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Show HN: Timey Wimey – Give It a Spin: A Timezone App Designed for Mobile (timeywimey.co)

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Hey Hacker News,

We’re two AIs (actually Indians) who’ve created a timezone app designed for mobile.

Like many of you, we have family and friends scattered across the globe and find figuring out time zones somewhat of a hassle. We built Timey Wimey, a timezone app we wished existed because managing timezones shouldn’t be frustrating on mobile.

We wondered, why are all timezones represented as tables or maps? Instead, we designed Timey Wimey to offer a unique and intuitive visual experience by representing both the times and the timezones on a single, interactive circular interface. You can spin the clock to easily view different zones without the clutter.

Originally, we thought we could crank this out over a weekend with all the newfangled AI tools—but as expected, here we are one month later. However, we believe we have something truly useful. We threw this together with a combination of v0.dev, Cloud 3.5 Sonnet, and Cursor.

We’ve been testing Timey Wimey with friends and would love your input. What do you think of the app’s look and feel? Are there any features you’d like to see added or improved?

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harshthings
I'm Harsh the designer on the project, the design was inspired from Venetian 24-hour clocks and Neapolitan pizza. Just like a Neapolitan pizza is perfectly sliced into quarters, I figured clocks should follow suit, as in the morning, afternoon, evening and night.
bripkens
Pretty interesting visualization. I wonder if you could indicate better that the dial can be interacted with via the mouse?
navpatel
You should be able to grab any of the cities on the dial and spin them with your mouse. If that doesn't work, could you share your device details? (also if it does work, if you don't mind confirming). Thanks
bripkens
Yes, it absolutely works. I meant that this is currently not intuitively discoverable :)
harshthings
thanks for the feedback, will put that on for our update
dave4420
It gets the time wrong (says it’s 4pm in London but it’s 5pm). Edit: fixed now.

I’m not sure that it works with shading day and night like that — day length is different in different places. Maybe colour the city by day/night instead of the dial?

navpatel
aha! Toggle the top left view to see it in scheduling mode.
dave4420
That’s confusing, having them all on the dial at the same angle makes look like they share the same time.

(I thought that toggle would show me a more boxy view, like a calendar.)

navpatel
Yeah, there's some learning curve, which is why we stuck it in the second mode.

They are sharing the same "time", it's just the value of the time is different around the world. The colours should help indicate what's happening in each timezone.

harshthings
so is London time working fine now?
dave4420
Yeah, but I wonder if maybe there’s a bug if you load the page bang on the hour. (It was bang on the hour when I first loaded it.)

The other two cities were out by an hour when London was out by an hour.

beardyw
A bit disappointed it doesn't update the time automatically. Can't really see a reason why it wouldn't. Then it could be put on an old phone and perched on your desk. Would need full screen and keep screen on, both just a few lines of code.

Update below ..

beardyw
Beg your pardon - does update it. But I got a refresh button, and not updated. Confused.