…
zerkten on HN
Holiday data is largely correct for several countries
From 2 comments
Very nice. All the holidays look correct. Covers most of the tricks people here (New Zealand) use to stretch out their Holiday lengths.
slyall on HNI love this! Every year in Sweden around christmas, almost all popular magazines publish articles for how to optimally book your vacation days. We have quite a few bank days…
bittermandel on HN
Impressive for being built with a code assistant
From 1 comment
Hey, that's an impressive site for being built using a code assistant. I was wondering where you got the list of countries from or whether you're using a library for the…
jorisnoo on HN
Objections
Stretch count overstates extra days off, counting weekends already adjacent to holidays
From 4 comments
Congrats ! However I feel the claim is lying to me and inconsistant: « In […], there are 11 public holidays in 2024. Let's stretch your time off from 25 days to 61 days » 61…
aziaziazi on HNWell done! Though it oversells it a bit. Check japan for instance you get 10 holidays a year, and it says you'll be able to stretch it to 51 days. Which is true to some extent.…
shinryuu on HNNice tool! Some feedback: - The subtitle telling me I can "stretch [my] time off from 20 days to 42 days" is quite misleading. This tool doesn't magically give me more vacation…
amsterdorn on HNSomething is strange in the math for "Let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days" I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says:…
whaaaaat on HN
Missing holidays and wrong regional holiday data (e.g. Sweden, company-specific days)
From 3 comments
Cool project! Some regional feedback coming from Sweden - your source data set is not 100% in line with what most workers in Sweden will get. For example, 24 December, 31…
occz on HNReally neat idea! However, half of the world has Monday as the first day of the week. A setting to change that would be nice :) Also there are some holidays missing for Sweden.…
spzzz on HNLike others have mentioned, being able to toggle which days are holidays would make this useful. I get (8) holidays each year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day,…
quickthrowman on HN
Gives only one result with no way to choose among equally good options
From 2 comments
This seems like the start of something handy, but isn't yet useful. As others have mentioned, which holidays a company offers will vary. But more than that, given a number of…
abeppu on HNThanks for your feedback! Indeed the algorithm only gives one result, as it tries to fill all gaps from smallest to biggest in the best way possible to create clusters. Making it…
zachd on HN
Travel during public holidays is costly, so optimal days may be the wrong ones
From 2 comments
I typically try to take annual leave and to travel exactly on the opposite dates to what this tool recommends. That's because I care more about avoiding the significant extra…
jaza on HNA much simpler way to do this is to move to a country or join a company where you get a lot of vacation days, and then you don't need to worry about it.
onion2k on HN
Requests
Customizable work week and holiday lists, including company-specific days
From 4 comments
This is really cool! I might use this to help plan some of my 2025 vacations Some suggestions for useful features: - Ability to customize the work week. I only work Mon-Thurs,…
Micanthus on HNFun tool! I'd love for the "Edit List" menu to allow me to add company holidays to factor those into the maximization
bobmagoo on HNLike others have mentioned, being able to toggle which days are holidays would make this useful. I get (8) holidays each year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day,…
quickthrowman on HNVery cool! It would be helpful if you just made a list of holidays we could check off. Im going to use this!
ct0 on HN
Pick a date range or count only remaining days in the year
From 3 comments
Would love to see a "use X days off between now and the end of the year" feature. Putting in the amount of PTO I've currently got gets shown for the whole year instead of just…
linuxguy2 on HNNice idea, but I was a little surprised that now, in November, it would give me a default of 20 days for this year. Maybe a checkbox "starting today/tomorrow" would make it a lot…
wink on HNThis is really cool! I might use this to help plan some of my 2025 vacations Some suggestions for useful features: - Ability to customize the work week. I only work Mon-Thurs,…
Micanthus on HN
Consider school holidays and avoid peak travel periods
From 3 comments
Would be interesting if you can also factor in a school schedule or Jewish holidays as well. There are probably other layers you could add because school schedules in the US and…
zerkten on HNNice idea, but it seems that for some countries the longest possible time off has a big overlap with school holidays, which makes sense. However travelling during school breaks…
vander_elst on HNVery useful app, especially for kids holidays. I live in Bavaria, Germany and the holidays are different from other regions. I really like the app and hope you will continue to…
8mobile on HN
Show alternative options or weight months and block spacing
From 3 comments
I'd like to add some more constraints, like "I'd like to maximize my time off around christmas", where you can see different alternatives e.g. using 3 days off, you get 7…
alkonaut on HNThis is pretty cool. I've organically done something similar for many years (i.e. tried to optimize leave to coincide with public holidays to get those extra long weekends.) If…
enasterosophes on HNNice work! I once launched stretchyourannualleave[dot]com on PH https://www.producthunt.com/products/stretch-your-annual-leave#stretch-your-annual-leave and also here…
leonagano on HN
Fix year start and carry-over leave balance
From 1 comment
Awesome idea, some suggestions (to fit my use case) My annual leave resets on April 1st, so being able to change the year would be handy. I worked compressed hours (I have every…
sksksk on HN
Questions
How the site was built and how much Cursor was used
From 1 comment
It's interesting all the comments are focused on the functionality and not on how it was built. Can you write some more on the experience? You say it was "a fun challenge." Would…
hasbot on HN
Where the country list comes from
From 1 comment
Hey, that's an impressive site for being built using a code assistant. I was wondering where you got the list of countries from or whether you're using a library for the…
jorisnoo on HN
Alternatives named
stretchyourannualleave
From 1 comment
Nice work! I once launched stretchyourannualleave[dot]com on PH https://www.producthunt.com/products/stretch-your-annual-leave#stretch-your-annual-leave and also here…
leonagano on HN
Manual planning in spreadsheets or mentally
From 2 comments
Interesting idea but I do not see the point: people are able to compute the same results mentally very easily. By the way, I would suggest adding an option: how many consecutive…
cgarrigue on HNAwesome! That reminds me of my paternity leave which I turned into basically working 3 days per week for a long time with some special considerations around holidays. There is…
jokethrowaway on HN