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There are a number of online applications that allow you to create a timer that counts down to a specific date and time, but frankly, most of them suck. Enter the itsalmo st, appropriately named Web tool that allows you to quickly and easily create countdown essentially nothing (e.g. the day of judgment) and provides you with your custom URL to share with your friends.
Application, which has been hacked together last week, the type code is squeaky-clean and works as advertised (above shows a countdown to TechCrunch disrupt SF).
You can't tell from the screenshot, but the Strip at the bottom of the screen allows you to access all URL count, you have created, start a new or share it on Twitter or Facebook.
Several proposals for the guys who built it, to make it even better:
-There is a whole world outside the United States of America and the people who live there may also be interested in using your handy little tool. Perhaps users could be given the opportunity to change the settings in any way that they could note the date and time they are used.
-bar at the bottom is very difficult to see at first glance – try it up top, changing the color scheme to make it stand out and the default location, recognizable Twitter and Facebook sharing buttons underneath the timer once users have created countdown.
-Let people edit and thus to decide that the URL looks like.
-without touch clean look, consider some of the themes for people to customize their counters.
-consider making counters, embeddable and/or as spiffy widget.
You know you have an application that brings value when users want to see it improved. Nice work.
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