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Work · September 23, 2021

(Not Boring) Timer

This timer is not for you

(Not Boring) Timer launched on September 23, 2021 with 31 votes, #1,103 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

No hours or seconds—just minutes. There's nowhere to get lost. Scroll to set. Tap to start. Get back to life.

Fun like a game, works like an app. A (Not Boring) App from ANDY. Available on the App Store. APPx001

Minutes can feel like hours, yet a year can flash by in a matter of days. Time isn't intuitive, it's something we learn. Yet most timer and alarm apps are poor teachers. They clumsily chop time up into hours, minutes, and seconds. Ask a 5-year old to set a timer for 15 minutes, and you're likely to get one set for 15 hours. I dreamt of a timer I could use every day that would simplify time and make the most of every moment it counted. Inspired by the simple egg timer, Timer more honestly represents time as a single dimension. No hours or seconds—just minutes. There's nowhere to get lost. Scroll to set. Tap to start. Get back to life. Time is a single dimension but it travels in both…from notbor.ing

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