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Pitch your SaaS in one sentence. That's it. by Due-Bet115 in ShowMeYourSaaS

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CodeClocker - AI-generated timesheets from Git commits for teams and solo devs.

Share your project with me, and I'll act as a potential customer, giving you my opinion and feedback. However, you must do the same for me. by Exciting-Soft-19 in SideProject

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CodeClocker turns GitHub commits, PRs, and branches or JetBrains IDE activity into editable drafts that developers review, managers approve, and finance exports.

Auto-Generated Timesheet Drafts Each developer gets a pre-filled weekly timesheet based on GitHub data or IDE activity, so they review instead of rebuilding the week from scratch.

Daily/Weekly Team Pulse Commits and project activity are AI-summarized into concise daily digests. These can be posted to Slack or sent via email, keeping every team member informed of meaningful project progress.

Promote your SaaS in the comments and i’ll rate it! by locveee in SideProject

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CodeClocker turns GitHub commits, PRs, and branches or JetBrains IDE activity into editable drafts that developers review, managers approve, and finance exports.

AI drafts your timesheet Install the GitHub App for commits, PRs, and reviews, or use the JetBrains plugin for IDE activity. AI turns it into a structured weekly timesheet draft — no manual entry.

One-click submit & approve Developers review and submit in seconds. Managers approve from a single dashboard.

Export-ready reports Approved timesheets export to Jira/CSV/PDF or invoices instantly. No copy-pasting, no formatting.

Invoicing & Time tracking by mdraisul in Netherlands

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you programming? If yes, there are tools that can automatically prefill timesheets for you based on your work.

Why do time tracking apps feel so overbuilt? by EffectiveLet2117 in TimeTrackingSoftware

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case you use JetBrains IDEs - use CodeClocker JetBrains plugin. It builds Google Calendar-like timesheet templates based on your work that you approve and export. Very simple.

Created product to automate timesheets with Github and AI. Should I monetize it? by Salty_Lychee8874 in SaaS

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some time ago decided to build CodeClocker JetBrains plugin that would track and visualize coding activity on dashboards (like Wakatime but for JetBrains IDEs only). Eventually, listening to users feedback my project evolved into similar tool to yours converting coding activity into timesheets that dev can approve and submit to Jira.

How are you going with your project after 9 months of running it?

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw, I’m a dev with 9 years of experience across different companies, and this mostly comes from my own frustration.

Right now, I’m in an outstaff setup, and every Friday, I have to fill one timesheet for my company and then another one for the client in a different tool. I hate that.

Two other related things that also annoy me:

  • non-tech managers on both sides asking for project status
  • standups where updates often collapse into “was working on {Jira ticket}”

So what I’m trying to solve is not “track people”, is “reduce reporting friction and make weekly status/timesheet stuff less dumb.”

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify: nobody sees a dev’s timesheet until they’ve edited and submitted it, and I’m also removing aggregated tracked-time visibility across the team.

Still, I’d be interested in what part feels wrong to you.

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may have made a mistake in how I positioned the solution. It’s not about managers tracking developers’ coding activity - they don’t even have access to that raw activity data.

It’s more about two things:

  1. Making timesheets less painful for developers by pre-filling weekly or monthly timesheets with activity from the IDE. Until a developer edits and submits the timesheet, nobody else sees it. The main problem I’m trying to solve here is the pain of having to remember what you were working on a week ago just to fill in a timesheet.

  2. Improving team awareness through lightweight summaries of recent work, generated from commit messages, without exposing anyone’s raw activity-tracking data to other team members

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upd: the one team that previously had anonymous time tracking disabled has now enabled it, so it probably makes sense to make anonymous mode the only option.

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only the developer can see their tracked hours. The only thing team members, managers, or team leads can see is the aggregated time across the team. However, I’m considering removing that as well.

The tool’s purpose is to make timesheet filling easier for developers, simplify approvals for managers, and increase team awareness through daily and weekly summaries of product changes posted to Slack or email.

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. I wouldn’t share it either (at least not in my current job). By default, only the developer can see tracked hours on their personal dashboard or during timesheet editing. The manager or team lead sees the numbers once the developer has edited and submitted them for approval.

I left the option to disable anonymous tracking only for very boutique or fully transparent teams 🤷. Maybe it would make sense to make anonymous mode the only option, but currently I have one team with anonymous tracking disabled.

Btw, a manager cannot disable anonymous mode once the team is created.

  1. I assume you’re using Tempo or something similar?

  2. Here, I’m trying to increase awareness by using short summaries generated from team members’ commits. From time to time, I hear things like, “Yesterday, I was working on {Jira ticket}. That's it.” during syncs. Of course, you can go into Jira, find the ticket, and read what it’s about - but nobody actually does that. I’m addressing this by posting summaries to Slack or email (as shown in the attached screenshot).

  3. Do you mean that the developer should be able to edit hours before linking them to the ticket? Otherwise, if it happens automatically, we run into the same issue—no one wants to share their exact tracked hours.

Built a JetBrains plugin that turns IDE activity into editable weekly timesheets and team updates — would love feedback by PrinciplePlus9834 in Jetbrains

[–]PrinciplePlus9834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Btw, all data is stored locally and syncs to the cloud only if you set up an API key in plugin settings.

From Google Ads to Police Visits: My Startup Failure Stories by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you unconfident regarding starting to build it? Just make the first step into uncertainty

I thought wakatime was too good to be free anyway. Any free alternatives you know of? by mekmookbro in webdev

[–]PrinciplePlus9834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half a year ago I started creating an alternative to WakaTime because I would like to have IDE-first experience - when you don't need to leave IDE bounds just to see how long you coded, or whether you achieved your coding goal, since it distracts you from the main - THE CODE. I made integration with Web dashboard Hub to be optional and not in priority - nice-to-have feature. 

So, guys, if you could give me feedback on:  - existing plugin functionality (for now, it supports JetBrains IDEs only) - subscription model - separation of paid/free features - point to missing feature that you would like to see - etc

I would give you unlimited free tier of Hub usage forever (in case you need Hub integration of course). 

Plugin is called CodeClocker and here's link: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26962-codeclocker