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3 Billion visits. A 30-year Google moat. I built the modern replacement. Now comes the hard part.

I spent the first 15 years of my career as a coder, and I was actually pretty good. But manager and director roles got offered, I took them, and I stopped building.

When agentic engineering started taking off, I knew I had to learn, or I would get left behind. I also honestly wanted to see how real this "vibe coding" thing actually was. But I needed a project first. The best way to learn is to build, and the best thing to build is something you actually use and want to exist. I remembered worldtimebuddy.com. I used it 15 years ago, and still used it over the years. I had ideas: add a world map, a day/night shader, let users simulate time movement across the globe. So I started building.

What I didn't expect was how fast it came together. Coding is like riding a bike. Despite 15+ years away from it, I had retained all the software engineering principles, and that turned out to be my superpower. The first couple of weeks I was genuinely shocked at how much I could ship with AI as my co-pilot. I know the term "vibe coding" has taken hold, but like Peter Steinberger, I consider it something of a slur. I prefer "Agentic Engineering" or "Agent Orchestrator". Whatever you call it, it changed everything for me.

Then I went deeper. I researched the whole time utility space: timeanddate.com, worldtimebuddy.com, time.is, savvytime.com, every major time utility site. What struck me was not just how old they were, but how old they felt. timeanddate.com was founded in 1995. time.is in 2011. worldtimebuddy.com in 2011. savvytime.com in 2013. These are not just legacy sites in name; they are legacy sites in every sense: the design, the UX, the features, the experience. They feel exactly like what they are, products of a different internet era, never truly modernized, just patched over time.

And yet they still drive insane traffic. 3 billion visits a year. Combined. Yes, that is not a typo. That is a "B". Billions. Nobody had built the modern version. That gap seemed insane to me.

So I decided to go all the way.

findtime.io is now a full modern time intelligence platform. Everything timeanddate.com does, the visual timezone comparison of worldtimebuddy.com, plus things none of them do: AI-powered meeting recommendations, city and country travel suggestions, a voice agent, and coverage across the entire world: 20,000+ cities, approximately 250 countries, and 400+ timezones. And very soon, scheduling features will be at parity with Calendly.

The platform is truly fully featured. There is a Telegram bot, a Discord bot, a Chrome extension, and a Slack bot coming soon. There is a developer API and an MCP server compatible with Codex, Cursor, and Claude. That last one is genuinely surreal. One of the most memorable moments building this was asking a Claude agent in Cursor, "What is the best meeting time between New York, London and Sydney?" and watching it use my technology to spit out an answer. That moment made it feel like I had finally arrived as a true "Agentic Orchestrator".

One site for everything time.

Here is where I am at honestly: I am a builder, not a marketer, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The incumbents have had 30 years to entrench themselves in every Google keyword that matters. timeanddate.com alone has been building Google domain authority since 1995. Cracking that without a real budget is brutal, and I have tried. I know the market is there. 3 billion visits a year tells me that. What I need is someone who lives and breathes growth, who knows how to build paid and organic acquisition engines against entrenched incumbents, and who can do what I cannot. That person is not me.

I am open to investment, and I will just say that plainly. But right now, I would value the right advice and the right connections just as much as capital. If you have been here before, if you have cracked a market dominated by legacy players with a 30-year Google head start, or if you know someone who has, I would genuinely love to hear from you.

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