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Timely

2.1k+ installs: Slack workspaces that have installed Timely.1.1k active Slack workspaces: Slack workspaces with Timely installed right now.Recurring revenue: Makes money every month from subscriptions.

A Slack app that converts timezones in your chat messages automatically.

How Timely helps distributed teams

  1. Every time mentioned in Slack shows up in each teammate's local time, even casual ones like "end of day" or "next Tuesday".

  2. Works in channels, threads and DMs, and only teammates in another timezone see the conversion.

  3. Used by teams at Salesforce (yes, the company that owns Slack needed a Slack app to tell the time), Globant, Vistaprint, HelloFresh, Warner Music Group, Carta, Indeed, Square, Zillow, Meltwater and PUBG Studios.

How Timely started

  1. I've worked remotely since joining Qwilr in 2018, way before Covid made it cool, as the only one on the team outside Australia.

  2. The team always mentioned times in both their timezone and mine. I felt bad that they had to.

  3. So one weekend in August 2020, I built a Slack bot to do it for us, then launched it as a free app in the Slack App Directory.

  4. Beyond one Indie Hackers post and a couple of tweets, I never promoted it. Teams with the same problem found it on their own.

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