Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by boldi » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:34 AM UTC

p-e-w wrote: post #38

Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this! On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post with fewer upvotes in more time is ranked 2nd. Something is very wrong here. I'd love to see more posts like this one, and fewer standard blog articles that are hit…

There is an answer to your question [0]:

"The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by richardw » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:36 AM UTC

My favourite, has website and app, is https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Simple no-clicking view. If I need to share a time range, it’s easy to select.

Mobile app pics, one with with range selection: https://imgur.com/gallery/F52vcZT

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by mrg2k8 » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:44 AM UTC

Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los Angeles", for example.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by kamranahmedse » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:49 AM UTC

ArekDymalski wrote: post #49

Very nice, very useful. The slider is extremely easy & fast input method which is great. I've encountered an issue with the fonts spacing of hours and minutes - the digits are overlapping: https://imgur.com/a/meoRaJL (Win11, Chrome, Firefox, Edge)

I just deployed the fix for this. It should be fine now.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by pimlottc » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

vishkk wrote: post #35

Pretty cool, really like it. I have been using Overlap by Moleskine on iOS for a while: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id...

That looks nice, but I don't really understand what the blobby graphs mean in the screenshots

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by sagarpatil » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:56 AM UTC

Congratulations on the launch. Looks great! A couple of questions if you don't mind me asking:

1. Why did you build this tool when we have thousands of time zone comparison websites, apps and inbuilt functionality in smartphone time app?

2. Google already does this natively

3. It will be really tough to rank this on Google

4. Do you plan on monetizing this?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by infradig » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:57 AM UTC

Sweet, I did a CLI version of this idea in 1987 for VMS, was working with people in Sydney, London & Chicago and this made it easy to communicate.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by mrdoob2 » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 6:06 AM UTC

Have you considered making it a PWA?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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Post by kamranahmedse » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

LVB wrote: post #45

kamranahmedse wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you can.

I’m unable to drag the cards on iPhone.

Ah that was intentional, it disables the sorting on smaller screens. I am working on some UI refinement for smaller screens and will re-enable sorting after that.