Zonelyte - Shareable Timezone Overlap Presets for Distributed Teams

Distributed teams don’t need more meetings — they need less back-and-forth. Zonelyte is a small tool I’m building to make timezone overlap planning visual, fast, and shareable.

The real problem

Scheduling across timezones isn’t “hard” — it’s just constantly annoying.

Every week it’s:

• “What time works for you?”
• “That’s 2am for me.”
• “Can we shift 30 minutes?”
• “Let me check another slot…”

It’s death by a thousand tiny interruptions.

When your product team is in San Francisco, engineering is in Singapore, and you’re somewhere in between — someone always pays the price.

I wanted a faster answer to one simple question:

When can we actually meet — without punishing someone?

What Zonelyte does

Instead of endless back-and-forth, Zonelyte gives you:

• Clear overlap visualization across multiple cities and timezones
• Suggested meeting windows that don’t destroy someone’s sleep schedule
• Shareable presets you can drop into Slack, Notion, or docs

So instead of debating times every week, your team can just agree:

“We use Preset A for product sync.”
“Preset B for cross-region planning.”

Done.

Why presets matter

Most timezone tools help you calculate overlap.

Zonelyte helps you operationalize it.

Once you define a fair window, you don’t need to rethink it every week. You just share the link. Everyone sees the same visual truth.

It reduces:

• decision fatigue
• fairness debates
• hidden resentment from 2am calls

And it makes async vs sync decisions clearer.

Sometimes the answer isn’t “find a better time”.
Sometimes the answer is “this should be async”.

A real example

This week alone:

• Product in SF
• Engineering in Singapore
• Me bridging both

Having a few predefined, shareable overlap windows immediately shows:

• When a meeting is reasonable
• When it’s unfair
• When async is smarter

That clarity saves more time than any extra meeting ever could.

Inspired by great tools

Shoutout to timezonewizard.com — a great reference.

Zonelyte builds on that idea but leans into:

• presets
• sharing
• repeatability
• team alignment

I’d love your feedback

If you manage a distributed team:

what’s the hardest part for you? 1) finding overlap 2) choosing a fair time 3) avoiding calendar ping-pong Try it:

👉 https://zonelyte.com

If it saves you even one frustrating scheduling thread — it’s already doing its job.