can you create and send invoices to clients through this?
Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
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Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#22Looks nice, but I actually moved which time-tracker I use only a week ago, to Toggl[1]. Might be missing something, but at a glance I can't see anything obvious this does better to justify $5 a month (I'm on Toggl's free tier, which afaics does everything I need). User interface looks almost identical.
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#23Time tracking and invoicing has to be one of the most over-served application spaces.
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#24I do not know, from the webpage, how this works. This sentence: > "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 g…
No, it's not automatic. You just start a task, work on it and stop it when you're done. How an automatic solution that you use actually works? Does it track usage time for all apps?
Alright. After reading it again I guess I see how I misunderstood that.
I use wakatime.com, it has got plugins for Sublime/Xcode/many-more/etc that tracks time.
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#25can you create and send invoices to clients through this?
Not yet. How would you like this invoices to look?
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#26Looks nice, but I actually moved which time-tracker I use only a week ago, to Toggl[1]. Might be missing something, but at a glance I can't see anything obvious this does better to justify $5 a month (I'm on Toggl's free tier, which afaics does everything I need). User interface looks almost identical. [1] https://www.toggl.com/tour/web
The difference is Freelancy has native versions for OS X, Windows and Linux. Many people still prefer desktop apps to web services, because they give them the feeling ‘it's my own’ and works in any internet conditions, also it could be more convenient to work with a desktop app rather than with a tab in a browser.
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#27Looks nice, but I actually moved which time-tracker I use only a week ago, to Toggl[1]. Might be missing something, but at a glance I can't see anything obvious this does better to justify $5 a month (I'm on Toggl's free tier, which afaics does everything I need). User interface looks almost identical. [1] https://www.toggl.com/tour/web
I’ve been using Toggl for the past month and a bit (that being the tool that the agency that I’m working with at present use). I have found it surprisingly unpleasant.
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.)
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#28Looks nice, but I actually moved which time-tracker I use only a week ago, to Toggl[1]. Might be missing something, but at a glance I can't see anything obvious this does better to justify $5 a month (I'm on Toggl's free tier, which afaics does everything I need). User interface looks almost identical. [1] https://www.toggl.com/tour/web
The difference is Freelancy has native versions for OS X, Windows and Linux. Many people still prefer desktop apps to web services, because they give them the feeling ‘it's my own’ and works in any internet conditions, also it could be more convenient to work with a desktop app rather than with a tab in a browser.
Toggl has native desktop apps also.
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#29Looks nice, but I actually moved which time-tracker I use only a week ago, to Toggl[1]. Might be missing something, but at a glance I can't see anything obvious this does better to justify $5 a month (I'm on Toggl's free tier, which afaics does everything I need). User interface looks almost identical. [1] https://www.toggl.com/tour/web
The difference is Freelancy has native versions for OS X, Windows and Linux. Many people still prefer desktop apps to web services, because they give them the feeling ‘it's my own’ and works in any internet conditions, also it could be more convenient to work with a desktop app rather than with a tab in a browser.
Toggl also has native apps - https://www.toggl.com/tour/desktop
Re: Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money
#30Not at all against paid software, but if I were the freelance programmer, I would write one for myself :)
Why write your own (if you meant "from scratch") when there are bunch of FLOSS software projects that either already suffice user needs or beg for contributions? ;)