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Show HN: Time tracking with Trello, what do you think?

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7 pointsfeketegy6 comments

Before looking at your tool, I think that there are already many tools for time tracking with Trello.

You are right, a few good tools out there. This is just our take on it, we like simple things :)

Most tools require some form of manual work, starting a timer, installing an extension, entering hours by hand etc.

We developed Rotor for our internal use some time ago because it allowed us to track time with no interference and keep using Trello as we had before (it tracks the time cards spend in defined list/s where we would move then anyway - ex : from To Do to Doing).

We thought others might be interested as well so we made it public.

Glad you like the landing page :D, my partner will appreciate that, tried to make it simple and informative.

> You are right, a few good tools out there. This is just our take on it, we like simple things :)

I used to have a really simple way to track time, back in the pre-cloud days: music CDs.

Put on CD, hit play, start working on something billable to a particular client. When the CD ends, put on another. When done working on stuff for that client, add up the total time of the pile of played CDs, and that's the time to bill that client.

That did require manual action, but since I was going to listen to music while I worked anyway it was not really any extra work.

After looking at it, I can say the service nice, simple, well-explained. I like the landing page with all that textual explanation. I think other services out there could have that same kind of landing page. On the other hand, I don't know if the general public would think like me.

I'm not interested in time-tracking, so I will not try the service.

I might be part of general public, although I do write code for living, and I would like to point out that the landing page is not simple to grasp.

I suggest there should be a short story of why to use it and then how to use it explained in 3 simple steps so that the general public get it.

We changed the landing page

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