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

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I believe I have already seen this UI recently at https://www.timezones.digital --- Interesting info about the domain, it was regiesterd first in 2015, and has alredy been renewed till 2029-09-02 with cloudflare registrar. It's purchase price was also not a premium at just $18

the developer of the timezones.digital here. Yeah, he just stole our design

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

#222

A similar site I really like is https://everytimezone.com/ But I like how you can configure which timezones you want to see with this one.

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com has a similar design and is configurable. And I prefer it (the slider aligned) to OP's design (sliders all over the place)..

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

#223

I believe I have already seen this UI recently at https://www.timezones.digital --- Interesting info about the domain, it was regiesterd first in 2015, and has alredy been renewed till 2029-09-02 with cloudflare registrar. It's purchase price was also not a premium at just $18

the developer of the timezones.digital here. Yeah, he just stole our design

Hey! There was no intention of "stealing." I did not know who else was involved in the development of timezones.digital, and I did send a message to the designer "Mykhailov" about using it as inspiration. The only reasons for redevelopment were:

- The timezone search in the original app was laggy.

- It did not allow searching timezones by offset, e.g., 'GMT+5,' 'gmt-5,' etc.

- It did not allow timezone search by name, e.g., PST, EST, GST, etc.

- It requested location permission that seemed unnecessary.

- It was closed source.

I had been using your product for quite some time and only developed time.fyi to scratch my own itch. I will be open-sourcing it soon and planning on extending it beyond what it is today.

Having said that, thank you for your work on timezones.digital!

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

#224

I believe I have already seen this UI recently at https://www.timezones.digital --- Interesting info about the domain, it was regiesterd first in 2015, and has alredy been renewed till 2029-09-02 with cloudflare registrar. It's purchase price was also not a premium at just $18

Domain costed me around $1000 and I purchased it from some marketplace. Regarding the UI, please look at my reply in the thread below.

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

#225

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?

your questions are literally the reason why internet is not what it used to be. not everything needs to be about money, people can do things out of their own interest and needs

There's no need to be rude.

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

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post #131

I've been using World Time Buddy for years - https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ It allows for a calendar view and shows multiple cities together. It's excellent for figuring out a time slot for a team when everyone is living in a different timezone.

Great tool, love the calendar picker to check the DST overlap weeks.

I use also timeanddate.com. It suggests acceptable time slots and can be saved in favs with selected cities, i.e. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...

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

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post #168

I think the date selector is a must. My biggest timezone confusion happens during these two weeks when the US changes the daylight and the EU is not changed yet. So... during the two weeks in a year 9:00am SF time is not 18:00 EU time.

World time buddy offers that: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
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