Minuteglass Blog

We just pushed our biggest deployment yet to the live server. Below you can find a list of improvements.

1. Notes you write on time entries are now automatically saved. Previously, if you were to navigate away from that page, or select another category the note you had just written would be lost.
2. Improvements to Manual Time Entry. It is now easier to enter a duration, rather than having to select a start and end time.
3. Time entry notes are now associated with a specific category. This means that when you switch between categories Minuteglass will remember the note you last used in that category.
4. A number of minor bugs were solved. This includes a bug that caused time entries in certain circumstances to be a negative amount.
5. Export of CSV files is now working properly. Previously, CSV exports did not include the “.csv” file extension. Also, exporting all of your time entries as one CSV file is now possible on the Settings / Account page.
6. The “Default Billing Rate” setting was not working correctly for some users and is now fixed.
7. We’ve released our first version of inline editing on Recorded Time. Now, you can click once on a row and have options to edit an entry. You can also use your keyboard up and down arrows to adjust time.
8. Our API is partially complete. Our full API will be released and documented at a later date.

Thanks to all of our beta testers for providing feedback!

Minuteglass is in private beta at the moment, and our team is rapidly making progress towards a full public launch in 2010.

In software development there is this concept of a minimum viable product. We’re there, but we’ve decided to tweak some features before we expand our beta further. Our initial set of beta testers have given us a lot of great feedback and we are grateful for their support.

Some of the feedback we’ve received:

• People have had problems with our CSV exports, and we’re addressing these problems (they’ll be fixed with our next deployment).
• People want better reports, including multi-day reports… this is in the works!
• Minor confusion about our upgrade process and how the categories work. We are working on improvements that should help ease the learning curve.

More progress:

• Our promotional web site is all designed and will be ready to be rolled live as soon as we expand our beta.
• Our API is mostly complete and will be released in early 2010.
• We’ve been working on our desktop widget and it is about 50% complete. It is being build using Adobe AIR, and will be released on multiple platforms.
• Inline editing on previously recorded time entries is in the works.
• A number of bug fixes and minor visual improvements will be deployed soon.

BIG THANK YOU to our beta testers who have and continue to send us feedback, it is much appreciated.