Been having some great conversations here lately, and one thing keeps coming up: most tools that try to answer "is my team working" actually only answer "was my team present." Those aren't the same question, but we treat them like they are.
For field and delivery roles, presence often is the job, showing up at the right place at the right time matters. But for remote knowledge work, presence tells you almost nothing. Someone can be "checked in" for 8 hours and get nothing meaningful done, or be checked in for 2 hours and ship something great.
Building Trackly has forced me to actually separate these two problems instead of bundling them. GPS/check-in solves presence for field teams. But productivity, the "what actually got done" side, needs a completely different signal: milestones, outcomes, client acknowledgments, not location data.
Real story. A client hired someone fully remote. Guy logged full days, submitted timesheets, collected paychecks for months.
Turns out he was working two other full-time jobs at the same time. My client had zero way to prove it, and zero way to catch it earlier. He just... trusted the timesheet.
That broke something for me. So I built Trackly. GPS check-in/check-out, offline sync, made for teams where "I was on-site" needs to actually mean something (construction, delivery, field service, remote staff).
I have few users right now. This is my first real post anywhere about it, so I'm not here to sell you. I'm here because I genuinely don't know if I'm solving the right problem the right way.
