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?
Very useful!
It would be nice to be able to share a set of timezones by sharing a URL with parameters.
Yeah, time.is supported that for a long time and was extremely useful for me.
isn't supported anymore?
I was going to say the same thing. The lack of this feature prevented me from sharing it to my whole company
Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This creates shareable dashboards with different cities, timezones, and airports.
It should be live today.
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 hitting the front page for the third time in five years.
Nothing is wrong here in my opinion
What is right about it? He explained the faulty algorithm.
I'd bet you will never find the answer to this.
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."
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.
I was thinking of this site as well, showing the different time lines and how they offset according to the time difference. Very neat. Just couldn't remember the domain name.
The design is a bit dated as it's not optimized for higher res screens, everything is quite small. I guess people can zoom in.
How do they make money though? I don't see ads or sign up page for extra features. Running this service since 2011, have to pay for hosting fees etc.
There used to be paid options. They sent a notice a couple years ago saying it was going completely free, but with that support has subsided. For example their mobile app is no longer compatible with latest versions of Android.
This is very useful for scheduling, and has a lot of the features being requested.
I bought the app long ago, but now I have a problem: their database isn't updated. Where I live the weekend changed from Fri/Sat to Sat/Sun since a year, but the app seems abandoned.
I believe I have already seen this UI recently at
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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
Your link also has an extra feature that the OP does not.
When I open https://www.timezones.digital/ it asks permission to get my current location and then displays the time for my location. And it even got the city name correct. This is great on mobile.
Whereas https://time.fyi/timezones does not currently request access to location and instead uses the location of my IP address. Which in my case is the location of my ISP and not of myself. Using the name of the city my ISP is in, which is halfway across the country from me.
Getting a location permissions popup the instant you first load a page is an annoyance, imo. Friendlier to leave that as an option you can choose if it looks worth it.
interestingly, that one misnames Rio de Janeiro as "Vila Rio de Janeiro" which is hilarious, considering the Rio metro area has ~12M people, so a bit bigger than my idea of a village
I'm not a fan of the design, tbh. I see no reason why these need to be cards, which actually forces the sliders to be next to each other (rather than below each other or combined into a single slider)
Seems one was used as more than just inspiration for the other for my taste...
This is extremely useful. Thanks for sharing. Are there future features planned? It could be a big thing.
What else would you like to see? I have some other time related tools that I will be launching but would love to hear what you have in mind.
I was thinking it would be cool to add another slider for day of the year. That way you can see how the differences change as local timezones roll through their own daylight savings time or other adjustments. For example, right now Asuncion Paraguay is +3 hours ahead of Chicago U.S. but in April it will be only one hour ahead.
Link sharing would be useful. Here is a site similar to yours, albeit not as pretty. https://podfeet.com/webapps/time-shifter-clock/
- Show the timezone name/descriptor if I select a city (yes, it already says 'GMT+X', but it would be helpful to have the local timezone name of that city as well) - Somehow select a time for a different day. E.g. if I want to compare the times for the 22nd of October 2024 instead of today (Countries/Cities/Regions swap timezones x-times a year, on different days)
This is really great! One feature I would love to see on this is link sharing. Just encoding data in the URL to share with others.
Maybe adding a custom label to each timezone so international groups can easily keep track of team times!
Second the link sharing idea!
came here to request this! Then I can share it with my company and we can have all our offices listed in one URL!
I use savvytime for this reason
https://savvytime.com/converter/ny-new-york-city-to-ca-los-a...
Can we drag the boxes to re-order?
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.
It seems not to have knowledge about CEST - Central European Summer Time. I am always hesitant when using this term since many are unaware of it, but writing CET while refering to the current (summer) time is technically wrong. I wonder if the user interface somehow can illustrate this.
Can you name a country that is currently observing Central European Summer Time?
I'm guessing "no" in the winter.
No country. But I could not find it when I searched for it. I should be able to compare with it, I think.
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.
Yes, same for me! Being able to see not just gmt-5 but also standard vs daylight would be excellent!
I second this, having to work with multiple TZ and calculate timelines as UTC.
Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are simply fitting, thanks!
Love this! Looks nice (I can't design it), works smoothly. Kudos on you for building something simple and just getting it out there.
Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time.
What's your story on starting this? Needed the tool yourself and couldn't find anything that worked for you, was trying to learn new tools, lost a bet?
Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time.
If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement like a meeting planner, scheduler, calendar and pomodoro timer etc. I'm happy that they took the MVP approach instead of waiting long to launch that perfect suite.
"If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement"
It would be good to say that this are the future features. My fist impression was confusion.
San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list
Yeah, I live in SF but it defaulted to Los Angeles for me. Same Time Zone, of course.
Probably only includes the standard time zone list?
The tool is great!!
Unfortunately, almost none in general public will lay eyes upon this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+calculator&oq=time...
You can either fill your site with SEO keywords and pay/work for backlinks. OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites. True tragedy of commons.
> You can either […] SEO […] OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites.
Not a problem if you aren't playing that game.
I've got a few things out three that probably aren't listed anywhere (they won't be anywhere that respects the robots.txt equivalent of “go forth and fornicate”!). They are there for me, friends, family, or to refer people to when relevant. Heck I might even mention one on public forums occasionally either due to relevance or just for a little mild ego-stroke. But I don't care whether or not they are listed in the first page of Google/Bing/Kagi/… so the general public can easily find them.
Admittedly the general public likely aren't even looking for them, I'm sure they are well served elsewhere, but that is beside the point.
Being massively popular doesn't necessarily imply fame & fortune. It might instead be fame and needing-to-find-a-way-to-pay-for-resources-to-keep-stuff-running-under-high-traffic (and dealing-with-stupid-emails-from-people-who-don't-know-which-elbow-they-are-sat-on!).
Some attention is better than no attention but monetization/a side hustle/etc. just isn’t a big deal for a lot of people and honestly isn’t a real option in a lot of contexts.
Nice (accidental/incendiary) Easter Egg - Belgrade shows up as "Kosovo - Belgrade". I suppose since "Kosovo is Serbia" it's...not...wrong...?
Technically it's probably since there are two aliases for `Europe/Belgrade`
["Kosovo",["Europe/Belgrade"]]
["Serbia",["Europe/Belgrade"]]I've got this too. Nice trolling if it's intentional
The capital of Kosovo is Belgrade.
I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!
Yes! I've been looking for this one and couldn't find it! Thank you. Google is useless for finding stuff like this now.
"Every" -- Why no Alaska or Hawaii?
Would love to see pr. timezone AM/PM and Military time toggle. I personally not figured out how to mentally convert from one to another and usually this is one of my challenges as well.
I support the link sharing as well. Perfect for events, meetings and the like.
So good, very easy to use and not to much other stuff going on. Great job and super domainname.
There is a 12/24 hour toggle. (It defaults to the wrong one, BTW.)
I meant pr. timezone toggle! The current one is global if I am not mistaken?
So I could have my own local time in military time and the one(s) I am converting to, in AM/PM.
Add a few commonly compared timezones by default. I should be able to load this and get to work, without setup.
Disagree. It appears to default to your local time zone for the first entry, which is a sane default. If there were other useless (to me) defaults as well I’d have to remove them as visual clutter (in addition to still needing to add the time zones I wish to compare).
common for you != common for everyone else. i live in japan, i would have absolutely no need for some random us / europe comparison
If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death" master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I use for this:
% tz
US West 18:39 -0800 PST
US East 21:39 -0500 EST
UTC 02:39 +0000 UTC
Ireland/UK 02:39 +0000 GMT
West Europe 03:39 +0100 CET
New Zealand 15:39 +1300 NZDT
Current 02:39 +0000 GMT
% tz 18:00
US West 10:00 -0800 PST
US East 13:00 -0500 EST
UTC 18:00 +0000 UTC
Ireland/UK 18:00 +0000 GMT
West Europe 19:00 +0100 CET
New Zealand 07:00 +1300 NZDT
Current 18:00 +0000 GMT
https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...
I use something similar, but I use -d "$*" instead of -d "$1" so I can do
$ dates 4 hours ago
I didn't know date supported that – can still do that with "tz '4 hours ago'".
For me the most useful part is being able to quickly translate things like "let's do a video chat at 3pm PST" to something that makes sense, which is why it had the second argument to set the timezone.
Awesome tool! Some minor feedback for what it's worth - after moving the slider bar to change the time, I went looking for a button along the top something like "Reset to Now", and it took me about two seconds to realize this reset button was in each time widget frame.
