Comments on: Show Your Boss What You’ve Done All Day with ididwork

By: what are your employees doing? — Business Ready

what are your employees doing? — Business Ready — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:33:45 +0000

[...] reviewed by TechCrunch on August 6, ididwork is a web-based service to let employees keep record of work they have completed. [...]

By: Vasudev Ram

Vasudev Ram — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:46:29 +0000

A correction about my previous comment above (of 6 August 2008), where I said they should have an export to CSV option – they do have one. I thought otherwise, because the option was titled “Export to Excel”, not “Export to CSV”, and though I did try the Generate PDF option, I didn’t try the Excel one. After I filed a suggestion with them, they let me know that it was actually a CSV export option. (Also tried it out then and it worked fine.) Just want to make it clear …

Also, they said that they had intentionally released early with few features, and that they have a strong committment to releasing early and often.

Here’s wishing ididwork success …

- Vasudev

By: Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:36 +0000

[...] wish to remain in stealth mode any longer. See our prior coverage of Posterous, Anyvite, ididwork, Popcuts, and Slinkset – all of which are part of this batch and have launched [...]

By: Reporting en el trabajo « IT Weblog de Marcos Obed

Reporting en el trabajo « IT Weblog de Marcos Obed — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:30:08 +0000

[...] 2008 ¿Cuantas veces no olvidamos en que estamos o el estado de avance de nuestro trabajo? Vía TechCrunch llegue a esta herramienta que te permite llevar una bitácora de tu trabajo, agregando tags para [...]

By: David Binkowski

David Binkowski — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:09:20 +0000

Their business model (free now, charge later) is borked. As a stand alone it will fail due to all of the comments above. I’d package it and offer it to IT managers as an intranet install (with support extra $$) that integrates with an existing time tracking tool.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:39:01 +0000

There is nothing easier to bullshit than a progress report.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:16:17 +0000

When a work team is ready to move beyond these 'simple' web-based apps we keep seeing on TC, check out Intervals - time tracking combined with task management and reporting. Time tracking can be a lot more powerful when integrated with the rest of your workflow.

By: Nick Sergeant

Nick Sergeant — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:20:18 +0000

In case anyone’s interested, Finisht.com – http://finisht.com – just went open source, so you’re welcome to freely modify and / or download the source code to install on your own private intranets. This should take care of the privacy issue.

You can grab the source code here:

http://code.goo....com/p/finisht/

Lots of features to come, too!

By: Valor del ángel « Blog de JoseMPelaez

Valor del ángel « Blog de JoseMPelaez — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:28:14 +0000

[...] si leemos hasta el final lo que ha escrito Mike Arrington sobre la nueva startup ididwork, veremos que los fundadores de la Expensr vendida a Strands, hace muy poco tiempo, [...]

By: wenbert

wenbert — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:57:26 +0000

i actually find this site very useful. in my free time, i work on freelance projects. so instead of writing everything in an email (for the reports), i just type into ididwork.com and not worry about anything else… this could actually work. they can even provide “paid” features – so i don’t see why some comments are saying that there is no business in this site :-/

By: Malik Aleem Ahmed

Malik Aleem Ahmed — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:33:05 +0000

Looks promising but what about the privacy issues? what about the data being sold to competition so they can take away the good employees? what about hacking? These questions needs to be considered and answered…..

By: Malik Aleem Ahmed

Malik Aleem Ahmed — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:31:03 +0000

Looks promising but also raises some privacy issues e.g. who will own the data and will the data be sold to other companies so that they can snatch the good employees from the competitors and hacking etc.

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:29:40 +0000

You and I were talking about different things.

Companies do outsourcing business information processing as you mentioned, but only to those well established businesses, not to those funded by VC. Security and privacy are just part of the issues, more important to business are liability and reliability etc.

By: Business Hacks mobile edition

Business Hacks mobile edition — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:00:54 +0000

[...] guys at TechCrunch seem to like it. For me, it doesn’t really make sense, as I use wikis like Basecamp to track my thoughts and [...]

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:24:05 +0000

A majority of the companies that TC covers are funded (or looking for funding) startups. Since TC is in the business of scooping stories about new companies, VCs who fund early-stage startups would be a good source for somewhat-vetted companies that no one has written stories about yet. So, as an early-stage investor (with a pretty-good reputation), YC companies are perfectly suited to the types of stories TC writes.

TC probably doesn’t write about every move from the big VC firms because a majority of those companies are getting B&C rounds and have already been written about.

By: Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - ididwork

Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - ididwork — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:55 +0000

[...] und regelmäßige Berichte an ihre Vorgesetzten senden können http://www.ididwork.com via: TechCrunch "ididwork" bookmarken oder [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:51:29 +0000

Looked interesting to me, but my company blocks the url — not sure if it’s listed specifically but WebWasher blocks it with a category of Spam URLs. so no use to me.

By: random

random — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:01:08 +0000

It would really be cool if it was not something you had to access the web every time to log a new item, it would be cool if they made an adobe air app in which a user can keep open and it will sync the data in the app with the live site.

By: Hillel

Hillel — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:46:34 +0000

lol pretty cool

By: Steven Sonsino

Steven Sonsino — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:40:04 +0000

These sound like exactly the kind of so called productivity and performance tools that bad bosses and poor leaders would love to impose on their people.

Let’s all increase the bureacracy everywhere, yay! 400-hour workweek anyone?

Some recent research I just published shows how we’re actually overwhelmed with things to do already. I can’t imagine many (any?) managers wanting to add more to their to-do list.

If you wanted proof that we’re overwhelmed and frustrated by senior managers and executives download The Death of Leadership report.

By: TSheets

TSheets — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:27:13 +0000

@ sd - a simple and easy way to manage those timesheets can be found at TSheets.com TSheets.com

By: Geoff Wright

Geoff Wright — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:11 +0000

Absolutely ridiculous. Please please please people.

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By: dude

dude — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:28:43 +0000

wat about researchers? 80% of them dont do work then