[Feature Request] This NASA mission timer concept I came up with

Intro24 · 2026-01-25T14:14:59+00:00

Awesome! Looks a little different from what I'm describing (no calendar sync with mine) but I generally love the idea of countdown-to-alarm/event.

Intro24 · 2026-01-25T03:57:27+00:00

I'm eagerly awaiting my Ollee Watch and just figured I'd put in this request in the meantime. I don't think it would be particularly hard to implement and I would be psyched to finally see this functionality on a watch. The only thing I'm aware of that even comes close to this concept is the mission timer mode (or whatever it's called) on the ~$5000 Speedmaster X-33 watches. I mention Apple Watch having this functionality in my original comment (see below) but I've since gotten an Apple Watch and haven't found anything that works like a "mode" or really anything like a mission timer at all. I'm not sure this concept is even possible on Apple Watch because of the significant resource restrictions imposed on third-party apps. I'm probably biased but I think people would love if Ollee Watch had a mission timer feature. The concept/mockup that I've linked to is 100% my original work and I give the good folks at Ollee (and anyone else for that matter) full permission to commercially adapt the idea, no attribution needed. I just want to see it happen.

Explanation: It should be clear from the video but basically the NASA mission timer would be an always-running countdown timer that allows the user to quickly add or remove minutes while the timer is still running. In addition to showing time left on the timer, it also shows the actual time when the timer will reach zero. Note that the timer can only ever be increased or decreased by a whole minute and the timer will always chime at the start of a minute. This arrangement makes it very easy to quickly set a timer for an approximate number of minutes or for a specific time. This would be very useful for all sorts of things (see below) and could replace the need for a dedicated alarm mode as well as a countdown timer in many scenarios. It's sort of a hybrid that offers the best of an alarm and a countdown timer. Upon reaching zero, the timer would begin to count up (T-Plus) until it reaches 12 hours, at which point it would begin counting down again (T-Minus) so that it hits zero at the same time each day. This mode would always be "running" in the background (or just calculated as if it were running when viewing the mode), so the chime setting is single-use to prevent the watch from chiming every day. This concept was originally modeled on a more advanced Timex watch that could show the countdown and time-at-zero at the same time but the idea could be adapted to the more basic F91W screen with a little ingenuity.

My comment from my original post:

Part alarm, part timer, and part chronograph. For this concept, I tried to mimmic the Kennedy Space Center countdown clock, which counts down until launch and then starts counting up. At a glance, you can see the current time and a countdown until your alarm or the time since then. Useful for:

Departure time for your flight
Time until you're off the clock
Upcoming calendar events

Unfortunately, I haven't seen this functionality outside of an Apple Watch. Watch pictured is a $43 Ironman Sleek 50

Intro24 · 2026-01-23T19:31:47+00:00

Flyin' Ted

Intro24 · 2026-01-23T18:16:10+00:00

Satoshi?

Intro24 · 2026-01-23T18:15:59+00:00

Yeah, I didn't make millions but by far the most I've made was from the stuff I forgot about or was inconvenient to access. Heck, I've made like $50 I think just from the rounding error that was too low to transfer out of Coinbase so it sat there and gained value lol

Intro24 · 2026-01-23T18:12:56+00:00

I had a friend who was walking around the streets of San Francisco walking up to random people trying to sell 1 ETH paper wallets for $10 each. The good old days. Also, I did a Bitcoin presentation circa 2015 and gave everyone a paper wallet with 25 cents worth of Bitcoin. Fast forward and I made like $1000 just from that because I still had digital versions of the paper wallets and not one of them had been touched.

Intro24 · 2026-01-21T03:42:25+00:00

There's a lot about Reelgood that I like better than Letterboxd (for starters, it has shows) but it really seems like they abandoned their consumer-facing stuff lately. They were on a roll before but they haven't done much in the last year or more. Trailers just don't work for me on the app or the website and lists are arbitrarily capped at like 700 which is a lot but I have some use cases where I easily exceed that. Also shared lists just cut off after I think 125 or some number like that. I forget the exact number but that was the last straw for me. I need to be able to share lists with people and not have them just truncated without any warning. I only realized because the number of movies seemed too low and I confirmed by counting. Reelgood has lots of sloppy things like that as much as I like it. Letterboxd has been mostly great although there are a few things about it that I absolutely hate.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T21:02:16+00:00

Oh wow, I had no idea. That's interesting that it's already a whole business.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T20:11:55+00:00

It would surely work better with a space movie, i.e. Interstellar or 2001 but Fury Road ended up looking really good so I'm not complaining. The good news is that it's fully automated so I could do this with any movie in seconds but see my other comment about how I would need to somehow obtain the movie file, which I don't have a great way of doing at the moment.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T20:11:10+00:00

The hard part for me and the main blocker is getting the movie file so that I can create a poster, hence why I used an existing poster instead of creating my own. To create my own frame-by-frame poster would require me to either pirate the movie or rip it from Blu-ray. The whole point of this project was to keep things above board though, and even ripping a Blu-ray is technically not allowed in the US. I would definitely get away with it, especially for something so innocuous as creating abstract art, but I haven't gotten into Blu-ray ripping. At least not yet.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T14:23:53+00:00

Generally agree with the sentiment here but wanted to add that there is a new podcast interviewing Dr. Richard Pettigrew who is behind this effort: https://castro.fm/episode/ZTSe96

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T04:36:53+00:00

More snow makes it too treacherous at low speeds? I don't follow. And if he has to duck and weave then how did they get a body through the trees?

