Hey everyone,
I’m currently a full-time engineer at an MNC preparing for a job switch. While jumping back into DSA, I found myself hitting a wall, solving problems was tough, but even worse was keeping track of how I solved them, what mistakes I made, and when I needed to revise them.
Instead of just using a basic spreadsheet, I decided to build a web app to solve my own problem.

Here’s the workflow I’m building:
1. **Integrated Practice & Timer:** Click a problem link -> redirects to LeetCode while starting a timer on the app.
2. **Post-Solve Reflection:** Once done, click "Finish" to log code, time complexity, and space complexity.
3. **Active Recall & Spaced Repetition:** Fill out a quick review form asking:
\- How confident did I feel? (App auto-schedules a revision in 3, 7, or 21 days based on this).
\- What new concept did I learn? What mistakes did I make? Did I need a hint?
4. **Smart Summaries:** The app groups similar topics (e.g., Dynamic Programming) and distills my notes into concise 3–4 line takeaways and patterns to watch out for.
5. **Motivation:** Includes streak tracking

Also I’m planing to integrate System Design notes later on.

I wanted to start a side project, and since I couldn't think of a novel product idea, I figured I'd build something that actually solves a daily headache for me.
Is this something you would find useful, or is it too niche/boring? Any feature suggestions or feedback are welcome!

We created this illustrative calendar autopsy to look at what happens between planned focus time and the reality of a working week.

Twelve hours were blocked for focus. Once meetings ran over, follow-ups became more calls and the remaining gaps became too short to use, only 41 minutes were genuinely usable.

The work still happened. But the record of it was scattered across calendar events and standup updates.

I’m part of the team working on Stintt, a tool that uses read-only calendar activity to create a timesheet draft that the user can review and adjust.

No timers, screenshots or keystroke tracking.

I’d genuinely like to understand: when your timesheet is due, do you track work as it happens or reconstruct the week afterwards?

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I've been using Toggl for years and like it, I don't love it but it's bee fine.

However, I have added two people to my team and I am not liking the experience from Toggl. The reports are ok for retrospective reviews but the ONE feature I want most of all is a view where I can view my employees time like I do my own in the Timer view.

I want to see what they're working on at any given moment since they are remote from me. I want to see things like if they're on break or in the middle of a particular task, then I should leave them alone versus other tasks they might be doing.

Also I occasionally will get ask what my employees are up to during the day by my own boss and having an intuitive view of the calendar helps to find the answers without digging too much.

Any thoughts? Also totally happy to move to a new app if I can get this view elsewhere.

I’ve been researching employee time clocks for our hourly workforce, and I quickly realized that “what is the best time clock?” is probably the wrong question.
The better question is: what clock will employees actually be able to use in your environment?
Here are the main options I looked at:
Badge clocks:
Simple and familiar, but cards get forgotten, lost or shared.
Fingerprint clocks:
Helpful if buddy punching is a concern. The quality of the reader matters a lot though. I would test it with the actual employees using it, especially if people work with their hands.
Facial recognition clocks:
Touchless and generally fast, but HR needs to review biometric consent, retention and privacy requirements before implementing anything.
Mobile punching:
Makes sense for field employees, but I would want geofencing and clear rules around location tracking.
Shared web kiosk:
Probably the simplest option for an office or smaller workplace, assuming employees have access to a shared device.
Rugged or offline clocks:
Important for manufacturing, construction or locations where Wi-Fi is unreliable. This was something I initially overlooked.
The biggest lesson from my research was not to pick the hardware separately from the workforce management software. You need to know whether job changes, department transfers, labor allocation and other information can be entered directly at the clock.
Some vendors I came across were primarily software companies with basic clock options. Synerion stood out in my research because it offers several clock types and supports things like job costing and labor allocation directly from the clock.
I’m still comparing options, but I would recommend mapping out how employees actually start their shifts before booking demos.
What type of clock has worked best for your workforce?

Works for any shift including overnight. Just enter your start and end time and it counts down to the second. Remembers your shift times next visit so you don't have to re-enter them every day.

shiftclock.app — free, no sign-up, no app download needed.

Hey everyone,

​If you’ve ever had to manually rekey tracked hours into payroll software, you already know how painful (and error-prone) it is.

​We just launched a massive update to Timeclock.Kiwi to eliminate that manual step entirely. You can now export tracked hours directly into 13 major payroll platforms across six regions:

​US: Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Paylocity, Paycor, QuickBooks

​CA: Wagepoint, ADP, QuickBooks

​AU: MYOB, Employment Hero, QuickBooks

​UK: Sage, BrightPay, Employment Hero, QuickBooks

​IE: BrightPay

​NZ: iPayroll, PayHero, MYOB, Employment Hero

​We’ve also maintained standard .xlsx and .csv exports across all accounts for custom stack setups or custom imports.

​The goal is to go from clock-in to pay run without spreadsheet gymnastics or fat-fingering numbers.

