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Ask HN: What do you use for time tracking
As a freelancer, its important that I accurately track and bill my time. I think a lot of us end up guessing about time on projects and tend to under-bill.
What do you use for time tracking?
(I am writing an app that 'solves' time tracking in a new way and am trying to determine which services I should target for integration. Currently supporting Harvest, what else is important?)
Please post the name of your time tracking weapon of choice so we can see whats popular.
- superchink 15y agoHarvest here
- kroger 15y agoI love Hamster [1], but since I switched from Linux to the Mac I haven't found anything like it. [1] http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/ http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/
- dangrossman 15y agoA pen and notepad
- ilcavero 15y agomanic time
- damoncali 15y agoa spreadsheet
- christocracy 15y agoI've been giving freshbooks $20/month for the last couple years http://freshbooks.com http://freshbooks.com
- brudgers 15y agoWhen I track time, I like to use half days. A half day is the most meaningful chunk of work progress and, of course, it is flexible - I hate keeping track of quarter hours or worrying about remembering that I stopped to talk to the UPS driver. I've even written contracts with half days as the basic billing unit - and once I explain to clients that it means I may not bill them for a quick email, they pretty much get it. I track half days with a pencil and calendar, and write a short description of what I did.
- b3b0p 15y agoI've been using this. Print them out every week. I find them easy to keep track with since I switch tasks often. http://davidseah.com/blog/node/the-emergent-task-timer/ http://davidseah.com/blog/node/the-emergent-task-timer/
- olegious 15y agofreshbooks.com - time tracking and invoicing in one package.
- MattBearman 15y agoI use Freshbooks as well, so far it's been well worth $20 / month, but if you don't have many clients/projects you can use it for free.
- Todd 15y agoI've been pretty happy with toggl. https://www.toggl.com/ https://www.toggl.com/
- timgluz 15y agoI'm using Yast, cool startup from Norway. I picked this one because it works on desktop and Iphone, possible to add subprojects with different pricing model, share data with another team-members/freelancers, comprehensive reports and has very good API. URL: http://www.yast.com/ http://www.yast.com/
- iworkforthem 15y agohttp://www.tickspot.com/ http://www.tickspot.com/ is also pretty good. Paid version sync to Basecamp.