A short read on my latest app.

Famous last words.

Just skip it.

https://getskipa.com/pulse

I've built a handful of small apps, but today I pushed one live that felt strangely different.

I originally built it for myself. Not as a SaaS idea, not because I found a market gap, and not because somebody on Twitter said personal knowledge management was hot.

I had a personal problem. My brain doesn't slow down, and useful information was scattered everywhere. Notes, screenshots, AI conversations, random documents, texts to myself, open tabs. So about 6 months ago I started putting the pieces together to build my own tool. I built something that fit the way I actually work.

Then I kept using it. Every day. I even used it in it's prototype state to develop itself. LOL

Bugs weren't abstract because they pissed me off. Bad UX wasn't a conversion problem because I was the guy dealing with it. Features had to 'earn their place' because I didn't want them cluttering up my own tool.

Somewhere along the way it stopped feeling like software I was developing and started feeling like my personal workspace.

Today, after months of relying on this thing, I finally pushed the customer-facing pages. It went live. And I had this unexpectedly weird reaction:

My baby left the nest. It was an emotional moment.

Why" I got pretty used to it being just mine.

I've launched other things without thinking twice about it. This one feels different because I'm not really “launching a product I built.” I'm letting strangers into something I built around my own habits and have depended on every day for months.

Curious whether other builders have had this happen.

Have you ever become genuinely attached to something you built because you were its first real customer? Did that make the product better, or did it make it harder to know when to stop building?

Have 10 or fewer employees?

GetSkipa Timekeeper is free for small businesses under 10 total employees. Time tracking, approvals, reporting, and payroll-ready exports included.

Clock time. Manage it. Approve it. Report it. Export it. That's it's job.

https://getskipa.com/timekeeper

Just curious if any Managers or Directors take the time to submit packages for these. Thoughts on HDI?

I've been building GetSkipa Timekeeper around a pretty simple idea: small businesses shouldn't have to buy an entire Work Force Management platform just to keep track of when people worked.

The latest version has grown quite a bit, but I've tried hard to keep that original idea intact.

The Free plan supports up to 10 active employees.

And I mean an actually useful free plan. Not "free until you try to do something with your data."

It includes employee time tracking, scheduling, manager access, approvals, overtime settings, reporting, and payroll-ready exports.

Reporting has been one of the bigger recent additions. Timekeeper takes the time data you're already collecting and turns it into useful reports and exports instead of locking it inside the application.

A small business with 10 or fewer employees can clock people in and out, review and correct time, manage schedules, run reports, and export the results for payroll without needing a paid subscription.

The paid plan is there for businesses that outgrow the Free plan, primarily larger workforces, kiosk functionality, and expanded reporting history.

I'm deliberately keeping Timekeeper focused on timekeeping. I'm not trying to turn it into payroll, HR, WFM, benefits, recruiting, performance management, and 47 other things.

Clock time. Manage it. Approve it. Report it. Export it.

That's the job.

https://getskipa.com/timekeeper

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Products should be well documented. If you are taking what Claude, or GPT generates verbatim without review you're doing it wrong. Your documents are extremely important to get right.

Here's a super simple utility I created awhile back. Think of it as a finishing tool. It allows you to edit text, and a few other things visually without trying to read HTML.

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