I started by trying to tap the local time clock at the top, after that I realized it's the little red reset button
I kind of agree that the "reset to now" button should be in the global context, as resetting each timezone to now separately doesn't make as much sense.
Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.
I depends on this, but Google Calendar only lets you add a second time zone. They don't take up much space, I'd love to have 3 or 4. Has anybody figured out a way to do that?
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
Looks great, unfortunately I am having challenges using it on iPhone Safari: trying to engage the sliders moves the cards around instead.
Thank you for reporting. I am looking into it.
"Oslo, Bouvet Island." :D
I got the same result.
Foe those that don't know, "Bouvet Island" belongs to Norway, and is a small island in the southern hemisphere. Oslo is NOT on Bouvet Island...
I guess the time zone database does not handle this case well
There’s a lot of dead space. Maybe condense it so more timezones fit on the screen.
I actually quite like the amount of dead space, as most time conversion tools I have used have been filled to the gills with information whereas I am typically only looking for one or two specific data points. To be honest, with many time conversion apps I often even struggle to distinguish a meaningful header, main content, and footer as they will often resemble some sort of industrial ticker. I know, different tools for different purposes, but that is exactly why I like this: it achieves simple comparisons simply.
This is really cool! Found a small bug - when you add a second card, the second card displays a pill with the total time difference between the first card and second card. When you switch the order of the cards by dragging, the pill remains on the same card so it's basically showing the total time difference in reverse. Clearing the cards and starting over with the switched order but by creating each card again results in the pill being displayed on the correct card.
That's not a bug, that's a feature. It shows the pills based on the highlighted card. Click a different card, and the "pills" change.
I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?
I saw dictionary word on non main tld for something like $125 somewhere and would bet somewhere there.
Feature suggestions:
- 12/24 hour setting should be detected based on browser locale.
- Colon symbol is broken on Firefox + Chrome for me in Linux (Shows U+FE55 symbol).
- Ability to toggle showing all cards in a single column layout so you can see the sliders position relative to each other more easily.
Yes, I'd prefer a single column like the experience on mobile
This looks great. Thank you for building and sharing it. I have a small feedback here.
I entered Kathmandu, Nepal and Hamburg, Germany. The time difference is -4:45 hours. The app shows me -4:75h. Which I think is a bug?
Thank you
Tried the same and it shows "-4.75h" with a dot, not a colon.
As 4.75 hours translates to 4 hours and 45 minutes, it's correct, maybe not intuitive at first glance.
Brilliant! Thanks for this.
Being someone who lives in Asia and interacts with clients(potential clients) in the Americas, I often find it difficulty to select a timeslot for a meeting. This tool will help a lot.
A Mac Version(Menu bar item) would be awesome
Try the clock https://www.seense.com/the_clock/
Nice, clean UI. What's the tech stack behind?
Source code suggests Astro with React.
Looks great! Well, except on mobile it wastes a lot of vertical space, able to fit only two records on a screen.
https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
Same here, I use the iPhone clock app and https://whattimeis.com but they’ve both got progressively worse at utilizing screen real estate.
Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los Angeles", for example.
Assuming you live in Germany you could type “14:00 in LA”
It says Hanoi belongs to Thailand. That can't be correct.
It's because their official time zone is "Asia/Bangkok". It must be getting it from there.
Seems many people have ideas for adding features. But nobody is really talking about whether they are using it in their day to day (or would use it).
My primary use case would be setting up a meeting across timezones, but my calendar app already shows me overlapping times.
Or knowing what time it is for family or a friend, but then that becomes second nature if you’ve been in different timezones for a while.
Or just seeing what time it is somewhere right now, but phones have multiple clocks, or a “what time is it in x?” search answers the question.
If the many suggested features are added, would you use it? How will this help you?
If you work with people across multiple timezones, it's really useful to be able to open a screen with a set of clocks and glance at the time in every relevant timezone.
If I just have https://time.fyi/timezones bookmarked, it seems to remember the timezones that are important to me. Definitely convenient and far easier than doing multiple searches or using a phone's multiple clocks(?).
This site is useful enough and it's a nice execution.
This is really useful and feels slick! I've been using https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to see time zone differences, which seems clunky in comparison.
You should be using https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html which is the exact same thing (arguably slightly better with just one slider and color-coded "good" and "bad" times when the timezones overlap)
See e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...
