<story><title>Tell HN: We&apos;re building a &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>I don&apos;t have regular office hours.  I start work anywhere from 12-1pm and stop anywhere from midnight-5am.  Sometimes I take days off.  Sometimes I&apos;m too busy to answer the phone.  My schedule for something like this is pretty much unpredictable.&lt;p&gt;Proposal: rather than specifying hours, just let me specify here / gone like a regular IM client.  If it looks like it&apos;s going to be a slow day, I&apos;ll turn on the tap, and if things pick up I&apos;ll turn it off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: We&apos;re building a &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>Have you guys seen Aardvark? Aardvark sends questions to friends and friends-of-friends via IM and/or email. If HN readers all linked together as friends or friends-of-friends, then your questions would be routed to the appropriate people based on interests. And if no HN people are available to answer your questions, they get routed off to the rest of the Aardvark network.&lt;p&gt;Even if people don&apos;t like this idea, it wouldn&apos;t hurt to look at how their UI and features are set up, since they&apos;re one of the pioneers in doing exactly the same kind of thing the &quot;HN Office Hours&quot; app is trying to do.&lt;p&gt;You can link to me here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://vark.com/s/UR0C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://vark.com/s/UR0C&lt;/a&gt; -- everyone who links to me will be a friend-of-a-friend and will be auto-networked by Aardvark, assuming they all use an IM program compatible with Google Chat or Yahoo IM. Or if someone else wants to volunteer to be the &quot;hub&quot; of HN users, feel free to post your link here.&lt;p&gt;Just a thought. :)</text></comment>