When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams. “Well, so much for my morning,” said one. “Google’s Pac Man logo just ruined millions of dollars in productivity today, nationwide,” said another. Here’s what we all saw on Friday: Here are two of the tweets we saw in […]
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours Read More »
[note: some data in this post is missing– given that we work on and troubleshoot our own software, sometimes we don’t get to log ALL of our time in a week, but it’s consistent enough that I don’t think it skews these results in a big way. We also had a vacation in each of
Does working from home make you more productive? Yes (with data)! Read More »
On Monday, the entire RescueTeam dragged their collective backsides into the office a little bit late. Weekends are sometimes challenging to recover from in terms of work schedule– but Daylight Savings Time Monday is especially painful. Towards the end of the day we all collectively felt the day was short– and, of course, it was.
Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000 Read More »
Sorry for the relative silence on this blog– we’ve been hard at work doing the following: scaling RescueTime to handle the steady influx of users fundraising (we’ve got some exciting news on this front coming soon) hiring (if you happen to know a Rails, Python, or C++ developer who wants to jump in with us,
RescueTime Gets a Shiny New Logo Read More »
I am a big fan of letting users drive the features of a product. In fact, we’re about to release a ranking survey based on the feature suggestions in the thousands of emails we’ve received over the past few months. But one often-requested feature that will likely not be included in RescueTime is pie charts.
“No Pie Charts… Not Ever!” (says I) Read More »
Not a lot of people know this, but RescueTime was built on a part-time basis. We’d steal time in evenings, on weekends, and sometime on vacation to build what we’ve created to date. Add this to assorted travels around the holidays and we’ve been positively slammed. With the volume of new users we’ve gotten, it’s
RescueTime Hits Silicon Valley Read More »
Just read a great blog post at BusinessPundit.com called “Why I Gave Up Desserts to Become a Better Entrepreneur”. Here’s a great excerpt: For instance, I sit down to write a software spec. It should take me an hour. But first I check my email. Someone sent me an interesting link, so I visit the
Giving up Desserts to Be Professionally Successful Read More »
Heads up: Before you dive in, just a friendly reminder that this is an almost 10-year old blog post on launching products. We’ve kept it up as, while some of the examples might feel dated, we still think the approach is a good one. Enjoy! I tend to be skeptical of my own ideas (this
How to have 4,000 Users Waiting When You Launch Read More »
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