I like this and it’s immediately usable. May I ask you to make it so that I can reorder the boxes. Also could I have an option to have shorter boxes so that I can view 4 time zones without the need to scroll on a mobile screen?
It's already draggable for me on desktop, not sure for mobile.
The list of TZs should sort naturally, not on order of TZ addition.
I disagree, I want them shown in the order I add them, not in order of how far from the UK they are.
Typing Arizona yields no results
You can type specific cities (like Phoenix) but I couldn't find any entries for the parts of AZ that observe DST (like Tuba City)
Being in Phoenix as a remote worker for an East coast org, I love this. PHX does NOT do daylight savings which very few tools observe. TY
I wish only that you would add a RESET to NOW button.
Sliding to find when meetings could happen is awesome, but I keep wanting to reset to now.
Very cool!! Firefox bookmarked.
A red reset button appears in the top right of the cards after you slide the slider.
Thank you! I have replaced my previous bookmark of https://everytimezone.com/ with this one. Appreciate the simplicity of this one. :)
Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. I kept https://everytimezone.com/ after trying parent and a few others in the thread.
For eyeball time picks to drive min inconvenience for a group, every tz (after customizing for my tz of choice) was just easier.
Glad to have variety in this annoying problem space; more tools hopefully mean less bad scheduling of things.
I've been a big fan of worldtimebuddy[1] for a long time. I book a lot of meetings across timezones and it's makes it very easy to see when a good time for a meeting would be between sydney tokyo and miami as an example
Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?
Nice little idea! As a slight aside I’m not sure where the timezone / city list has come from but it labels Hanoi as in Thailand (rather than Vietnam).
And Oslo (Norway) in Bouvet Island...
Looks very slick. Using this on an ipad. A few comment... Moving the time slider also moves the zone widget. It would be nice if night/day is indicated on the sluder, maybe using subtle colors. Reason: The main reason I would use such an app is to know if my clients are awake.
Oooh, that's a nice idea.
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.
Very clever solution! Would be cool to add a color coding of the time, maybe same way as Apple does sun position in the weather app. So when you scroll time you can see where of all these places the sun is still up.
So after comparing time zones, which is your favorite?
Nice tool, would be great if you could input other languages that english when searching for a location
Fantastic. Thank you.
Any way to "pin" the current time so it acts as a live world clock?
Very useful. Thank you! I’d suggest to place the time above the slider. I’m left handed and I’m covering the time when I adjust the slider.
its very well designed, bookmarked
Only iOS, but one of my essentials is Clocker (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111)
Essentially it does the same thing
Love this. Simple. Works. Definitely will use. Thank you!!
There is a similar free iOS app called “Synchronize” that I use for the same purpose.
Love this. A link generator to share a state would be fantastic.
Looks great and works smoothly! Is there some way to chose a date in the future?
I use https://timezonewizard.com/ almost daily to find feasible meeting times over 3-4 timezones globally, sometimes some days in the future.
Love this, and will use this daily
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Very nice. I'll list a feature I've always wanted but haven't seen on timezone converters.
A map of timezones, which will either highlight the location entered, or allow you to select the timezone.
Saves a few keystrokes.
Great work! I've looked for this kind of thing before but found only the usual sea of spam and semi-functional tools.
Yours is really good, simple and clear.
One suggestion I have is maybe show a bit more prominently if the dates end up being different? Could be easy to miss.
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
Maybe the cards could get background color based on time of the day (e.g. blue for mid-day, dark for night etc.)
This is a brilliant tool. Thanks for building.
Might be useful to have the slider cover 3 days, rather than just 24h. With the single day, New York visually looks to be ahead of London at certain times of day (e.g from 00:00 to 05:00 UK time), because NY is still in its previous day.
Very well designed. I'd recommend saving the current state in the URL parameters, so you can share it (or save the link for yourself).
Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.
This is very nicely done. I've been a user of world time buddy and i don't have complaints but this is much slicker
Not what I was expecting haha. Interesting implementation! Seems super helpful and +100 for the great domain name too.
great domain, easy to remember, I'll be adding this to my list of dev tools I use alongside https://devina.io/ and https://www.omnicalculator.com/
Have you considered making it a PWA?
This is going to be my daily driver to schedule our team meetings, great work! A feature request would be to give me the option to input the time apart from the existing slider input.
