This made me want want to release my syllable counter on it's own domain because it beats the top google results. Only problem is whether or not there's any utility to it.
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#22I suggest you add more country names to your incremental search e.g. England, Canada, Australia. If the country has more than one timezone, list them.
Worth logging all the things people type that get zero auto-completions.
Otherwise spot on.
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#23Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.
Can you make this a dashboard widget?
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#24As a programmer, I find it very satisfying - you type in the name, it auto-completes; you change the time on either side, and it maintains the relation. Nice :-) And love the clean simplicity - it's like the google of timezone converters. :-) - But it wasn't obvious that it would autocomplete - nice to have a drop-down even before typing, just to show the user. Or maybe just a couple of e.gs. (like google calendar's…
Great ideas. I've been collecting electronic feedback like this from friends, but agreed that some "over the shoulder" user testing could help. Hearing these "x was not obvious" from you is helpful as I'm too deep in it now for any of these to occur anymore.
A big gripe (I didn't mention in the blog) of the other sites were massive amounts of confusing AdSense, so I was almost thinking a single cleanly branded "sponsor" to pay for the server costs if it gets enough traffic.
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#25I couldn't find any of the major Swiss cities in your city list. Any reason?
I used GeoNames to make sure all countries are in there. Cities, I sorted by population and took the top 1000.
Looking more closely now... Zurich at least should have made the cutoff. I'll take a look. Thanks.
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#26Have you looked at the library date.js? It might be helpful for you here. It seems unmaintained now but is still useful sometimes; not sure if it will help in this specific case, but might be worth a look.
GMTA - already using it with a few tweaks.
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#27That's great! Your are absolutely correct, most sites seem to originate in pre-2000. Just two additional ideas: For the problem you specified I did find a interface which gives you a day view of both destinations with the corresponding times on both sides, and colored backgrounds (green for good meeting times, yellow for too early or too late or midday and red for night) so that you can easily find out an optimal mee…
Thanks, appreciate the compliment and ideas. I do remembering coming across that other site too. I've been looking for a fun graphic or animation to jazz up the UI (I believe in making products "fun") so maybe the analog clock idea is it.
It's here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
Very useful app, when you have people in several timezones.
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#28Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.
I have no idea how American time-zones work. Or many other time-zones, for that matter.
But I could probably find it on a map. So that would help.
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#29First reactions: tab field-switching and/or JS execution order. Time is on top, so I'll input that first, then want to set the TZ. Tab goes time1->time2->tz1->tz2, which is unintuitive to me at least. In addition, filling in the dominant origin field first (time) is counter-productive as changing the TZ afterwards then auto-modifies the origin time - clearly not as I intended. This absolutely makes sense from a programmatic reload-free page outlook upon reflection, but not at all going purely on intuitive UI use.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#30I suggest you add more country names to your incremental search e.g. England, Canada, Australia. If the country has more than one timezone, list them. Worth logging all the things people type that get zero auto-completions. Otherwise spot on.
Thanks. As a shortcut I left out countries with multiple timezones, but as you say they should be in there still just multiple times and delineated somehow.
Nothing gets by the HN crowd. :)