Time tracking sucks. I built TripleTime to make it feel like a spreadsheet

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We all know the pain, yet most of us are forced to deal with time tracking tools that are unintuitive, bulky or slow.
What if you could log hours with the same freedom as a spreadsheet, with the same speed as a notepad, without the sacrifice of automation, allowing you to sync your time logs to whatever software(s) you or your company uses.

The problem

I see this around me a lot, not just with developers, but in any profession; people don't like tracking their hours within whatever software their company uses. Myself included. When I asked around about this, the general feedback I got was "it's annoying".
Why? When I dug deeper, five core frustrations emerged:

The software is clunky, unintuitive or slow.
Not all work can be logged (like internal tasks) or has to be logged in different places.
Tasks don’t exist in the system yet, and creating them ruins your flow.
You're not linked to tasks and can't access them to log time. Now you have to wait for PMs or HR.
Time gets altered, either rounded automatically or changed manually by others. Which makes it impossible to see an overview of your actual worked time; you don't own your own time.

Current options

So, what do most people resort to? Scribbling down hours in a notepad (digital or physical), maybe log in a spreadsheet, sometimes even just guess hours when logging them later.
Why not use other time tracking tools or timers? Clockify, Everhour, Harvest, Jibble, TimeCamp, Timely, Toggl, My Hours, all of these could track time, couldn't they? Showing the websites for these products, most reactions fell into these categories: overwhelming, complex, unintuitive, too many forms, too slow, not enough freedom, pricy, etc. The people in non-technical roles in particular, felt it was a big hurdle to start using these platforms, especially the paid ones.

The solution

So, I sought out to build something simple, reliable and that felt like users had the freedom to log whatever they would like, as if they were using a spreadsheet, but a little more user friendly. Whilst making it as easy as possible to sync your logged hours to whatever software necessary, possibly multiple.

Simultaneous time tracking

During the development process, one of my personal issues as a software developer surrounded by AI and agentic work arose; I'm often working on multiple tasks simultaneously. Working with AI agents means I'm often juggling three tasks at once while code generates or tests run. So, I built TripleTime to allow for logging simultaneous work as well.
Now that work you're doing during a meeting has a place in your time log.

Low barrier

I wanted TripleTime to have a low barrier of entry, so I made it free. I've kept some advanced features as paid add-ons (I have to pay the bills somehow), but I'm still experimenting with what features should be paid add-ons.

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