Monday, December 27, 2010

Simple web based time and vacation tracking with MrTickTock

Prologue

We finally did it. After three months of coding we are proud to announce that MrTickTock 1.0-Beta has been released (one week ago) and is ready to track your time at mrticktock.com. Although it is in beta condition we consider it a stable and production ready system and we use it to track our internal time. Therefore you may ask why we released it as a beta version. There are two reasons:
* we still want to improve set of stuff and make MrTickTock even more user friendly and awesome,
* we would love people use it, test it and share their ideas on what we should change before 1.0-Final release.

Why MrTickTock?

We observed lack of simple, decent and affordable employee time tracking solutions. Most of them require user to download piece of software and install it locally which is not the way small and agile company wants to go (not to mention startups). The existing online solutions are either expensive or have really poor UX and all of them lack of the key feature: vacation tracking :)

What is MrTickTock?

MrTickTock is designed to be simple, fast and secure online solution to track employee time in an efficient way. It is completely free. You don't have to download, install or configure anything. Just sing up in less then 20 seconds and start tracking your time.
We may introduce affordable paid plans for bigger groups and companies some day in the future but don't worry. It will be still free for small companies, individuals and freelancers. Paid accounts will also stay free for already signed users for at least one year.

Evolution?

We know that there are number of people and companies still using Excel as a substitute for dedicated time tracking software. We even know big companies (thousands of employees) using Excel to track vacation time. Isn't it ridiculous? This is why we work so hard to improve MrTickTock UX and add extra features to make their life easier. Here is what we want to release soon:
* save/report time with ajax (no more save button and lost entries),
* new look & feel for customer/project/task structure,
* mobile view,
* vacation tracking,
* billing/invoice,
* IM time tracking,
* improved reports,
* remote SCRUM stand-ups.

Epilogue

If you read this blog post it probably means that you are looking for a decent web based time tracker. Therefore you should give MrTickTock a try at mrticktock.com. The next release in January will bring new prime quality - you will love it.

Stay in touch with MrTickTock and follow us on Twitter: Follow mrticktock_com on Twitter
We will post there news of improvements, new features and releases.

Best,
MrTickTock team

8 comments:

  1. I was quite confused when I logged in first time. Interface is diffrent from solution I know and use in work.
    BTW. You have some problems with top menu in Chrome browser under OS X. Menu is squeezed and take two lines.

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  2. Thanks for info Seban. We know about the Chrome problem and it is already fixed (it will be released together with 1.0 Final at the end of January).

    Which part is confusing? Time enter table or customer/project/task page? We are going to totally refactor customer/project/task view and make it much more obvious for users.

    Cheers,
    Jacek

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  3. MrTickTock 1.0 has been released. The interface is very natural and easy to use right now.

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  4. There are lot of time tracker but some are paid time tracker tools. There is a free time tracker known as Time doctor. It was effective but I don't use it because I hate time tracker.

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  5. Hello Joomla,

    I took a look at Time doctor and to be honest it seems too complicated from my perspective.
    We want to keep MrTickTock extremely simple and form it into and agile product which allows not only track time but also conduct remote SCRUM stand-ups and support other agile practices.

    Is there any particular reason why you 'hate' time trackers? Maybe you just have not found anything suitable for your needs.

    Cheers,
    Jacek

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  6. MrTickTock 1.1 has been released. Vacation tracking, reminder emails, time zone support, avatars and few other improvements and bug fixes are included.

    http://mrticktock.com

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  7. This great time tracking tools, simple, fast and secure online solution to track employees time.

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  8. Search employee time tracking label for newest posts about MrTickTock.

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