melancer.com

About

Me as a freelancer, i like to do my work, but as i am alone, i am botherd to do all the enoying rest as well, like accounting and hour keeping. To help myself i wrote this web app to keep track of my hours for my different projects. Friends started using my app and they liked it ang give me always new suggestion what funktion to add, and what bugs to fix, it started to grow.

Workflow

The app is adjusted to my normal workflow, but can of course used in different ways.
For me its important that i can show my clients on what and how long i have been working last days, and i need to create a summary for billing at the end of the month. But i also use this app to keep an overviw on my hours.

Working day

Get out of bed
Read my Tickets/Tasks
Log in this app and keep it in the background (firefox tab)
Start working on an issue
Finish the work and add it to the app
Continue working on the next issue
Task done, booked into the system
Workday done, time for a beer...

End of the month

Login to the system
Create a bill for the open hours
Print it out and add to my bill
Looking at the stats and notice that i was to many days lazy and reorganize my working times

Features

Free
Direct access to your date, for export in cvs, excel
Stats
You can give logins to your clients and they can see your progress (fine greined permission system)