This looks really fantastic. I love the design and after spending a few minutes reading your blog it seems like you care a great deal about every decision you make.
Thank you! It's hard to compete on features alone, so we try to sweat the details.
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#52Just downloaded, it looks great. Great design, really pleasing to use and look at. Lots of small attention to detail that makes it feel nice (eg, calendar picker with large trailing dates into future and past selected month). One note: I'm interested in just using for time tracking for personal productivity, but it feels more like it's built around use cases for consultants / free lancers (eg, client name being requi…
Thanks a lot. As the designer, I'm thrilled to hear you recognize and appreciate the details. We'll certainly keep on refining those in the future.
You're right: Ding is built for freelancers and small teams who do consulting. Preferably those who operate with an hourly rate, so you can keep track of the money earned. To maintain the simplicity of Ding, we try to avoid different modes and settings whenever we can, but sometimes they prove necessary. Your use case seems like something that's not quite core to our product, but it's certainly an interesting perspective that we'll brainstorm around. Would you be willing to pay for something you only use for personal needs?
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#53kudos, the site has a clean interface. Though I have no idea how to use the site properly. Is there any tour guide to the side or a simple welcome page on how to use it?
I'm glad you like it. Thanks!
I agree that a "get started" page could be a neat thing, and the onboarding experience is something we're planning to overhaul. Ding should however be quite simple: create a project and log time. As you log your hours, you can easily see the time spent and the money made.
If you want to filter out and export your time entries, it's possible in the Overview section.
I hope you'll give it a shot. If you're stuck, shoot me an email at gjermund@ding.io and I'll get to you asap.
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#54The UI is nice, but I think nothing beats automation. I use RescueTime [1], which is surprisingly _accurate_ measuring my time. I use it for years now and I'm very satisfied with it. No need for "administrative overhead". [1] https://www.rescuetime.com/
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.
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#55I've just started using Harvest but I like what I see here, too. I'm not sure there is enough of a difference (price, features) to make me switch but I see potential and the price is competitive.
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#56I agree with the other people in this thread, this is a beautiful looking app. I think one thing you may want to clarify is whether this is available in a browser, as it seems that this is an app to download.
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#57I've just started using Harvest but I like what I see here, too. I'm not sure there is enough of a difference (price, features) to make me switch but I see potential and the price is competitive.
You're more than welcome to give Ding a shot. It's free for the 45 first days, so you have nothing to lose :) I think you'll appreciate its clean UI and simple approach, and if there's anything keeping you from using it, shoot me an email at gjermund@ding.io and I'll see what we can do.
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#58I like the happy hippo behind the mba on the landing page :) All in all its a great introduction to the service, really well put together.
I'm glad to hear you like it. Thanks!
The hippo is a Danish design classic from 1955 made by Kay Bojesen: http://www.kaybojesen-denmark.com/
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#59The 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.
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#60The UI is nice, but I think nothing beats automation. I use RescueTime [1], which is surprisingly _accurate_ measuring my time. I use it for years now and I'm very satisfied with it. No need for "administrative overhead". [1] https://www.rescuetime.com/
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?