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

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Post by nodesocket »

overshard wrote: post #49
nodesocket wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right on. You going to charge (hosted solution)? I'd like to support you.

I don't really have any interest in making money on this project and I feel like a hosted solution defeats the purpose. The best support you could give is writing some issues on GitHub, testing things, helping with documentation, or submitting some features.

Will do. You should think about charging, it is a forcing function and prevents you from working on the wrong features (developer creep)

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

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Post by nikoftime »

jefflombardjr wrote: post #18
overshard wrote: post #12

Hello HN, developer here. I started this Friday night because I wanted something much simpler than all the options I was given and something that I could host myself. There is a lot to do on this project still and I wanted to see what the reception was for the start. Timestrap currently does fully support time tracking and CSV exports for multiple projects and tasks. It has a full REST API and admin panel. Invoicing…

I don't know if I speak for other users, but rather than focusing on invoicing, why not tie into Quickbooks? Or similar services. i.e. There's already invoicing software. If the integration between the timesheets is the only differentiator, why rewrite the invoicing part?

If you're interested, I built www.minute7.com which is a time (and expense) tracker that does integrate directly with Intuit's QuickBooks (we're even near the top of their app store listing on apps.intuit.com as the only major player without major funding and a huge sales team :)

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

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Post by mandeepj »

overshard wrote: post #12

Hello HN, developer here. I started this Friday night because I wanted something much simpler than all the options I was given and something that I could host myself. There is a lot to do on this project still and I wanted to see what the reception was for the start. Timestrap currently does fully support time tracking and CSV exports for multiple projects and tasks. It has a full REST API and admin panel. Invoicing…

> I started this Friday night Great speed. Congrats on shipping

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

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Post by icc97 »

tedmiston wrote: post #41

This is super nice and much simpler than all of the other software I've been using to cobble together work logging + time tracking + invoicing this past year. After trying Toggl, Harvest, and everything else I totally understand why you built it. The only changes I'd like to see are: allowing one to log the time work is started (not just the date), a confirmation before deleting data that can't be recovered, and a wa…

Having start and end dates I find is much more easy to add in.

But they all need to be part of the same task for one day.

If I've forgotten to start a timer, it's easy for me to look at my browsing history and make a good guess when I started / finished.

Figuring out duration when you stop and start on a task multiple times becomes a pain.

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

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Post by sne11ius »

overshard wrote: post #44
tedmiston wrote: post #41

This is super nice and much simpler than all of the other software I've been using to cobble together work logging + time tracking + invoicing this past year. After trying Toggl, Harvest, and everything else I totally understand why you built it. The only changes I'd like to see are: allowing one to log the time work is started (not just the date), a confirmation before deleting data that can't be recovered, and a wa…

The time work is started is something I'm debating with myself on. I think I will add start + end date + time since it would help with making a timer persistent across pages/connection issues. Confirmation is a must, mistakes happen! Filters/reporting is coming over the next week, also a must, what's the point of time tracking if you can't compile reports of your time.

+1 for start/stop times because that's how I keep my data now. I have been looking for a simple solution like this for quite some time. Also: thank you OP

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

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Post by patrickdavey »

beilabs wrote: post #48

if anyone wants a nice CLI tool then Timetrap is pretty awesome, been using it for years. https://github.com/samg/timetrap

Yup, that's what I've been running. Really like it, especially after I made a very simple little "on off" widget to display on my tmux status line. No more forgetting I have a timer running :)

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

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Post by dyu- »

overshard wrote: post #49
nodesocket wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right on. You going to charge (hosted solution)? I'd like to support you.

I don't really have any interest in making money on this project and I feel like a hosted solution defeats the purpose. The best support you could give is writing some issues on GitHub, testing things, helping with documentation, or submitting some features.

Paid feature requests. If the user (like the GP) wants a certain feature and don't want to implement it himself, accepting his offer to pay would benefit both parties.
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