Very well designed
Can I edit the name of the cities? As in I want to label as San Francisco instead of "Los Angeles"
The reset button doesn't really explain to me as it will reset to current time.
Wow, what a nice tool :) bookmarked!
Congrats on finishing and launching the project. It is slick! Are you planning to monetize?
I just use the clock by seense.
Very cool! I like how you use a slider to update the times.
Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar: https://currenttimeutc.com/
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.
This is great! It might be nice to see - dragging the slider increase/decrease by 15 mins (current) and tapping should increase/decrease by 1 min.
I love it. Thank you for making it
Welldone, this is very useful!
From my use cases (order of wantedness):
1. It would be nice to be able to type in a time rather than using slider.
2. A flag to say whether day light savings is in affect.
2. As well as current time what about adding other times in the blocks - I always need to convert 9:30, 15:30, 23:00 into local.
3. On desktop, there doesn't seem to be a reason that 12 and 24 hour clocks could be shown at the same time?
Well done! I'd use this over what's out there. Suggestions: 1. On mobile, it's hard to see more than 2 times without scrolling. I think compress the vertical space more 2. Might be nice to share a link with a configured set.
Can you add a service worker and manifest to make this into a progressive web app that works offline? If there's a GitHub, I'd love to help add that feature because it'd be useful to me. If it's not public you can find me here https://github.com/gabesullice
This reminds me of https://timezen.com/
i have always only knew about https://www.worldtimezone.com/
it has a nice world map, but its call planner feature is simpler than some of the alternatives mentioned here.
Weird use case, but some places use 12hr, some use 24hr time. You could likely infer that by timezone name itself?
I know if I get meeting at noon or midnight - I need to triple check everything…
In the same domain I used for years timebuddy https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
I'd love to see this with sun position. Maybe even change the brightness of the square too. Then you could visually see when all your meeting participants are in daylight.
I like the way this tool looks, but I am a big fan of the "row-based" designs from these other tools for comparing time zones.
* Every Time Zone: time zone converter, compare time zone difference and find best time for a meeting with one click || https://everytimezone.com/
* Time Converter and World Clock - Conversion at a Glance - Pick best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings and phone calls. || https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
And this site has a bunch of great tools for calculating time between days and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff.
* Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator || https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
I’d like to be able to save :)
That's really nice and coincidentally I needed such a tool just a few days ago.
If I could make a small suggestion - always mark a few key times on the timeline so a user can quickly guesstimate, say, midday here is 9am there without the sliders.
That slider feature is so incredibly useful. I think I will use this many times per week. This is what I needed but didn't know I needed.
Love it!
Would be great if I could adjust height of the boxes to fit more on a page on iPhone.
Very neat. Reminds me of the Overlap app by Moleskine Studio: https://moleskinestudio.com/support/overlap/introduction/ove...
Great UX but only available as an app. You have the advantage of being on any platform and able to create share links.
Nice! I saved to my iPhone Home Screen. However, the icon was a black box with a white T. When I tapped to save it showed a much nicer black box with yellow swirl - looks like an icon file is missing.
this is great, will definitely be using it
Please put an ad on this so that it'll always be free and accessible!
cute, good job. some color indication on the cards could be nice to make it more visually obvious whether its day or night
bug report: Apia shows as capital of American Samoa
Thanks for sharing, it works very cool
The only thing I can see missing that I would use would be the ability to select a date in the future or past. Now this might be my ignorance of the subject area but it's definitely something I use other services for.
This is a great tool. Thank you. As an international student in US with a lag of 10-12 hours with my home country, this will be very helpful in scheduling calls.
For comparison I've been using https://everytimezone.com for years
I love it. The best I have tried so far
Wow! That's one of my most loved now. Great job!
Great tool OP, thank you.
Super nice. A feature request: for each time zone, show the offset to sun time. Helps with the question: will 8am be like I expect it to be ?
Useful for outdoors activities.
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
Fair point. These are still valid questions whose answers could unblock people who are stuck in a analysis paralysis
If you look at his profile and look at his about, then you know why he’s asking this.
I can't help but see this as Google's failure, not OP's.
Not everything has to be a VC-funded startup.
Some people just make stuff for fun, to learn a new skill, or to scratch a personal pain point.
Because it was time.