Thomas Fuchs
Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of the script.aculo.us user interface JavaScript library, a member of the Prototype core team and a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. You're using my work every day, even if you're not aware of it (sounds creepy, I know!). Need JS foo? Hire me.

freckle is live!

December 3rd, 2008 by Thomas Fuchs, 6 comments »

In case you haven’t read it on our twitter account, first, follow us already, and then head over to http://letsfreckle.com/ to sign up for a test or free account! :)

freckle

The fruit of our hard labor, freckle time tracking, is now live and it works just great. This is in part due to the awesome infrastructure that is now available for hosted applications, in particular two services for Ruby on Rails: Exceptional, and New Relic RPM. Plus good ol’ (well not so) Github.

Besides having a cute name, freckle also stars the latest and greatest scriptaculous 2 and I promise some announcement on that in the near future.

Besides, be sure to subscribe to the freckle blog—we not only will post product-related announcements there but much more (like the article on Ecommerce Stuff Nobody Tells You).

Our journey through the wonderful world of software-as-a-service has just begun… :)

And now, going for some Glühwein at one of Vienna’s awesome christmas markets.

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6 Comments on “freckle is live!”

  1. 1 Amber said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    I am just starting to get a grasp on the auth.net and usaepay systems – that "Stuff Nobody Tells" was amazing. I know I am little late on the take with this but I am excited to start freckling! thanks

  2. 2 stephen said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    All I have to say…it is about time someone came out with app that isn’t boring and dull. It is not often that you find something that is affordable for small businesses and fun to play around with. Now at least I get something useful done when I get side tracked. Awesome!

  3. 3 Noor said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    Congrats!

  4. 4 Lew Cirne (New Relic) said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    Thomas,

    Congrats on the launch of Freckle! It looks like an awesome service that will bring value to tons of consultants out there, taking the tedium out of time tracking.

    It really makes me glad to hear that New Relic was helpful to you as you prepared for launch, and we hope to continually be valuable to you as your site evolves and customer base increases. Best of luck!

    -Lew

  5. 5 HK said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    did you drop ie support, forever :) ?

  6. 6 Thomas said at 6:45 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    @HK: we do actually support IE7. we might add IE6 support later, but only if there’s a VERY GOOD REASON. IE actually is used by about 1% of our user base, with the most popular browsers being about 45% Safari and 45% Firefox.