No rhyme or reason to the apps I make. Here they are.
A time clock for construction crews and a scorekeeper for a dice game. They have nothing to do with each other. I built each one because I wanted it and what already existed didn't suit — and then other people started using them, which is how they ended up on a website.
Both of them are in people's hands.
Not concepts. Each is being used by the people it was built for, which is where every awkward detail in them came from.
A time clock for construction and field-service crews, built by somebody who runs one. Your crew tap once; WorkPro works out which job the hours belong to from where the work actually happened.
- Replaces writing the day down and hoping you remember it on Friday
- Replaces picking a job code nobody picks correctly
- Replaces the argument about the twenty minutes at the merchant
A scorekeeper for the dice game you might know as Farkle. You roll; it keeps the running total, the busts and the final turn, plus the stats and the leaderboard. Pair a set of GoDice and it reads the faces for you, or switch on Chaos mode for a deck of cards and a wheel of forfeits.
- Replaces the back of an envelope and somebody's mental arithmetic
- Replaces the argument about whether that roll actually busted
- Puts the same board on every phone at the table from one code
Because the alternatives are priced for somebody else.
Each one got built because I wanted it and what already existed cost more than the job was worth. Good software, most of it — but priced for a company with a purchasing department, and sold to a crew of four who only needed the hours to add up.
So these get priced for what they are. Ten Thousand is free. WorkPro is free while it is in beta and paid after that — and the going rate for a crew time clock is about $50 a month plus $6 a head, which is roughly $100 a month for a crew of eight before anybody has done any work. WorkPro will be less than that. The figure is not settled yet; it gets published here before anybody is charged, and there is no call with anybody to find it out.
Need something that costs more than it should?
If there is a tool you need and the existing answer is priced for a company you are not, say what it is. That is how both of these started, and it is the most useful email I get.