Eclocking has not gotten the reception I had hoped from the world wide web. It doesn’t solve a problem that most people care about.
With this in mind I have decided to spend my time on something else for now. I will leave eclocking up, and I will continue to use it myself.
Here’s two things I learned when I launched eclocking yesterday.
I had hoped that people would figure out what eclocking was all about by playing with it. This wasn’t the case. My statistics from the first day were as follows:
900 people saw the timer (that's was the front page) 358 people saw the tour or used the history page
About 60% of the visitors left before they even understood what eclocking was all about. They won’t be back.
While building eclocking, I tried to keep it as generic as possible in order to attract a broader audience. Problem is, most people didn’t see a specific scenarios where it would be useful.
I will probably need to pick either timed athletic activities (jogging, biking) or timed billing (lawyers, contractors). Eclocking currently isn’t the ideal solution for either.
I’ve added a more informative front page to eclocking.com. As far as choosing a niche, I’m going to give myself some time to gather information before shifting my direction.
Today it is my pleasure to introduce the world to eclocking.com.
Eclocking is my attempt to create the ideal stopwatch. Typical stopwatches have no capacity for storing, organizing or displaying your data. What’s the point of timing something if you’re not going to keep track of it?
With eclocking, once you’ve recorded a timing, you tag it and save it. Now you can create charts, filter your data, edit your data, export it, etc. This is your data, do whatever you want with it.
Your data is stored on our servers so it travels with you. You don’t have to mess with files or programs.
It can be a little cumbersome to carry a laptop computer with you everywhere. I’ve created a mobile web version so you can use eclocking on your phone, ipod touch or other compatible device.
Please give eclocking a try and leave me some feedback. This is just the beginning. With your help and feedback we can turn eclocking into something great!
I’ve done some work over the last few weeks.
Here’s a graph of the time I’ve spent so far:
As you can see I started this project on 6/14 and have logged about 96 hours since then.
This week I added the ability to display cumulative charts like this one (just click the chart on the history page).
Anyone who happens to find this blog post is invited to try the private beta, which is now live. To gain access please navigate to http://eclocking.com/beta.
I’ve always been a geek for collecting stats. As a kid I spent hours typing all the basketball player statistics from my NBA Live video game into a spreadsheet for fun.
I recently took up jogging, so of course I got out the old stopwatch and started logging my times into a spreadsheet. Manually transferring times from the LCD display of my stopwatch into my google docs spreadsheet wasn’t ideal so I set out to look for something better.
I found the following:
Each of these websites provide an online stopwatch, but they all lack the features I was looking for, the ability to save and chart your times.
I am putting the finishing touches on a better stopwatch. Some of it’s features are:
Stay tuned, more to follow in the weeks to come.