Executive Summary

Distributed teams and individual contributors across 12 million teams routinely spend unnecessary time and make mistakes coordinating meeting times across time zones; current solutions are often web‑centric, mouse‑driven, ad‑filled or privacy‑invasive, which makes quick scheduling painful. This friction is especially acute for developers, ops, and power users who prefer keyboard workflows and need a fast, unobtrusive way to find overlapping work windows. You could build a tiny terminal/CLI time‑zone planner with a keyboard-driven TUI that accepts participants' locations or calendar links, highlights optimal meeting windows, suggests locally-friendly hour ranges, and exports invites or iCal snippets. Ship it as a single binary with optional calendar integrations and an offline mode to appeal to privacy‑conscious teams and developers. The addressable market is realistic: using 12M distributed teams at a $60 ACV estimate implies roughly a $720M opportunity, and market and revenue potential scores (82/100 and 80/100) suggest commercial viability. Hybrid work is entrenched and terminal-first tooling trends make early traction plausible among influencers who can evangelize the product. It can differentiate by being terminal-first, ultra-fast, privacy-friendly, and tightly integrated with developer workflows—features most web utilities don't prioritize. That said, competition is medium, you’ll need to prove value beyond developer early adopters via smart integrations and onboarding, and you should plan for simple monetization paths, but the low prototyping cost makes this a modest-risk, high-info experiment worth trying.

Market Opportunity

Quick terminal time-zone planner to pick appropriate meeting hours targets a $720M = 12M distributed teams × $60 ACV (annual subscription or equivalent spending by teams needing timezone/scheduling tools) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 8% YoY (remote collaboration and scheduling tools growth; source: Gartner/Deloitte hybrid work surveys 2022-2024).

Key trends driving demand: Hybrid and distributed work is entrenched — teams continue to schedule across time zones, creating persistent demand for easy timezone coordination.; Developer and prosumer tooling is trending toward terminal-first and keyboard-driven UX — this makes a TUI solution more appealing to an influential early-adopter audience.; Privacy and ad-avoidance preferences are rising — many users seek lightweight, privacy-friendly alternatives to ad-filled web utilities.; Composable tooling and integrations are becoming standard — users expect small tools to integrate with calendars, Slack, and CLI workflows, making integrations a key adoption driver..

Key competitors include World Time Buddy, Every Time Zone, Timezone.io.

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Quick terminal time-zone planner to pick appropriate meeting hours

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