TCK Time
For work, I’ve been spending a lot of time learning and experimenting with AI tools and seeing how they fit into my workflow. It’s been genuinely fun to vibe code and to feel how much closer designers are to code than ever before. That shift changes a lot. Not just how products get built, but how design and engineering teams collaborate, move, and think together. I’m really interested to see where all of this goes, and for me, keeping up with this technology feels energizing rather than intimidating.
Along that journey, I started playing around with vibe coding more seriously and ended up building a small website called TCK Time.
TCK Time came from a very real need in my own life. I went to international school, and some of my closest friends from high school are still my closest friends today. The only problem is that we now live everywhere. I’m in New York. One friend is in Germany. Another in the UK. Another in Sri Lanka. Another in New Zealand. Add kids into the mix and suddenly finding time to talk feels… impossible.
Every time we tried to plan a call, we’d end up bouncing between janky time-zone websites, copy-pasting times into WhatsApp, and still somehow getting it wrong. It wasn’t seamless, and it definitely wasn’t fun.
So I built something simpler.
With TCK Time, you pick a date, choose who’s joining the call, and select the countries they’re calling from. The site then shows you overlapping “sweet spots” that actually work across time zones. It even adds small human cues, like whether someone probably needs coffee for an early call or whether someone else is staying up late to make it happen.
The project is branded for third culture kids, because that’s who it’s for at its core:
Third culture kids who live between clocks and group chats that span across continents (and caffeine levels).
You can save groups of people you talk to regularly, so you don’t have to rebuild the same setup every time. You can create an account. It’s dynamic, lightweight, and meant to feel more like a friendly utility than a tool you have to wrestle with.
The design is intentionally simple. I deliberately kept it pared back to see whether the core idea would resonate on its own. While I do have intentions to make it more design-forward over time, this felt like a utility that didn’t need a lot of bells and whistles to be useful. Right now, clarity mattered more than ornamentation.
That said, there are still a few thoughtful touches. The background gradient shifts depending on the time of day you’re in: warmer oranges and yellows later in the day, cooler blues earlier on. There are also small global facts and snack callouts tucked in at the bottom as a bit of surprise, because even utilities can have personality.
This started as a personal experiment, but I know the need is bigger than me. It’s for families who live far apart, friends spread across continents, and anyone who grew up learning how to belong in more than one place at once.
If that sounds like you, you can check it out here:
👉 https://tck-time.com
It was a genuinely fun project to work on, and I’m excited to keep evolving it and see how people use it.
