A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800 So I Replaced It with a Homelab

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Post by torrinleonard » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC

A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800 So I Replaced It with a Homelab
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Re: A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800 So I Replaced It with a Homelab

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Post by KomoD » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC

Bending Spoons acquired Harvest so I can't say I'm surprised. Someone on Reddit went from $170 to $2,162.50/month.

Also what's the reason for making all the links into buttons but then styling them as regular links? It's quite annoying not being able to middle click or right click any of them.

Re: A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800 So I Replaced It with a Homelab

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Post by torrinleonard » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 5:16 AM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #2

Bending Spoons acquired Harvest so I can't say I'm surprised. Someone on Reddit went from $170 to $2,162.50/month. Also what's the reason for making all the links into buttons but then styling them as regular links? It's quite annoying not being able to middle click or right click any of them.

My whole website is built with a component library I've been building for a couple years: https://torrin.me/destamatic-ui

All the blog posts on my site use a markdown renderer I built so I thought I'd try using buttons for the links since they are themed nicely with the rest of the library. I'll add the ability to right/middle click on buttons with hrefs so they work like proper anchor tags.