Intercom — Startups get 90% off Intercom + 1 year of Fin AI Agent free
Startups get 90% off Intercom + 1 year of Fin AI Agent free
Promoted
Beautiful app! Yesterday I signed up for 4-5 different time tracking apps since I'm looking for a replacement for our current app. This looks better than everything I have tried so far! Too bad it doesn't have a osx menu bar app
I'm not a heavy user, and only use time tracking on some projects. I often start the tracker and forget about it. And then I get an email telling me I have a tracker running 24 hours later. The only thing that has worked in the past is a menu bar app extension which is always there showing me a tracker is running and asks me if I want to continue tracking after being idle for 15 minutes.
Hey guys, wow! I woke up this morning to Hours being on the front page of Product Hunt. Thanks everyone! We were planning to officially launch this afternoon but I guess this is it!
We have a lot of work to do and some things may not work correctly but most stuff should work pretty well. I've been learning the hard way that web launches are a whole different animal than app launches. I'll be watching this thread so please feel free to post your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!
Report
@jerols congratulations on an amazing release! Hours has set the bar yet again for time tracking apps! Great work.
@tribaling We still have a lot of work to do but our team is intensely focused on the habit problem. Right now here are a few ways it helps you build a habit:
1) It makes it really easy to switch tasks throughout the day. Most time tracking services require you to either type or select the tasks you are working on. Hours assumes you generally work on the same things day to day and gives you a running list that you can add and subtract from. That makes switching tasks a one click deal. And we are working hard to make that one tap easily accessible — you can do it from your computer, from your lock screen (with notification center widget), from your home screen (3D touch), from the iPhone app itself, or from your Apple Watch.
2) The timeline makes tracking time as you go realistic because you can actually account for each hour in your day. If you missed an hour, you clearly see that on the timeline and can quickly fill it in. If you accidentally had a timer running through lunch, you quickly see that from the timeline and can just drag the end time back 30 minutes. The timeline changes the way you think about time tracking from at the end of the day to moment by moment.
3) Reminders: the app knows when you are supposed to be working and reminds you to start or stop timers based on that. We will be working a lot more to make reminders smarter and smarter.
Those are a few things that are in there today — more to come.
The key difference between Hours and most time tracking apps is that we are focused on tracking time *as you go through the day* as opposed to later. This focus drives features like persistent timers (you don't need to tell us what you work on every day, just start and stop timers on your common tasks) and the visual timeline (see a visual accounting to quickly identify mistakes and edit your time by dragging it around on the timeline).
The goal with these and other features is to turn time tracking as you go into a habit, which means less time trying to calculate your time at the end of the week and more accurate time tracking for companies.
@guygunaratne Hopefully this launch will give us the kind of revenues we need to start working on an Android app — we definitely think it is important. In the mean time, the timers part of the web app is responsive so you could use that for now.
Coda
Coda
TreeExchange
Swap Ideas
Coda
Swap Ideas
Coda
Maven
Coda
Design Buddy
Coda