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by kleinsch 4899 days ago
I'm a freelancer and I didn't get a good sense of why I would use your product. Why is analyzing how I spend my time and looking at graphs going to make me more effective? Isn't the goal to spend more time working on projects and less time managing my tools?

I think for many freelancers the question is going to be: why would I stop using Harvest to use your tool? For me, I didn't see the reason.

Not saying you don't have a good product here - just think the marketing message could be clearer.

2 comments

Thanks for the feedback. We definitely need to work on a clearer marketing message that focuses on the benefits. We use the data from the time logged to assess how accurate our estimates were against actual time to deliver a project so that we improve future quotes for projects. We realised that in addition to quoting time spent developing the ability to review time spent on planning, in meetings and fixing bugs is invaluable information.
I second that, except that I use Toggl, which has a great free layer.
Toggl is a great tool