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Re: Ding.io

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Post by kbar13 »

notduncansmith wrote: post #60
kbar13 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when someone posted their free-for-use stock photos of Apple products and a lot of people talked a lot of smack about his photos? It's interesting how I see them on a lot of product pages now.

I love Unsplash, who's talking shit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794083

:(

Re: Ding.io

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Post by GjermundG »

shawn-butler wrote: post #59
nate_martin wrote: post #13

The product itself looks really nice, but the pricing model doesn't really seem like a good fit. I think a freemium model would work better than a subscription based one.

Or include invoicing for the price. By itself time tracking isn't worth $10 month to me. From the work so far, I look forward to what they could do to simplify invoicing.

I take that as a compliment, thanks. We have no plans of changing the price, so every new feature we add will be included into the existing plan, giving you more bang for the buck.

There's been quite a few requests regarding invoicing, and while I won't promise anything in the short term, we'll work hard to make Ding better in the future. People requested a start/stop-timer which we just implemented, so we do listen and take your feedback seriously.

Re: Ding.io

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Post by GjermundG »

maxmcd wrote: post #27

The homepage has no JS other than analytics and cloudflare, and css/html is super clean. Quite a nice departure from the typical bootstrap+jquery combo.

I love the fact that you inspected the code :)

We're fans of Bootstrap and jQuery ourselves, but believe in giving Ding the custom treatment. Time tracking is a crowded space after all.

Re: Ding.io

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Post by lugg »

welder wrote: post #42
wavesounds wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now it looks like $10 or $25 a month for a stop watch app. If I was a customer this one would have scared me away. I'm on my phone if that makes a difference.

They have a 45 day free trial[1] Suggestion: add text below the green signup button saying, "Free 45 day trial, no credit card required". I think that would also help increase signup rates. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246383

I'd suggest, if there isn't enough signups happening, free for solo usage, cost for teams might be the way to go. Get people hooked using it for their own time to the point they make work pay for it for the whole team.

Re: Ding.io

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Post by artemradchenko »

svennis wrote: post #49
artemradchenko wrote: post #37

Good job! I like the interfaces. Haven't found option for piece-rate projects though. Do you have any plans on the matter ? Another guess: I think some API features would be extremely useful for such a service.

Thanks for the feedback, I agree it would be useful to have the option to set a fixed price for a project. We actually did some wireframes for this a while back, but we never got around to implementing it. Maybe now would be a good time to look at it again. What API features are you thinking about? We have a pretty limited API that we built for the iPhone app, but it's growing as we work on the next version of the ap…

Thank you for the answer! I see two directions for API: one is an integration with existing services api such as RescueTime, and the other is own api to give such opportunity to fellow developers. For example any task manager service can use time-tracking and project/profit management functions at your service via API.
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