Freelancer Hours Tracking Tool - Tahometer.com
Dear colleagues, I represent the startup Tahometer ( www.tahometer.com ) to your court.
The task of the Tachometer is to report to the customer about the time spent by the freelancer, to calculate the cost of the work done in accordance with the specified hourly rates.
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Hourly pay for work is one of the most attractive forms for a professional freelancer. It allows you to do your work and at the same time simplifies accounting. Unfortunately, “hourly” is very difficult to control, and working hours is easy to simulate. Often, this is why it is difficult to convince the customer to switch to the hourly form of payment. It is here that the “necessary evil” appears - the counter of the hours worked, the system located in neutral territory.
For the first time I saw a similar working freelance on odesk'e. On the moral and ethical aspects of such systems is also said not a little . But the fact that the statistics collected with the help of them allows you to quickly build trust between customers and performers, of course. In general, the idea was born to make a publicly available accounting service "pochasovki". What came out of it to judge you.
And it works quite simply. You download a small tracker program from the Tachometer website and run it on your computer. The program can work without registration. Every 10 minutes, the tracker sends statistics on your work to the server (screenshots of the screen, mouse and keyboard activity, your comments) and allows you to access this information on your personal page. After reviewing the saved information, you can selectively publish it.
- The project can be used regardless of the freelance site;
- Statistics are kept on the total time and time of activity (earned vs effective);
- It is possible to work without access to the Internet and fill in statistical data whenever possible;
- It is possible to add offline time (meetings outside the computer, etc.);
- The amounts of payments for the hours worked are displayed based on the rates entered;
The name of the project is not accidental. The name Tachometer (tahometer) is formed by merging task and hour. It looks like a taximeter (taxi meter). The hourly job itself is similar to the work of a taxi driver: you have a task (end point) and time worked (route) for which you are billed. Sorry for the analogy :-)
Now the project is in its infancy, we plan to launch a number of interesting innovations at its base. The tracker works under Windows, Linux and Mac. Thanks in advance for any comments and error messages in the service.
The task of the Tachometer is to report to the customer about the time spent by the freelancer, to calculate the cost of the work done in accordance with the specified hourly rates.
')
Hourly pay for work is one of the most attractive forms for a professional freelancer. It allows you to do your work and at the same time simplifies accounting. Unfortunately, “hourly” is very difficult to control, and working hours is easy to simulate. Often, this is why it is difficult to convince the customer to switch to the hourly form of payment. It is here that the “necessary evil” appears - the counter of the hours worked, the system located in neutral territory.
For the first time I saw a similar working freelance on odesk'e. On the moral and ethical aspects of such systems is also said not a little . But the fact that the statistics collected with the help of them allows you to quickly build trust between customers and performers, of course. In general, the idea was born to make a publicly available accounting service "pochasovki". What came out of it to judge you.
How does the Tahometer work?
And it works quite simply. You download a small tracker program from the Tachometer website and run it on your computer. The program can work without registration. Every 10 minutes, the tracker sends statistics on your work to the server (screenshots of the screen, mouse and keyboard activity, your comments) and allows you to access this information on your personal page. After reviewing the saved information, you can selectively publish it.
What's new:
- The project can be used regardless of the freelance site;
- Statistics are kept on the total time and time of activity (earned vs effective);
- It is possible to work without access to the Internet and fill in statistical data whenever possible;
- It is possible to add offline time (meetings outside the computer, etc.);
- The amounts of payments for the hours worked are displayed based on the rates entered;
The name of the project is not accidental. The name Tachometer (tahometer) is formed by merging task and hour. It looks like a taximeter (taxi meter). The hourly job itself is similar to the work of a taxi driver: you have a task (end point) and time worked (route) for which you are billed. Sorry for the analogy :-)
Now the project is in its infancy, we plan to launch a number of interesting innovations at its base. The tracker works under Windows, Linux and Mac. Thanks in advance for any comments and error messages in the service.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/84579/
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