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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about this goal tracker and time management tool?
Satistime (www.satistime.com) is an online tool that combines To Do List + Goal Planner/Tracker + Calendar. It streamlines the whole process from goal setting to daily routine - all the while being easy to use. What are your thoughts about the website? Any feedback is welcome so that we can make it better! Thank you
- neuroticfish 8y agoSaturated market and personally something that has never worked for me -- I'll try one out for a week, forget about it for a few months, and then try a different one before continuing the cycle. I suspect my experience is not unique and that if your implementation of a ubiquitous product is going to succeed it has to bring something innovative to the table.
- deniza 7y agoIt seems that we need to communicate the difference of the product better.. Thanks for the feedback!
- ikarandeep 8y agoThe registration page is a little weak. Maybe add some info as to what the user is registering for. The page doesn't give any info.
- deniza 7y agoYes the registration page will need improvements, thank you!
- bachmeier 8y agoThis is an extremely crowded market. Your website makes it look like just another one of dozens and dozens of such apps. Anyone wanting me to even look at a new app (much less start a free trial and actually use it) is going to have to make a heck of a case as to what you do that others don't. "You’re more effective when you don’t feel overwhelmed. Satistime is a goal tracker and time management tool that helps entrepreneurs build online businesses—one task at a time." This sounds like every other task management app on the market. You might have a great product but the website needs to be more effective. On a more specific note - do you allow file uploads? Without that, task lists are incomplete. It goes against "it’s got everything bundled together".
- deniza 7y agoThank you for the feedback! File upload is not currently there but working on it
- muzani 7y agoIt's a nice idea. But at this point I've tried many of these kinds of sites and they never had any real effect. Currently doing bullet journaling, which works parallel to this. But IMO the main feature any such tool needs is accessibility, as short as possible from brain to check box. This would probably work best as an app for that reason. No login needed, no need to deal with the lag of opening a browser.
- quickthrower2 7y agoYeah this idea of tracking time is blue collar thinking. Are CEOs doing this? Usually at companies where they are logging everyone’s time and scrutinising it, the CEO, exec team and perhaps managers are exempt from needing to log their time. But as programmers (and related creative jobs like BA, UX, Graphics, Architect etc) I think it is also folly to track time to the minute. As long as you can track what has been delivered by the team over the last X weeks in production, you’ve got a fair idea if they are worth the money. Whether I took 2 or 4 hours to fix a bug, well if you trust me not to have popped to the beach and claimed it took 4 there is no business for a company to track it, and there is no need for me to personally track it either. Instead you want yourself to be passionate about becoming great at your craft as a pragmatist. A good balance about knowing the ide way to do things, the quick and the slow way and how to choose wisely. These are the sorts of people you want to employ. A personal standard is I won’t take a job where they track my time. And I don’t track my own time for work or side projects.
- muzani 7y agoPlenty of CEOs schedule meetings. That's pretty much the same thing. Tracking time is just allocating some time off to do a thing. But it's entirely different reasoning. Their job is more to make decisions as it comes or at least to link together people who can solve a problem or make a decision, and track it for their own uses. Most of the things managers do don't apply to people who do the work, e.g. waking up at 4 AM, working long hours. Scheduling interrupts flow, and is thus very bad for creative workers. But tracking time isn't so bad. I track all my work, partly to estimate things like how long a page takes to set up, or how long it takes to build a dashboard.
- mattmanser 7y agoYou should use Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html