I made a Fallout-inspired U.S. presidential term countdown timer
Hey HN! I had this idea a few weeks back and put it together one morning. My motivations were to give myself an easy way to check how long is left in the presidency while providing myself (and others) with some inspirational quotes to encourage those of us who need it to “hang in there”. This was really fun to make; I got to flex some creative design skills I haven’t used in a long time. And it was a good opportunity to create a completely skeuomorphic design, which I haven’t done in many years. Obviously my design inspiration was Fallout's Pip-Boy UI. The stack is a basic Next.js static…
I made a Fallout-inspired U.S. presidential term countdown timer launched on April 4, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Follow the Trump Countdown Clock to see how much time remains in Trump's presidency with our live, up-to-the-second countdown timer.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! I had this idea a few weeks back and put it together one morning. My motivations were to give myself an easy way to check how long is left in the presidency while providing myself (and others) with some inspirational quotes to encourage those of us who need it to “hang in there”. This was really fun to make…
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