Tymek Zapała

Honestly, it was a huge relief to drop Google Analytics and pick up some simpler tool that work out of the box. It's pretty simple but enough for my needs of tracking traffing on my personal website and small commercial products. Also I really like that it excludes the bot traffic by default.

Vercel cloud is a game changer for quick product validation and development. It provides plug-and-play deployment pipeliens for any Next.js project with sensible defaults. Things like automatic deployments, environment variables and deployment protection work out of the box without any tedious configuration. I recommend Vercel wholeheartedly for any solo developer or indie hacker.

Everhour came up with solid time tracking power-up. I spend quite a lot of time for searching for solution that suits my personal needs and it is so far the best for me. Reporting is really advanced allowing you to view time spent data from multiple boards and filter them to your liking, apply grouping, and then save these views to avoid clicking every time. Very similar to the Trello native feature called “views” so it’s very nice. User experience stands out as it is very polished, “Trello-like”, you almost do not notice that it is the external integration. Also, dark mode support is really polished. All of these qualities are very rare for Trello power-ups. I also liked that you get 2 weeks of free trial - enough to test the product - and the trial is very clearly communicated so you’ll know when it comes to the end. Having feature updates listed inside the power-up window is also nice touch. I was choosing between this, Chronos and Activity power-ups for my usage. Activity is a lot simpler, does not provide reporting activities and is missing the dark mode support - but it’s free so it was a strong candidate. Chronos also have powerful reporting capabilities but again - it’s missing the dark mode, and it do not tell you very directly that it’s a paid power-up, only after you reach the end of the trial. At the end I choose to pay extra for Everhour as it’s really polished and advanced product. I encounter one small bug, on the Timesheet views the table row says “Unavailable member“ instead of my name, so it should be fixed. But it’s a minor thing and it didn’t affect my rating. :)

Really polished and surprisingly inventive yet simple product. It solved my problem of trying to prioritize/plan further actions on many tasks that I have to do - it just forces me to do it right away which is great! :) It has got some minor imperfections as it is early version (mobile version would be cool) but it's still very promising.

I needed tool like this to validate my new project ideas without leaving the Trello board. Especially useful for meetings as you can just screen share the window content. I feel like it would be nice to have option to add new personalized category, it would make a tool more versatile. Clicking on card takes you to the native Trello card view - nice user experience touch.