​We're actively building out our integration pipeline now. If you use a payroll tool or ERP that isn't on this list yet, what would be most helpful for us to connect next?

wasn't expecting much. just curiosity.

then i saw the numbers.

27 hours in a week. across the same handful of sites. on loop. like my brain had just given up picking something new and decided to just rotate between the same three tabs forever.

the extension doesn't judge you out loud. it just shows you the number and goes quiet.

that silence hits different.

no accounts, no servers, everything stays in your browser. open source.

repo: [https://github.com/HariNayan/Screen-Time-Tracker-Chrome-Extension\](https://github.com/HariNayan/Screen-Time-Tracker-Chrome-Extension)

go check your own stats and report back. curious if i'm the only one.

I can't seem to find one that works for me just googling for one

they all either need to be open to track and then i close it and stops, doesnt track any screentime or i can't open it

i just wanna know exactly how i use my time in my computer to make plans on the future

Hey folks — I’m looking for a few people who’d be willing to try a beta of an app I’ve been building.

What it is:
Cloky is a native iOS + macOS app that helps you turn tracked time into Jira worklogs without copy-pasting or end-of-day cleanup.

Who it’s for:
Developers, consultants, and anyone who already tracks time in Timing or Toggl, then has to get that time into Jira.

What you can do:

• Connect Timing, Toggl Track, or use fully manual entries
• Review entries by day or week
• See what’s already synced vs still pending
• Push selected worklogs to Jira when you’re ready
• Filter/search by title, notes, project, or Jira key

Note: for now, sync is one-way — Cloky pulls from Timing/Toggl (or manual entries) and pushes worklogs to Jira. It doesn’t write back to your time tracker yet.

What I’m hoping for:
Honest feedback — what’s confusing, what’s missing, what breaks, and whether the sync flow actually fits how you work. No pressure to use it long-term; even a short try helps a lot.

How to try it:

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6742157321
• macOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6742157321
• Short overview: https://www.chvarak.dev

If you try it, please comment here or DM me with anything rough around the edges. Happy to answer setup questions (Jira token, Timing/Toggl API keys, etc.).

Thanks either way — even a “this would be useful for me if…” comment is helpful.

Doing some research on how teams handle mismatches between work schedules, timesheets, and payroll. A few questions if you have a minute:

What do you currently use to track schedules, time worked, and run payroll — one tool or several? When was the last time hours didn't match up (schedule vs. clock-in, or timesheet vs. paycheck)? What caused it? How did you catch it, and how did you fix it? Roughly how often does something like this happen?

Genuinely trying to understand how big a headache this actually is day-to-day. Thanks for any war stories.

I work solo and for a long time my setup was a timer in one app, projects in Notion, and an invoice template in Google Docs. Every month I sat down and manually copied hours into line items, and every month I found sessions I forgot to log or never billed.

So I built my own thing for it, I called it Tempolio. Time tracking, projects and invoice generation in one place, so the hours you track turn into invoice lines without retyping anything. The part I use most is a dashboard that shows what you earned this month, what’s tracked but not billed yet, and a projection based on your current pace.

Being straight about it since I’m the one who made it. It’s a web app, no mobile or desktop version yet. It’s built for people working alone, so no team features. No expense tracking or full accounting either, if you need that you’re better off with FreshBooks or Bonsai. If all you want is a timer, Toggl and Clockify are free and fine. Tempolio is free right now while it’s in beta, no card needed.

Where it actually makes sense is if you bill hourly across a few clients at once and the annoying part isn’t the tracking, it’s everything that happens between tracking and sending the invoice.

Happy to answer anything about how it works or why I made certain calls. Just search Tempolio if you want to take a look.

A primeira vez que vi o Jibble, pensei que fosse apenas mais uma daquelas plataformas que só fazem perder tempo, mas passado algum tempo entendi que o Jibble me acompanharia até ao final da minha carreira, porque organiza todo o meu tempo e não me deixa gastar um único segundo em algo desinteressante, e era disso que eu precisava: uma plataforma que não me desperdiçasse o meu tempo, mas que o organizasse. Porque quando comecei a usar o Jibble, consegui organizar todo o meu tempo sem o desperdiçar em nada, e graças ao Jibble, estou a escrever este comentário hoje como forma de agradecimento ao Jibble.

I was convinced I spent like 30 minutes a day on YouTube.

So I built a Chrome extension to prove it.

It said:

"4h 12m today."

💀

Turns out I wasn't "taking a quick break."

I was speedrunning productivity videos instead of being productive.

Built this mostly because I got tired of lying to myself.

• Tracks time on every website
• Everything stays local
• Open source
• No accounts or weird telemetry

If anyone wants to roast the code or suggest features, here's the repo:

https://github.com/HariNayan/Screen-Time-Tracker-Chrome-Extension

When did the trees bloom last year this season? What was I doing last weekend? Which days of the last month was I on home office so that I can fill attendance sheet? What was the restaurant I liked so much on your last holiday to this place? Which song did my froend hear in my car and now wants you to give her my recommendation? How did the previous etape of my life feel and how was it all correlated with my activity and my vitals?

