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Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up.\n\nIt works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen su",{"problem":49,"audience":55,"pricing":67,"motivation":9,"time_to_build":9,"stack":79,"openness":80,"stage":81,"team_size":82},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Tracking elapsed time without needing precise numeric countdowns","maker",[53],{"id":54},"post",{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"Mac users who want a subtle visual timer","inferred",[59,63],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"5484044","jpettersson","Great work! This will be my first attempt at a timer based approach to task management. I've been meaning to give it a try for a while and this UI was just too neat to not try.",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"5485003","jops","Excellent! Thank you for making this. Visual timer's are so much more useful than numeric ones. A suggestion: Could you add an option (if possible) to have the narrow line on the…",{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Paid on Mac App Store, with promo codes given away","commenter",[71,75],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"5483944","Jackim","He's got it on the Mac App Store, giving away a few copies.",{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"5484107","richo","Thankyou! The app looked well and truly worth the $3 so I just bought it, but good to know for next time.",[],"paid","launched","unknown",{"praise":84,"objections":111,"requests":130,"questions":153,"alternatives":164},[85,100],{"value":86,"source":69,"evidence":87},"Clever, unobtrusive visual use of the menu bar",[88,92,96],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"5483869","pyvek","Very clever use of the menubar to show timer progress. Blends in nicely without any distraction.",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"5484115","kcoop","Nicely unobtrusive. And the approach of showing progress rather than a pedantic number is a clever innovation - much more relevant for many uses. Is there a way to pause it?",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"5483847","jarin","This is simple but awesome. I like this way better than my current pomodoro timer. I left a review. I don't want to see the app all bloated up or anything, but an audible alarm…",{"value":101,"source":69,"evidence":102},"Snooze button and UI praised",[103,107],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"5484230","amartya916","Indeed the UI is quite nice; liked the snooze button too. Do you know if iOS supports anything similar? I know that it allows for app specific colours for the status bar, but…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"5484519","kawera","I just bought it; great idea and execution! Some feedback: - Pause: say I set it to two hours and sometime later a client rings and we have a 30min conversation. 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To run through 'em: * Timebar actually compensates for sleep, so if you set an 8 hour timer at 12 PM, it will finish at 8 PM even if your computer was…",{"id":195,"text":196},"5484250","Yes, definitely still under development and support! It supports Mountain Lion. 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