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Busy Panda - Forever Free Time Tracking

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Stop guessing your hours. Start tracking like a panda.

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Stop guessing your hours. Start tracking like a panda.

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Hey 👋 I built Busy Panda because most time trackers are either too simple to be useful or too expensive to bother with. With Busy Panda you can: Start/stop a running timer in one click Organize time entries by project (with custom colors) Add optional notes to each entry See report totals and a project breakdown chart Keep everything private and separated per user It's lightweight (PHP + MySQL + vanilla JS), easy to self-host, and free of subscription nags. Would love your feedback!

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Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Time Tracking

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What inspired you to build this? What problem were you trying to solve? Every time tracker I looked at — Clockify, Toggl, Harvest — eventually hits a paywall. Basic time tracking shouldn't require a subscription. I wanted something free, simple, and self-hostable: track a timer, tag it to a project, see where your time actually goes. No premium tier gatekeeping the features you need on day one. How did your approach or process evolve while working on this launch? I started as minimal as possible — just start/stop a timer and log it against a project. Once that core loop worked, I layered on the rest: project colors, notes on entries, and finally report totals with a project chart so people could actually see their time, not just record it. Kept scope tight the whole way so it stayed something you could set up in five minutes rather than a bloated app pretending to be simple.

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Busy Panda, a forever free time tracker built out of frustration with paywalled tools

Hi everyone! Excited (and a little nervous) to share Busy Panda with you today.

The problem: Every time tracker I tried - Clockify, Toggl, Harvest - eventually gated the features you actually need behind a paywall. Basic time tracking (a timer, projects, real reports) shouldn't require a subscription. It's not complex enough to justify that.

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