Hey there. Yes, of course, we love freelancers! Timely (with Memory AI) already works great for a freelancer and we have special pricing for exactly that.
Hello everybody :) When we released Timely a few years back we always described it as the time tracking app to end time tracking. The truth is that it wasn't quite there at the time.
But now, with AI coming as far it has, we can finally actually able to deliver on that promise.
It's been a long road here and I'm so happy to launch it. Please let us know what you think! :)
Hey Hacker News! Today we're launching our brand new version of Timely. It's a completely automatic time tracking platform so you'll never to think about what you worked on again or for how long. From who you email, to what places you’ve been to, how long you were on facebook or even where you drove your car.
Midnight, thank you so much for using it this long! That is seriously valued big time, and we appreciate it a lot! The visual stuff for planning is literally right around the corner. You'll have it this weekend or next week!
There were indeed some bugs that have since been squashed :)
Good blogpost, and it's a very, very valid point. I read the HIG up and down so many times and kept changing the UI.
The best way I ended up trying to get a "feel" of how this would work, was to add the designs to Flinto on an iPod touch, then covering up the rest of the screen except for the Apple Watch size. That way we could scroll around, etc. It worked for the feel of the size, but it's not a replacement for the real world use of it, of course.
There were definitively a few ah-ha moments when using it for the first time on an actual device, but I do feel we hit the experience pretty well. Apple has also featured the app as one of the best new apps for the Apple Watch, which is pretty awesome :) But yeah, completely understand your reasoning.
It's been both terrifying and a whole lot of fun to design for the Apple Watch. It's uncharted territory, which I cherish. But it's also weird to launch something and not being able to test if before everyone else does.
Anyhow, there will be a lot of useless apps made for this thing, but we feel that this product was made for Timely! It's such a natural extension for a time tracking and scheduling app.
Ah, it makes me truly happy to hear that! The frontpage video you're referencing took me an insane amount of time to finish. I hadn't done that kind of 3d stuff before, so I had to redo it a few times. Also, as I couldn't afford to get custom music made, I had to buy a song, which meant editing everything to match the story of the music, instead of the other way around. It's a very intersting creative way to make a video.
Anyhow, thanks again, really appreciate the comment. I'm available on [email protected] if you ever have questions.
It's a highly-requested feature, but we really want to focus on the scheduling and time tracking part of the task, and make that as best as it can possibly be. We're going to stay away from invoicing, but encourage anyone to integrate it via our API.
That's great! Unfortunately we aren't working on those two things just yet, but we are interested in looking at ways we might be able to add a small web version that would allow anyone outside of iOS to respond and join specific invites.
Glad to hear we're not the only ones seeing the problems with this.
For us, as a small, bootstrapped startup it's tough to do everything at the same time. It's also very important for us to get the experience right on one platform first, before we move on to different ones.
This is only our version one and we need to look at the feedback to see if we've made the right choices or need to change fundamental things.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts – much appreciated! We think there's something special about a place where the purpose is to actually play sports. There's something about cultivating that niche.
We are absolutely going to implement several of the features you mentioned, and hadn't though about some of them, so thanks again!