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Hey everyone, I am the person behind everyhour. I am here all day and on Twitter there after. I have recorded every hour of every day for three years - do you have any questions? ❓ Why I built everyhour: If someone asked you to do something, you would likely do it for them. Motivation isn’t even a thought. But when you give yourself a task, it’s much harder. There is no accountability to yourself. Suddenly, your targets fall, you neglect the things that make you happy and you burn out. As work-life blends more and more with home-life, we need some sort of accountability for ourselves and all our tasks, and this is why I really believe in tracking things (like Strava does for exercise, calorie trackers for diets, and so on). I had tried a variety of tools (automated or otherwise) and found a host of issues: 🤬 Too Complex: While mobile apps may be available, actual logging of time can be challenging (typically requiring multiple inputs of start times and end times and more — all of which are not relevant to my use-case). 😰Pressure: When using Toggl, I felt constantly under a timer even when I couldn’t see it. 🥸Too Specific: when it told me I had done 12 hours 42 minutes and 25 seconds of Exercise so far, I really don’t care. everyhour solves these. 📕 The story: I started time tracking with a spreadsheet as I didn’t understand how people flippantly said they worked 60 hour weeks. I then started tracking my time outside work and found it gave me real targets and motivation. Then I built everyhour to make the tracking easier. With it, I have : 🏃 completed an Ironman 70.3, 👾 learnt to code, 👋 quit two jobs, 🛖 become nomadic, But more importantly: 🏠 doubled the time I spend with my partner ↘️ reduced the hours doing work I hated by 70% 🔮 The future: everyhour is completely free right now, though I do have plans to monetise it in the future. I want to validate that this helps others too.

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4yr ago

Abishek Muthian

Bone Health Tracker

@acgoff Congratulations on the launch! everyhour could be addressing the need-gap 'Getting things done at individual level' posted on my problem validation platform - https://needgap.com/problems/30-... . You're welcomed to explain how you are solving that problem with everyhour, So those who need it can find it easily.

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4yr ago

Alex Goff

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Maker

@heavyinfo hey sorry I missed this. What is need gap exactly?

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4yr ago

Abishek Muthian

Bone Health Tracker

@acgoff Hey Alex, needgap is a problem validation platform and those who might need your product might visit the thread I mentioned above as your product seems to be addressing that problem.

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4yr ago

Alex Goff

Limpet - easy links and snippets

Maker

@heavyinfo Ahh interesting! Thanks for the recommendation

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4yr ago

Alex Goff

Limpet - easy links and snippets

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I have been asked via twitter DMs, how did I decide on the categories of time (every pot/category you create needs a type). The types I settled on are 🛏 Just Living, 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Social, 🏆 Hobbies, 🏢 Work, 🏃 Exercise, 📺 Leisure, 🧹 Admin and Chores, ❤️ Self Care. ...and it took me ages to decide on them! Do you think they make sense as the most abstract categorisations of what we do?

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4yr ago

Robin

@acgoff I think for most they are great

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4yr ago

Alex Goff

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@robinkunz Thanks Robin. Its always good to get things validated by others!

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4yr ago

Dagobert Renouf

This looks exactly like what I need, great work. I'm impressed that you've tracked every hour of your last three years 🤯

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4yr ago

Alex Goff

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@dagorenouf Thanks! Honestly it is momentum and also part of my reward now. In the same way Strava is a reward for doing exercise, recording time into my exercise pots, or project pots or family and friends pots is a reward - and I have targets on all of them. Plus the app is on my phones home page!

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4yr ago

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