Locate Me: Solving the Remote Team Timezone Problem

I've been working with distributed teams for years now, and there's one problem that never goes away: figuring out what time it is for everyone else. You know the drill - someone suggests a meeting time, you start doing mental math, pulling up timezone converters, and inevitably someone gets invited to a call at 3AM their time.

So I built something to fix it.

The Problem with Remote Work

Remote work is brilliant. Being able to work with talented people anywhere in the world opens up so many possibilities. But coordination? That's the pain point nobody talks about enough.

When your team is spread across eight time zones, simple things become complicated. What's a reasonable meeting time when half your team is starting their day and the other half is heading to bed? You end up with spreadsheets, mental calculations, and the constant worry you're about to wake someone up in the middle of the night.

What Locate Me Does

Locate Me shows your entire team on a beautiful 3D globe with their current local time displayed in real-time. No more guessing, no more mental math, no more timezone converter tabs.

The interface is simple - you can search and filter team members by name, location, or time zone. Local times update every second for accuracy. Most importantly, there's a day/night overlay that shows you at a glance who's in working hours and who's asleep.

It takes about 60 seconds to set up from signup to seeing your first globe view. The learning curve is essentially zero - if you can use a web browser, you can use Locate Me.

Privacy Matters

Here's something important: location precision is limited to roughly 55 kilometers. That's precise enough to get timezones right, but it doesn't give away anyone's exact address. Privacy has to come first with this kind of tool.

The day/night visualization uses real-time solar calculations that update every minute. When it's nighttime on someone's part of the globe, you see city lights. It's not just functional - it actually looks good.

Technical Approach

I built this with Next.js and hosted it with NestJS for the backend. For authentication, I used Clerk, which I highly recommend - it handles all the security complexity so you don't have to.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 assisted with development, which honestly made the whole process much faster. Having Artificial Intelligence (AI) help with the architecture decisions and code implementation meant I could focus on solving the actual problem rather than wrestling with boilerplate.

Early Access Available

Locate Me is live now with early access. There's a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Takes 60 seconds to set up, and you can cancel anytime.

If you're tired of timezone math and want to stop accidentally scheduling meetings during people's sleep time, give it a try at locateme.info.

— David