Clockish

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My new app Clockish (v0.0.1) is released!

This was my first project with MonkeyC. It’s inspired by a watch my Dad owned that only had an hour hand. When asked the time, he’d always first ask “roughly or exactly?” and then proceed to ignore your choice and say “it’s about 7 o’clock”.

I wanted to capture that “ish” factor—removing the need for precision to create a more relaxed relationship with time. I decided on 5-minute rounding to give a reasonable level of accuracy, which is probably the most anyone would ever need.

I also wanted the display to say exactly what someone would say when asked the time, so they could literally read out the text on screen.

Clockish is available both on the web as a PWA and as a watch face for Garmin devices.