Everyone should be doing something they love.
In everything we do, we follow The Golden Rule:
"treat others as one would like others to treat oneself"
We believe everything we do should Save. You. Time which you can then spend doing the things you love (you know, the ones you never have time for...).
Poor planning and lack of modularity are the mothers of bloated apps. If how you go about doing something in the app isn’t obvious, then it needs to be changed.
We have a lot of ideas for great ways the app can help you track your time, become more productive and more organised (based on the latest science), but we don’t want to give you something you don’t want so we’ll be asking you for your thoughts before we start working on new features. Everything we put out into the world will be voted on by you, the people who use our app. And we hope that once you start using it, you’ll have some great ideas of things you’d like to see built into the app and we can vote on those as a community too.
Which means we don’t sell it. We don’t use it to study you without your knowledge or consent. We don’t give it to your boss. It’s your information and you are in control of who sees any given portion of it and how it’s used (simply and easily, not hidden behind a mass of complicated menus).
No company should be anything short of carbon neutral. The fact that we exist will be positive for the environment, not a detriment.
Whilst we don’t know exactly what this is going to look like yet, we’re counting on our community of users to let us know exactly what they need from day 1.
We’re aware this may seem crazy, but we want to be fully transparent about everything we do, from making decisions to finances 😮 We’re an open book 📖
We don’t hide our code away. If you want to contribute to it, please do. If you want to use it as the starting point for something else, that’s fine too - just please give us some kudos for the hard work we’ve put in 😌
We’ll draw on the most interesting, important and relevant scientific research to help you improve your productivity.
We want to grow organically, at the right pace for us and to be flexible enough to move in the direction the community wants to take us.
The most easy-to-use API means you can quickly integrate the time app features into your own websites, apps and internal flows. If it makes you more productive, we’re happy for you to use it
We do not have users, we have people.
If we're giving out puppies, we're giving them to the people who've been with us from the start. We're not giving them out to new people and charging existing people for the privilege.
I hate it when I love the way an app is now and then it forces me to update to a new version where they have ruined the experience by trying to get the app to do too much and bloated the UI. Don't you? Our plan is to keep things modular enough that if you ❤️ the way the app looks now, you can keep it just the way you want it but still access new features.
@nelsonic wrote an excellent summary of why we have no plans to sell the organisation to anyone and why that is important to us: dwyl/hq#189 .