Yesterday our time tracker reached an important milestone. 50 000 users have signed up for the service. We have overcome the difficult obstacles of attracting the first users. In this process there is nothing more inspiring or motivating to us than a user publicly declaring love for Yast and tells us that we have made life just a little bit better.
On our way to 50 000 users...
An important part of the new upgrade is what we call “the business concept” and how it is organized. Basically there are 5 key elements.
We´re proud to announce that Yast won the fast-pitch competition at “Under the Radar” conference in Silicon Valley. The following VentureBeat article begins like this:
“When Halvor Gregusson got off the stage, an audience full of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors was cheering and the moderator was giving him a high-five.
In my previous post, Mission 1, I raised my first and most fundamental question of coming to San Francisco. Is our global approach an illusion, or is it common in USA? And my starting point is our partners at Appdirect. I did not exactly know what I would gain by sitting next to them, just assumed that being somewhere they talk about apps all the time would result in a greater knowledge of our industry.
In 2008, we started to make a time tracker that would be so easy to use that no one would ever again feel frustration when tracking time. That was our idea. And we knew that new programming methods had opened new possibilities to make programs (applications) work directly in a web browser.
Seeing other web applications distribute to a global market, and being tech students, of course we thought this was the way software would be distributed in the future. Of course we thought of global domination from day 1. It did not even strike us that this approach might contradict the usual ways of the local market.
We love your feedback! And we need your feedback. Even when we get more than we can handle, we appreciate everything you tell us. More is better. That´s why we every week will announce the winner of the award:
User of the week!
When you’re freelancing, you spend a lot of time on non-billable tasks. Things like quoting, accounts, research, reading emails and using Twitter. These are all essential tasks, but to run an efficient and profitable business, you need to know exactly how long you’re spending on them.
We are so few in this country, every fallen is brother or friend.
- Nordal Grieg -
We are out of words to describe our grief and sorrow after what happened in our capital Oslo and at the massacre of Utøya where a total of 93 persons where killed and several people injured. Today, in remembrance of the victims, Yast will have a black background color.
About a year back, we got an email from one of our users, Glenn Murray, suggesting a few improvements to the Yast time tracker. Glenn’s a freelance copywriter who had tried nearly every time tracker on the net, only to be disappointed. Then he discovered Yast!
From the conversation that followed, it became clear Glenn was already something of a Yast power user. He was doing things with Yast we’d never thought anyone would do, and had feature requests we’d never imagined.
So when we decided to introduce guest bloggers to our blog, Glenn was the first name that came to mind.
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