General State of play
We now have our blog in the public domain as well as the 1time product. I’m just going to give you a brief explanation of where 1time is and what’s in store for the future of this product.
1time came about from our own requirements as a web and software development company. We needed a way to keep track of hours which translated to labor cost on each project. A client of ours also requested a similar program so we developed with our client and ourselves in mind. After the project was complete we realized their was a market for this type of software as a hosted solution and 1time was born.
The main benefits of 1time as a time-tracking solution are:
- Email Reminders for employees(daily) and managers(weekly summarizing employees timesheets not filled out)
- easy to use and setup
- no software required (web-based, accessible through your browser)
- accessible from anywhere with an internet connection
- Company wide reduction in non-billable time (quick ROI)
- Real time project and employee cost overviews
- Track other project expenses
Some software feature upgrades on our roadmap
- xml and CSV exports
- excel and PDF reports
- general API
- more industry tasks sets on registration
- available in other languages
- and much much more…
Pricing
When we have finalized the pricing we will update the website accordingly. The general pricing structure will be based on the number of employees in your company. A one and two person company may be free to use the software. All other plans will be charged on a monthly subscription basis.
Thanks for your time and I really look forward to tons and tons of feedback over the next few months, so if you have any comments please let us know at 1time@jeebers.com or in the feedback link at the bottom of every page in your 1time system.
Thats all for now, more to come…
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on March 22nd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Looks great. Something you might consider when you have your API implemented is a simple desktop app timer.
Something that would download the current project list, display an icon in the taskbar and allow a simple two click operation to start, stop and select project you are currently working on. Then upload the times during the day.
on March 22nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Hi Alan, great idea, we’ve had something similar in mind possibly using konfabulator but I think your suggestion would be more succinct. Also we are looking into putting an ajax type timer at the bottom of the timesheet overview page.
on March 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
The only problem with the ajax type timer and similar solutions is IE. If i click on a link in another app it opens the url in what ever IE window is open (getting rid of the timer). Firefox is great that it opens a new tab.
on March 23rd, 2006 at 4:45 pm
indeed, but the webpage would not need to be open in order for it to keep track of the time. the mechanism for recording the time would be sperate from the client window. So when you login again you can see how much time has passed since you started the timer. Also, potentially you would be able to pause that timer and start another at any time, so You could have 4 timers for 4 differnt tasks in the day and at the end of the day comit the timers to timesheets. This is just an idea at the moment the details i’m sure will iron themselfs out though.
on April 21st, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Just signed up! FYI: Your Ts&Cs link jumps to the sign up page; can’t find Ts&Cs anywhere?! Just thought you should know…
on May 19th, 2006 at 12:02 am
I’ve fixed that now, thanks for the heads up.
on February 14th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Hi
Regarding your Konfabulator idea. We have been developing a solution along the same lines as you with a web-hosted service, but with a client-side app for a more simple/intuitive experience. In fact we have created a prototype using c##.net and soap/xml web service. The c##.net app sits on the users desktop and allows them to start/stop tasks on their list of user-defined favourites. We were thinking of bringing this to market as an open source project. Would you be interested in collaboration?
Mark