Assista

Hello hunters and thanks @chrismessina for the hunt! Marin here – one of the makers of assista.io. We are thrilled to share our product with the Product Hunt community! 😍 Assista was born inside Camplight - a 20 member cooperative specializing in creating digital experiences. We are developers that needed a time-tracking solution that integrates with our Kanban flow inside Trello and couldn’t find anything that suited us. So we built exactly what we wanted. Let’s face it - nobody really needs time-tracking software. What we need is the data - knowing how much time a specific task took. Checking what you worked on last Thursday while the kids were at home and needed your attention. Making more data-driven decisions about the scope of your next project. Billing your clients transparently and fairly. What we don’t need is the boring and unnecessary actions of logging timesheets on a Friday night. Or starting and stopping timers every time you start working on a new Github issue. You know, all the manual work that nobody really likes doing. Assista is effortless and powerful at the same time. Say, you have three lists on your Trello board - “To Do”, “Doing” and “Done”. Move a card to the “Doing” list and Assista will start counting time for that card. Move it to “Done” and it will stop. All the data, without any of the manual work. Currently, Assista is being used by freelancers, small teams, big teams, and enterprises. 🎁 If you work in Trello and you need a time-tracking solution, we are currently offering 1 month free with code “PHFREE” for everyone in the PH community. 🎁 If not, we would be grateful if you spread the word about Assista and give us some feedback here. Finally, follow us on Twitter - we are building in public and we are an open startup because we believe in transparency.

Congrats Marin and the team on the launch. Are you planning to support other tools in the future (beyond Trello)? Somehow, I would assume yes and it will depend on the success of this product for Trello.

love it

Assista sounds super useful. As fellow developers, we can totally relate to the need of wanting data to determine the duration of specific tasks so we can improve our processes. Having this time-tracking feature embedded in Trello can certainly make our lives so much easier. Great work by Marin @troll_lock & the team behind Assista for developing such a nifty solution. Congrats on your PH launch!

Long term Assista user here. Best time tracking workflow I've used ever. Mainly because it stays out of your way and at the end of the month you get the reports you need.

I really love how unobtrusive this time tracking solution is! I've been using it for a long time. This thing has definitely made my life easier. No more pushing buttons to start/stop time tracking. At the end of the month I can just export my tracked time in a convenient format and use the data for billing or equity allocation. Bonus points for the ease it tracks time for discussions/workshops/meetings cards <3 Oh... one last thing, the reporting tools provide info for the whole Trello board. One can see the time spent of all team members. At first I thought that this was a bit "stalky" and can lead to some warped behavior. But I found out it actually helped me with talking openly in the team about monthly time commitments.

Using Assista for about 5 years, it is the best. Simple and powerful.