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Invoicing from code stats - Generate PDF invoices from your code stats

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Auto-fill your pdf invoices with the projects and hours you worked from your WakaTime dashboard.

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Hey Product Hunters 👋 I'm Alan, the maker of WakaTime. After years of independent contracting and filling out invoices, forgetting how much time I worked, and a general headache, I thought there must be a better way. That's why I built WakaTime Invoicing. WakaTime Invoicing is an automatic time tracking app that knows what you worked on and for how long, then fills out your PDF invoices automatically. 💻 Knows what you worked on ⏰ Knows how long you worked 📅 Automatically creates PDF invoices containing your projects and hours Let WakaTime run in the background and when it's time to bill, your invoice is generated for you. I'd love to hear your feedback and hope you'll check it out!
Really nice to see Wakatime releasing another product. One question though: Since working on a coding project doesn't necessarily mean actual coding about 50% of the time, with research, debugging, meeting, etc, does the product take that into account? Otherwise we would be bill only for time coding instead of these other crucial work.
This is an absolutely valid concern. We spend more time doing research and imagining/thinking scenarios than the actual coding.
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great question! First, you can always add or edit line items on your invoice. For meetings, try out our Google Calendar integration: Then increase your keystroke timeout preference: Together these two normally cover all billable hours. I've also written a blog post on the same topic if you're interested: Finally, with over 79 plugins already, there's a good chance we can add support for any tools you're using.
Congratulations on the launch of Invoicing from code stats! However, this way of counting may have loopholes that bring two results: one, unreasonable estimation of programmers' output, and two, some “clever” programmers can easily exploit this loophole. What do you think?
Maker
they can always put whatever hours they want on their invoice... they can even edit their WakaTime invoice and double or triple the hours before sending it. That's between the programmer and their client. The main benefit of WakaTime is helping the contractor keep track of their hours and remember to bill for all the time they worked, so the programmer is the one using WakaTime and their client never needs to know where the PDF was created.
Congrats on the launch of WakaTime Invoicing! 🎉 I'm so excited to check it out and I know it's going to be a lifesaver for enterpreneurs like me. I'm already thinking of all the people I know who will benefit from this – goodbye manual time tracking and invoicing! 🤩 I'm definitely gonna be recommending it to everyone I know, especially the freelancers and small business owners. 🤗 Keep up the great work! 🤗
Maker
thanks!! 😁
Would be great for a self hosted version, for privacy reasons. Or just even be able to disable some parts that are sendt to your server.
Maker
that's definitely supported, here's more info about disabling folders and files:
Must have for all freelancers! Congratulations on the launch! How do you resolve the privacy issues? Invoices contain some pretty important private info
Maker
thank you! We keep the invoice info private only to you, unless you download the PDF and send it to your client of course 😉
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Congratulations! I've been using Wakatime in the past. This new feature is definitely a must for freelancers! It would be more professional and credible if the bill could be sent directly from Wakatime.
Maker
that's definitely on our roadmap! First we want to add the ability to pay with a direct link from the invoice, via Stripe.
Sounds great.
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Congratulations on the launch of Invoicing from code stats! I'm so excited to experience how much easier it will make managing my projects and hours!
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Very Cool. Some clients really love to know in detail what we work on. Wonder if its possible to put commit messages as a "Task" in the invoice. I find that it does take a while to fill go back and fill up the invoice details (Invoice-driven developement). Especially since we almost always forget what we coded just few days ago.
Maker
great idea!
Congratulations on launching this great new product! It looks like an awesome way to simplify invoicing and save time. What inspired you to create this?
Maker
thanks! The video above explains my inspiration.
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