Wireless communications systems may support user equipment (UE)-specific hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timeline offsets such that transmission time intervals (TTIs) reserved for uplink HARQ transmissions are reserved on a per UE basis (e.g., TTIs are not reserved or designated on a network level or aligned across all or many UEs within the system). That is, UEs within a wireless communications system may employ a UE-specific offset for their respective HARQ timelines. UE-specific HARQ timeline offsets may be derived, by the UEs, explicitly or implicitly. Further, the network (e.g., a base station) may configure UE-specific HARQ timeline offsets to be distributed in time to avoid uplink HARQ transmission collisions between UEs, to eliminate the loss of TTIs for a second carrier operation (e.g., such as NR uplink) on a network wide basis, etc. The base station may then communicate with the UEs according to their corresponding UE-specific offset HARQ timelines.