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Show HN: FlagTimes – The macOS app for anyone working in multiple timezones

1 points by reimertz 9y ago

reimertz 9y ago
Hi there HN peeps, I just saw a post here on HN about 250 productivity tools and felt a tad sad to not see my own tool on the list, but I blame myself for not doing any kind of advertising of it but felt I might at least share it. Anyway, It all started when I moved to Indonesia, doing the remote work/digital nomad thing and had a huge problem figuring out what time it was back home. So naturally, instead of actuality working, I learnt swift and created an simple app just for myself, solving said problem. A month later, friends started bugging me about the app, so after a while I was like, fuck it, let's create this thing! :D I released it, it got some love over at the Product Hunt community but maybe a week or two, sales went don't two maybe 1-2 sells a day. But to be honest, just knowing I might save a minute or two of a persons life each week makes my day. :) Finally, a bonus link & LPT: Don't ever post your self-built tools to awesome-lists unless they are super complicated, non-learning-project apps that doesn't "solve anything at all": https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS/pull/452 https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS/pull/452 If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them! //Pierre
stephenr 9y ago
It’s always nice to see useful little tools like this in the MAS. Will definitely check this out when I’m back at my mac. I’m sure I used to have an app called “Jet” that showed scrolling time zones side by side for this type of thing - but I can’t find any reference to it anywhere. If anyone knows what I’m referring to and/or what happened to it, I’d love to know!
- stephenr 9y ago
  Ok so I checked it out. Not bad - a bit more customisation would be nice i.e. it'd be better to have a (even abbreviated) city name than flag + timezone. I added two people I work with (in Ithaca NY and Houston TX) and it just shows me a flag + UTC offset next to the time - that doesn't help much to see quickly. Also, due to the nature of it, after a couple of entries it becomes pretty wide. I dont actually need the info all the time, I can usually guesstimate close enough, but when I want to know specifically, it'd be helpful to be able to see the times of multiple at once. So for me, this isn't quite what I need, but good luck, and don't be deterred by that idiot on GH.

1 points by reimertz 9y ago

Hi there HN peeps, I just saw a post here on HN about 250 productivity tools and felt a tad sad to not see my own tool on the list, but I blame myself for not doing any kind of advertising of it but felt I might at least share it. Anyway, It all started when I moved to Indonesia, doing the remote work/digital nomad thing and had a huge problem figuring out what time it was back home. So naturally, instead of actuality working, I learnt swift and created an simple app just for myself, solving said problem. A month later, friends started bugging me about the app, so after a while I was like, fuck it, let's create this thing! :D I released it, it got some love over at the Product Hunt community but maybe a week or two, sales went don't two maybe 1-2 sells a day. But to be honest, just knowing I might save a minute or two of a persons life each week makes my day. :) Finally, a bonus link & LPT: Don't ever post your self-built tools to awesome-lists unless they are super complicated, non-learning-project apps that doesn't "solve anything at all": https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS/pull/452 https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS/pull/452 If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them! //Pierre

stephenr 9y ago

It’s always nice to see useful little tools like this in the MAS. Will definitely check this out when I’m back at my mac. I’m sure I used to have an app called “Jet” that showed scrolling time zones side by side for this type of thing - but I can’t find any reference to it anywhere. If anyone knows what I’m referring to and/or what happened to it, I’d love to know!

stephenr 9y ago
Ok so I checked it out. Not bad - a bit more customisation would be nice i.e. it'd be better to have a (even abbreviated) city name than flag + timezone. I added two people I work with (in Ithaca NY and Houston TX) and it just shows me a flag + UTC offset next to the time - that doesn't help much to see quickly. Also, due to the nature of it, after a couple of entries it becomes pretty wide. I dont actually need the info all the time, I can usually guesstimate close enough, but when I want to know specifically, it'd be helpful to be able to see the times of multiple at once. So for me, this isn't quite what I need, but good luck, and don't be deterred by that idiot on GH.