Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
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Friendships, Freckle & The Importance of Breaks: A chat with Rachael E. C. Acklin
We were nothing short of delighted when Rachael E.C. Acklin–you may know her as the [Caffeinated Elf](http://caffeinatedelf.com “Rachael’s website, CaffeinatedElf.com”)–expressed an interest in talking with us as part of our Freckle Focus Interview Series. Our intrepid Freckle reporter [Marissa](http://marissabracke.com [...]
Amy Hoy
European Networks: Cogent Disrupting Freckle
Argh! **You may have had some trouble accessing Freckle from Europe the past 24 hours.** We’re very sorry! It looks like a major backbone internet provider, Cogent, is experiencing major outage issues. Freckle the application is up and running just fine; our hosting company is running just fine; but the connections between you, and the [...]
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She’s Got the Beat: Musician Christine Bougie Tracks Her Time
Our inaugural Freckle Focus Interviewee is a lap steel player / guitarist / drummer / lover of the Freckle Pulse page, [Christine Bougie](http://www.christinebougie.com “Christine’s website”). Christine was kind enough to take a break from recording her third album to have a chat with our intrepid Freckle reporter, [Marissa](http://marissabracke.com [...]
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Say hello to INVOICING!
We’re absolutely tickled to announce that Freckle now offers you **invoicing**. Oooh. What can I do with it? You can now create invoices for any project. You can specify a flat rate total (per invoice) or a single hourly rate (per invoice). You can add any tax percentage you need, and specify any currency. You can opt to show no hours, [...]
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Woohoo, press coverage!
From the “other people are tooting our horn so now we will re-toot it ourselves, just in case you missed it the first time around” files: Lifehacker! Lifehacker named us one of their Top 10 Underhyped Web Apps. To wit: … Freckle doesn’t require you to learn a new set of rules or input methods to track how you spend [...]
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Ringing in the New Year as small biz honchos, indies, & moonlighters
Yay, it’s that time of year again! That time of year when the year’s almost run out, the time of year to look back on the past 12 months and beat ourselves up for not following through with the starry-eyed resolutions we made to lose weight, earn more money, and be less of a slacker, this time *last* year! Orrrrrr…. not! [...]
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What to expect when you’re expecting… to launch your product
It’s two weeks since we launched [freckle](http://letsfreckle.com/) to the public. I know, now, what it feels like to have a small child. Perhaps I am a wee bit melodramatic (some might say “whiny”). Actual parents of small children: please do not assault me or storm my castle with pitchforks. But drama queenliness or not, [...]
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Stats week 1: What a lovely long tail you have!
Before we launched, I made a prediction to the rest of the teamThomas, Dieter and Joethat the majority of our traffic, and thus our market, would be American. Well, I can admit when I’m wrong. Hooray for numbers! I like facts! ## Visitor Locations It’s true that American traffic has been the single largest unified segment [...]
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On 600 signups
Today we’re on track to whiz by the 600 accounts mark. This is by far faster than we were expecting, with the low-key launch that we’d planned. Imagine: at least 600 people have come to our site, skimmed our copy, clicked the big old pink trial button, chosen a plan, and filled out the forms. That’s a lot of accumulated time [...]
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Ecommerce Stuff Nobody Tells You
Well, we’ve solved our latest credit card validation problem and it seems like a good time to give a quick recap of the lessons we’ve learned during this whole sordid process. Things that nobody bothers to tell you, not even the people you’re paying to do just that. This is 2008, but credit card processing is a technological [...]
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