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Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by webwright »

bigbang wrote: post #11
sgupta wrote: post #2

I'm Shawn, one of the ididwork.com founders. We'd like to know what you think about the service. Please leave any feedback here or email us at feedback [at] ididwork (dot) com.

The only concern I have is, I might not want to give details to somebody on the tasks Im working(since the projects whatever I do in my company are confidential). This could be a genunine problem for most company employees but for personal tracking its great. EDIT: Same concern over rescuetime which sends all the corporate urls to thier server?

This is the standard concern with any SaaS solution, from Salesforce.com to hosted Gmail to Mint.com to QuickBooks' online offering. We get the objection at RescueTime less often than you might think. When it comes down to it, data about what you did as an individual (whether it's Twitter-like or a passive recording of window/tab titles) isn't THAT valuable/scary.

It's probably likelier that you'd have a disgruntled tech/admin do something untoward with the data on a local version of the app.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by danw »

semerda wrote: post #46

"Micromanagement" and "Time Poor" - 2 concerns that scream out when I look at this product. RescueTime did a fantastic job at removing the "time poor" component for keeping track of where you spend your time, hence living up to its name. Having worked in the corporate world and in start-ups I can tell you now that most corporate clients already have a time sheet system that is a pain in the a . Employees spend at lea…

As a developer I solve this by importing an RSS feed of my subversion commits and trac tickets. I then only have to manually add other stuff such as any topic I spent time reading up on or researching.

Re: Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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Post by dangrover »

danw wrote: post #63
semerda wrote: post #46

"Micromanagement" and "Time Poor" - 2 concerns that scream out when I look at this product. RescueTime did a fantastic job at removing the "time poor" component for keeping track of where you spend your time, hence living up to its name. Having worked in the corporate world and in start-ups I can tell you now that most corporate clients already have a time sheet system that is a pain in the a . Employees spend at lea…

As a developer I solve this by importing an RSS feed of my subversion commits and trac tickets. I then only have to manually add other stuff such as any topic I spent time reading up on or researching.

I have something very similar for a dashboard-like interface I use to figure out what's going on in my ISV.

Here's what it looks like: http://files.dangrover.com/wwactivity.png

That's sales (integrated with the order system), SVN commits, wiki edits, bug tickets.

There's also a pane that shows yearly/monthly/daily goals for sales.

I'm going to have it keep track of my releases too, just so that I can quickly update the site, appcasts, etc and have it tell me when a major release is getting long in the tooth.

Since I use Mint for web stats, I've thought about joining that in just to try to correlate hits/sales, but haven't gotten around to it. Too meta :)

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