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Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

#3

Post by bdcravens »

drcross wrote: post #2

Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.

"I've setup an instance on Heroku of Timestrap that resets every 10 minutes if you want to play with it."

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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bdcravens wrote: post #3
drcross wrote: post #2

Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.

"I've setup an instance on Heroku of Timestrap that resets every 10 minutes if you want to play with it."

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Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

#5

Post by jlgosse »

bdcravens wrote: post #3
drcross wrote: post #2

Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.

"I've setup an instance on Heroku of Timestrap that resets every 10 minutes if you want to play with it."

I mean, did you expect better from a user named 'drcross'? Also, if you took the time to click through the link you quote yourself, you would see the following, mostly useless message: "If you don't have a user yet create one via the CLI. If you need more users add them via the admin panel."

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by gnud »

This looks nice! I fail to see any use for the dashboard, though - especially as you can't drill down into the timesheets from the pretty graphs.

I think the quickest, most prominent action should be to start tracking a task - or change which task is currently tracked.

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by bdcravens »

jlgosse wrote: post #5
bdcravens wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I've setup an instance on Heroku of Timestrap that resets every 10 minutes if you want to play with it."

I mean, did you expect better from a user named 'drcross'? Also, if you took the time to click through the link you quote yourself, you would see the following, mostly useless message: "If you don't have a user yet create one via the CLI. If you need more users add them via the admin panel."

The next line after what I quoted: "The username and password are set to the same as the Quickstart ones." (admin/changeme123)

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by overshard »

gnud wrote: post #6

This looks nice! I fail to see any use for the dashboard, though - especially as you can't drill down into the timesheets from the pretty graphs. I think the quickest, most prominent action should be to start tracking a task - or change which task is currently tracked.

I agree the dashboard is pretty worthless, I made it because I wanted to fiddle around with some Charts. The best thing would be what you're saying is tracking tasks.

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by largehotcoffee »

drcross wrote: post #2

Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.

Agreed. That should be the bare minimum to show something like this off.

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by overshard »

drcross wrote: post #2

Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.

Some screenshots would be useful but I'm still rapidly developing Timestrap and the interface is getting stuff added to it every few hours so I feel like it'd be a wasted effort on my part right now.

EDIT: Added some screenshots to the bottom of the readme

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