A couple of years ago, my husband made a website to count down the days till a certain job was over.
He hadn't given it a second thought until a few days ago, when he glanced at the analytics.
Apparently there's a market out there for counting down to (or up from) events, because thousands of random strangers have created a total of 16,000 countdowns (and ups).
There are countdowns to babies, weddings and holidays, there's a countdown to deer season (71 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes, 58 seconds), one to retirement (806 days, 1 hour, 0 minutes, 48 seconds) and one to going home (0 days, hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds).
It's never been advertised but more than 500 people visit the site each day. I'm both fascinated and disturbed.
countdowndays.com
That's awesome! I'd forgotten about that site - what's the address again?
ReplyDeleteJaph has created a countdown til we arrive back in Australia! (84 days, 11 hours, 4 mins and 4 seconds) :)
ReplyDelete84 days sounds like forever Em!! I'd love to create a countdown until we move house, except that I still don't know when we're moving. I could do one til I start work again but that would just stress me out as it goes down. Hmmm... to think of something else I can make one about.
ReplyDeleteAmy, if you haven't already found it, it's countdowndays.com
ReplyDeleteI have a tendency to spend too much time counting down to things and not enough time in the moment, so I have to resist the temptation to go countdown crazy. But that's just me.
It's not just you, it's me too! :)
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