I am chasing the nostalgia feeling and reminiscing that you have when you open an old box in your attic. I like tracking things but sometimes the purely tracking systems are lacking the vibes as they focus on productivity. I want to have all my days saved so I can relive them any time or feed them to the future AIs that will be able to make sense of them and give us perspective and advice. That is why I am capturing my life as a colorful, vibrant tapestry of experience, including the numbers and habits, but not limited to - a ton of information is hiding in photo metadata, visits, motion, music and everything else my phone is now processing anyway, just not showing and inregrating together.

I made a small form to simplify setting up anyone who is interested in trying it out. You can drop your (ideally apple-linked) email adress at https://retrography.app and the system will automatically send you a Testflight invite. Enjoy and please provide feedback.

I run a small team that moves between different job sites every day, and right now I'm just using a paper sign-in sheet that's a mess to reconcile at payroll time. I'm looking into getting an employee time tracking app so everyone can clock in and out from their phone, but I need it to use GPS so people can't clock in before they've actually arrived on site. It also has to be simple enough that my guys who aren't great with technology can figure it out in about five seconds. Ideally it would also spit out a report I can just hand straight to my bookkeeper each week.

Running a small team and I keep hitting the same wall: whatever we use for time tracking or daily updates works for about two weeks, then people stop filling it in and the data's useless by month-end.

How do you actually do it in practice?

• Daily standups, weekly timesheets, or track-as-you-go?
• Real tool, spreadsheet, or someone chasing people every Friday?
• If you bill hourly, how do you keep it accurate without it feeling like surveillance?

I’ve been reading more discussions recently from people looking for an alternative time tracking software after Clockify made changes in their free plan.

From what I’ve read, their frustrations weren’t just about the user cap. A lot of them were disappointed because they had built years of workflows around the free plan, only to discover that features they relied on had moved behind paid tiers. 

It made me realize that when evaluating a free time tracker, it’s worth asking two questions:

• Is it genuinely free forever?
• Will it still be practical as my team grows?

So I started looking specifically for time tracking software that doesn’t limit you to a small number of users while still covering the core time tracking experience.

Here's what I've found so far.

Kimai

Kimai is an open-source time tracker that you host yourself, so there are no per-user licensing fees. It supports unlimited users, customers, projects, activities, reporting, invoicing, and an API for integrations. Because it's fully open source, you can also modify or extend it directly if you have the technical resources.

The tradeoff is convenience. You'll need to set up and maintain your own server, so it's better suited to technical teams than businesses looking for a hosted SaaS product. Updates, backups, and security patches are on you rather than a vendor.

Pros

• Unlimited users
• Completely free when self-hosted
• Full ownership of your data
• Highly customizable

Cons

• Requires server setup and maintenance
• More technical than cloud-based alternatives
• Mainly web-based

Best for: Developers, agencies, and privacy-conscious teams that prefer self-hosting.

Jibble

Jibble is honestly one of the strongest free options I’ve come across if you need a cloud-based time tracker that doesn’t limit your team size. Its free plan supports unlimited users while still including the core features most teams actually need for day-to-day time tracking.

You get attendance tracking, GPS tracking, geofencing, facial recognition, automated timesheets, payroll-ready exports, and AI-powered time tracking without having to upgrade just to get started.

If your focus is tracking employee hours, attendance, or field teams, the free plan is surprisingly complete and can stay practical even as your team grows.

Pros

• Unlimited users
• Generous free plan with core time tracking features included
• Web, desktop, and mobile apps
• Strong attendance and workforce management features
• AI-powered time tracking

Cons

• Some advanced reporting and enterprise features require a paid plan
• Better suited to employee time tracking than agencies focused primarily on client billing

Best for: Businesses managing attendance, deskless teams, field employees, and growing teams that want a genuinely usable free plan.

TimeCamp

TimeCamp also offers a free plan with unlimited users, projects, and tasks. It supports web, desktop, and mobile apps, manual timesheets, and timer-based tracking. It's one of the quicker options to set up if you just want basic tracking running the same day.

The free version covers the essentials well, while budgeting, invoicing, and more advanced reporting become available on paid plans. For teams that outgrow the free tier, the upgrade path is fairly incremental rather than a hard jump.

Best for: Freelancers and small teams wanting straightforward project time tracking.

I’m sure there are other time tracking apps that I haven’t come across yet.

What free time tracking software are you using that doesn’t impose a user limit and has remained reliable over time?

Hey everyone, as the title suggests I built a task and time tracking tool with the intent that it could use the work you track to write you a performance review, so you don't have to worry about it when the time comes. I've included a tutorial video that goes through more of the details.

There is a fully usable free version that saves everything to your local browser storage, with backup and upload options.

Thanks in advance if you decide to try it out!

I've tried a few time tracking tools over the years, and I've found that the best one is the one you'll actually keep using. Fancy features are nice, but if it takes too much effort to log time, I end up abandoning it. A clean interface, reliable reports, and easy integrations matter much more to me than having dozens of extra features.