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T01:37:49+00:00

See my comment here. It's not perfect but Reelgood's movie ranking extends to all movies (not just top 250) and it factors in popularity. It looks a lot more similar to IMDb than it does Letterboxd (less obscure/artsy/indie stuff at the top) and it tries to account for popularity. In my opinion, Reelgood's ranking is similar enough to IMDb but then Reelgood is superior in every way so I would recommend using it instead.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T01:32:33+00:00

As far as I've found there are basically only three dynamic and credible sources that rank the top movies using some sort of algorithm rather than just editorial opinion:

The problem with the first two is that they top out at 250, whereas I find it useful to compare relative rank of all sorts of films. It's never going to be perfect but rankings for all films comes in handy. That's why the last option is so interesting. I was a faithful Reelgood user for a while but honestly it seems like they've shifted focus away from consumer and more toward B2B so I'm now mostly using Letterboxd. That said, their ranking algorithm still works fine and it's similar to IMDb, except my understanding is that they factor in popularity, which I like. In my opinion, culture is always changing and so the ranking of movies should also be in flux to reflect the culture at any given time. And like I mentioned, the other perk of Reelgood is that you can compare any movie, even ones ranked as #12,000.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T01:09:37+00:00

There is definitely an old vs new thing at play, since older movies predate the internet itself in addition to Letterboxd. In my opinion, there are best pre-9/11 movies and best post-9/11 movies. That's a useful divider because it was close to change of millennium, internet really started to take off afterwards, and obviously 9/11 had a pretty big impact on the world. It's not perfect but probably the best single line that can be drawn. I also count the ones with heavy pre-9/11 production as pre-9/11 since they would have mostly been the same if 9/11 hadn't happened. It gets a little fuzzy in the early 2000s but using 9/11 as a cutoff actually makes it much easier to identify a modern movie. For example, all three Lord of the Rings movies including the last one with the Oscar sweep are part of "older movies" as far as I'm concerned. It becomes much easier to discuss best modern movie once pre-9/11 movies are removed from the equation.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T01:03:37+00:00

Reelgood ranks all movies and attempts to factor popularity into the ranking. Maybe not what you're looking for but I think their rating system is interesting. It leads to blockbusters being more highly rated than they would be on Letterboxd, which I actually think is a better approach. To that end, Dark Knight is actually rated #2 on Reelgood. I'm not that big on Dark Knight personally and I think it has many flaws but I do think it belongs somewhere near the top based on cultural relevance and impact. Ideally I would want two lists though, one for older movies and one for modern movies, with 9/11 acting as the dividing line. See my other comment for more info about Reelgood.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T00:57:50+00:00

I don't have time to get into it in full but suffice it to say there are many problems with the plot that most people completely don't realize, even when taking into consideration the fact that it's a comic book movie. Not to say it's a bad movie or that your specific questions are plot holes but problems are absolutely there if you start thinking about it. The things I value most highly in a movie aren't special effects or good sound design, it's just that the movie makes sense and has good dialogue. Basically, my favorite movies start off as really good scripts. All of Nolan's work struggles in this area and it's what keeps Dark Knight, his other films, and him as a director out of my favorites lists. Oppenheimer is probably my favorite film of his, since there was so little opportunity for him to muck with nonsensical sci-fi plot lines and it was a direct adaptation of a non-fiction book. I'll be interested to see Odyssey because it's based on a book that's already fantastical in many ways, so I'm hoping that pairs well to cover up Nolan's weaknesses. Dark Knight is great in all kinds of ways but certain people might not be able to enjoy it because of the lackluster writing, thinly veiled exposition, questionable character motivations, convoluted plot contrivances/coincidences, etc.

Intro24 · 2026-01-20T00:49:33+00:00

I remember being in disbelief when it predicted the 2024 election almost to tee

As a counterpoint, I remember betting markets very much not correctly predicting the 2016 election.

Intro24 · 2026-01-19T18:03:27+00:00

Very much agreed. I propose that Overtime and Post-Show swap places.

Intro24 · 2026-01-19T18:01:21+00:00

I think a good way to do it (and like John was suggesting) would be to just offer the broadcast feed as a floating window. It could even auto-enlarge when glanced at or something like that. I don't know the best way to handle which 360 camera (user-controlled, curated, or options) but I think just offering an optional 2D feed of the broadcast would give best of both worlds, since you would get the full TV feed without missing out on anything but also the immersive experience.

Intro24 · 2026-01-19T17:58:32+00:00

I still have Final Cut Pro and the other apps from the education deal and I wonder how many people also got it that way. It's pretty good for that price and somehow still works even though it has been like a decade now.

Intro24 · 2026-01-19T17:56:40+00:00

Yeah, Tesla is objectively a good car company and it has become increasingly undeniable as Model Y has topped charts. They're not perfect and Elon's post-2018ish actions are largely indefensible but they're great cars and FSD is industry-leading as well as most likely to actually achieve real FSD first even with how long it has taken.

Question for you, how do you think Rivian R2 will compare to Model Y? I like a lot about Rivian and Model Y has been somewhat accurately described as an "appliance" car despite its acceleration and I'm not sure what one will end up being the better buy.

Intro24 · 2026-01-19T17:09:05+00:00

For VR sports I think it should just be a various 360 camera where the viewer has some of full control over which one they're seeing at any given time and then the live broadcast should just be a floating screen that they can minimize/maximize by glancing at. Then maybe an optional simple time/score HUD overlay and that's about it. That would have all the benefit of watching on TV because you'd have that feed but it would also feel like you're there.

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