Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
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* Not everyone bills hourly. Include daily and weekly rates.
* It took me a while to figure out how to add a project when wanting to create a time log. Maybe have a "Quick Add" option in the projects dropdown?
* Include currency support. I've found that a lot more companies than I expected price in multiple currencies.
* The "Add Manual" time function could be a little more prominent. Not everyone will want to use a timer.
Best of luck!
I tried to use Freckle but I always forgot to start the timer or to stop it.
So one day I had the idea to mix the concept of the Pomodoro Technique time management with usual time trackers and Tomatoes[1] born.
Tomatoes is a open source web-based time tracker that helps you track your time while optimizing your time and keeping you productive using the Pomodoro Technique. It really helped me a lot.
[1] http://tomato.es
$5 is less than the coffee I bought (and <$100 a year) and easy for me to immediately pull the trigger on.
Especially with the prolificity of well-established competitors I would keep the price lower, at least until the product is more established.
$10 a month for almost any kind of freelance job is a drop in the bucket. Raise your prices.
> "Are you tired of counting the time you have actually worked? Let Freelancy do it for you."
Leads me to believe it is automatic tracking, is that the case? It does not look like that.
I am currently using an fully automatic time tracker which I am extremely happy with. I will note that the one I use does not include any form of money etc. But it does give you an HH:MM breakdown of each days work, based on project.
I use wakatime.com, it has got plugins for Sublime/Xcode/many-more/etc that tracks time.
I was tempted to try it out just to see what it was. I'm not sure if the lack of product info will encourage more people to try your product. But ultimately you'll have to figure out how it affects conversions
As my comment may already suggest, I did not try the product. I wasn't sure about how much of a pain it would be to set up just to try it and then realize it's not something I'm looking for. Hope the feedback helps!
When I started, they were just switching from their old site to their new site; in view of this, some issues are to be grudgingly accepted as not unexpected (though I will boldly say that it is not acceptable, and I would not consider it acceptable in a product of my own), and poor support@ response times are in consequence unsurprising also.
I was unable to log in for almost a week as their sign up with Google functionality was broken—when I tried to sign up, it complained that I had been invited. When it was finally fixed up, it still didn’t work, for it let me create an account but then not to log in. I got fed up with that and so gained access via “forgot password”. This worked as a temporary workaround. I got my first response back from their support email address after I had resolved it all myself, about a week after the enquiry.
Just about every time I log out, my session is dropped, and I need to log in again. If I tell it to “remember me” and then click on “sign in with Google”, then after going through oAuth, it tries to sign up instead, and complains that I already have an account.
Keyboard accessibility is dodgy; if you get to any form of entering times afterwards, don’t even bother trying to use the keyboard for navigation. It doesn’t understand most date formats either, and is excessively frustrating about its handling of times, showing no intelligence in AM/PM guessing whatsoever.
Bulk editing is very buggy—it normally makes a mess of the day that a task was done on, shifting it to the day before or the day after—and it doesn’t let you work with more than one day’s results at a time, which makes it not very much of a bulk edit. Certain other things in bulk editing are broken also.
My boss said to me last week that he was strongly considering replacing Toggl altogether, because it’s just keeping on getting worse, rather than better. (The general opinion around me seems to be that, despite there being certain improvements in the new one, the old one was distinctly better and less buggy.)
One thing I couldn't work how to do was add a new project. Kept showing "No project" for me and I could see now way of adding new projects?
Profile is misspelled in: "go to Profie > More Options"
- "Is trial fully functional?" -> "Is the trial fully functional?"
- "it's only $5/month with 14 days trial period." -> "it's only $5/month with a 14 day trial period."
- "install the app on unlimited number of devices." -> "install the app on an unlimited number of devices."
Those are just a few minor ones - it may be worth proof-reading the rest of your copy more thoroughly, given that I noticed those in <30 seconds.
Good luck!
Even just good applications for logging worked hours. Currently I just use a spreadsheet to log when I get to work, and when I leave.
Is there a way to export the data with all details?
Additionally, it would be great to have the option to store the data in your own data store (e.g. remoteStorage).
I don't really get you on your own data store—the app syncs with remote CouchDB, do you mean the ability to specify your own remote URL to sync?
With regards to data storage: the idea is to connect a remote data store like tent.io oder remotestorage.io