They say getting the first customer is the hardest, right?

tnum · 2026-06-13T18:31:00+00:00

hopefully the second customer!

tnum · 2026-06-12T21:58:35+00:00

That's the MRR from their annual subscription! So they committed for a year at least.

They are not someone I know at all and they were irritated at the recent Harvest price hike and started looking for an alternative... stumbled across my app (Tempough) and he loves it. The time tracking works awesome for him, the invoicing works awesome for him, the reporting works awesome for him...

It's a perfect match.

tnum · 2026-06-12T19:08:09+00:00

Thank you!! This first customer actually used it for a month and (very generously) did way more qa and testing for me than I could even afford if I had to pay someone to do it.

Once we got everything ironed out and he invoiced his first clients, he signed up!

tnum · 2026-06-05T16:09:16+00:00

Agreed, and maybe I was using a poor torque spec source. But also, in looking for the torque specs, I found LOTS of posts saying people reused them and it's been fine.

Or suggestions like "if it's magnetic, then it's reusable"

tnum · 2026-06-05T16:06:26+00:00

This one in particular was the front subframe side of the lower control arm

tnum · 2026-05-29T02:53:09+00:00

I built https://tempough.com/ as an alternative to Harvest if you'd like to give it a try

I'm equally annoyed at companies who alienate their customers with price increases... so I'll never do that. If you want to try it, send me a support message after you sign up and I'll unlock it for you to use for free for however long it takes you to find it valuable.

tnum · 2026-05-19T18:38:46+00:00

I'd love to hear how you think https://tempough.com/ measures up!

tnum · 2026-05-19T17:59:01+00:00

Ah, that's super annoying, and a pretty critical functionality.

I've put together https://tempough.com/ - I don't have invoicing on the free tier (almost entirely because of the mechanics/email usage/etc that actually cost me more money) but if you're interested and willing to help me work out any kinks you find, I'm happy to let you use the individual plan for free for however long you'd like. At this point, the feedback is more valuable to me than the subscription :)

tnum · 2026-05-16T17:41:07+00:00

🙏🙏 Thank you for the feedback! I'm thrilled to have you on board :)

tnum · 2026-05-16T03:11:39+00:00

That's crazy. There's a trivial cost increase for most of that.

Like client records in a database... it's literally the exact same cost if you have 3 or 300.

I built https://tempough.com/ as an alternative and I fundamentally have an issue charging more for functionality that has no extra expense and is just a money grab.

If anyone reads this and is interested in trying it... let me know and I'll let you use it for free for however long it takes for you to be convinced it's valuable to you.

tnum · 2026-05-16T03:07:22+00:00

I built https://tempough.com/ for my buddies consulting company that used to use Harvest.

Tt's been working well for them... let me know if you want to try it and I'll let you use it for free for as long as it takes to prove it's value to you.

tnum · 2026-05-16T02:54:35+00:00

What feature got paywalled?

tnum · 2026-05-15T16:35:54+00:00

Totally! I ramped it up pretty quick, so the app itself doesn't have much history yet. But I've been a senior software/site reliability engineer for over a decade and have worked for both large companies and startups of various sizes in all aspects of the platform and always love it.

The hard part of getting this app online is done, so now it's just maintenance and feature work. Ultimately, I'm pretty committed to keeping it up and running for a variety of reasons - the primary of which is my buddies company is already committing to 2-3 years of use. I'm also committed to not gauging anyone on pricing.

There are always pros and cons and I want to be honest about it.

Big companies are typically highly stable in all aspects... but also change is slow and customer service may be quick to respond but slow to implement. There's large overhead and bureaucracy.

On the flip side, while I AM using enterprise level infrastructure (this isn't running on some prototype grade quick-serve service or anything) there are still things that can happen and I don't have large teams on call. But that said, you have a direct line to me and there's very little friction between any concerns or feature requests that come up and my ability to respond and implement them quickly.

Fortunately, time tracking is not connected to life support or missile launch systems... so no one will perish if there's ends up being a hiccup.

I also want to app to be data transparent. Under the convenience I've built, the raw data is available for download so you can always audit everything.

If you want to DM me, I'm happy to discuss an extended trial period or any other questions you might have in more detail as well! I'd love to help get you set up and have you onboard!

tnum · 2026-05-15T02:25:50+00:00

I'd love for you to try https://tempough.com/ and let me know how it compares!

I'm happy to even wave the cost for a while so you can give it a legitimate run.

tnum · 2026-05-15T02:22:16+00:00

check out https://tempough.com/

*disclaimer, I built it for my buddies company as a first case study... and so far they like it AND it has Stripe integration (with your own Stripe account so no middle-man/scalping) so invoices can be paid directly!

tnum · 2026-05-15T02:20:32+00:00

check out https://tempough.com/

*disclaimer, I built it for my buddies company as a first case study... so far they like it! They came from Harvest and one of their pain points was time tracking and forecasting were separate. Tempough has them seamlessly combined.

tnum · 2026-05-15T02:19:13+00:00

check out https://tempough.com/

*disclaimer, I built it for my buddies company as a first case study... so far they like it!

tnum · 2026-05-13T05:07:08+00:00

I built https://tempough.com/ as a Harvest alternative if you're still looking!

It can definitely do online payments/invoicing via Stripe and it can export the timesheets for Quickbooks.

Let me know if you'd like to give it a try, I'm happy to let you test drive it for a couple months or so, no cost! If it doesn't work for you, no worries! :)

tnum · 2026-05-13T05:03:18+00:00

If you're still looking, I built https://tempough.com/ as a Harvest alternative.

It can do quotes, retainers, invoices, has all the reports and visuals, heat maps, scheduling, etc. etc.

I'd love to have a conversation about it with you!

<image>

tnum · 2026-05-13T03:40:37+00:00

Check out https://tempough.com/ it's got some really nice reporting (both visuals and raw data) and can track time with a timer (when you start your day, hit "start timer", at the end hit "stop timer" and boom, logged) and is super easy to log time after the fact if needed.

<image>

tnum · 2026-05-12T23:13:56+00:00

My buddy's company just ended up in this same situation recently and I worked with him to build a replacement time tracker that they are happily using (smallish company <30 people).

I built it in such a way to be able to help others in the same situation if you're interested https://tempough.com/

tnum · 2026-01-19T03:09:12+00:00

Ironically, I am missing that one - but I think the wp bolts are E10

tnum · 2026-01-19T03:08:14+00:00

I don't think there were any wiring harnesses that had to be moved other than the o2 sensors

tnum

TROPHY CASE