MakeSomeTime Blog

MakeSomeTime API

Gilbert Pellegrom — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:09:59 +0000

Today we launched the MakeSomeTime API. This has been in the works for a while but until now has been left in the cellar. But now it’s finally seeing the light of day. Hopefully this will spur on more development of 3rd party MakeSomeTime apps and maybe even some mobile apps. If you create anything cool with the API make sure and let us know.

As always let us know what you think and if there is any way we can improve the API. Also today you will notice a change in the adverts on MakeSomeTime. As a result of making the app completely free we’ve decided to use the new single top ad to help cover the costs of running the site. Hopefully you guys won’t mind too much and might even enjoy some of the ads.

Anyway, check out the API and let us know what you think.

MakeSomeTime.com Has Moved

Gilbert Pellegrom — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:22:44 +0000

Just to let you know that the downtime over the last few days has been due to our migration to a VPS.net server. Hopefully things should be running faster than ever. If you find any bugs or have any problems please let us know.

We are actually so cutting edge now that I’m afraid OpenId will not be enabled for the moment because it doesn’t work with the latest version of PHP. Hopefully this will be sorted soon.

MakeSomeTime is now Completely Free

Gilbert Pellegrom — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:20:10 +0000

After much deliberation and listening to your comments about the old pricing scheme for MakeSomeTime I have decided to make MakeSomeTime completely free!

All aspects of the app are now free to use. This decision was also encouraged by the fact that I am no longer actively developing MakeSomeTime, however I will still be fixing bugs when I find them. If you had any credit remaining in your account it has been set to zero and no refund will be given.

I hope you enjoy this change to MakeSomeTime and continue to get a lot of use out of the app. As always please let me know what you think.

Pricing Scheme Change

Gilbert Pellegrom — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:05:28 +0000

A smallish change to MakeSomeTime today. We’ve decided to change the pricing scheme slightly to help us continue to run the site as best we can. Instead of charging a flat rate of $1 to send invoices we will now charge 1% of the invoice total (in USD) to send an invoice. Note that you can still create as many invoices as you want and re-sending invoices will cost you nothing.

So for example:

Sending an invoice with a total of $100 will cost you $1.
Sending an invoice with a total of $250 will cost you $3.
Sending an invoice with a total of $500 will cost you $5.
And so on…

As always we love to hear what you think about the changes we make to MakeSomeTime. So let us know.

Small Tweaks

Gilbert Pellegrom — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:24:28 +0000

Today we released some small changes and bug fixes to the system. These include:

Upgrade to allow UTF-8 support (meaning Iñtërnâtiônàl users can use the system better).
Fixed task editing time formatting to allow you to edit hours greater than 99.

MakeSomeTime Support Now Powered by Qhub

Gilbert Pellegrom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:24 +0000

Just a quick update to let everyone know we are trying out a new support service on Qhub. We will lose all of the old support requests but hope that using Qhub will be easier for you guys to let us know what you think about MakeSomeTime.

So if you ever have any feedback about the app or just want to ask us a question you can do so at http://makesometime.qhub.com, or just click on the “Ask a Question” widget on any MakeSomeTime page.

MakeSomeTime Get’s a Facelift

Gilbert Pellegrom — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:11:53 +0000

We decided that MakeSomeTime could do with a facelift to enhance the look of the app and make it more professional looking while still keeping it simple. This is now version 3 and we hope you like it. As always any feedback on the new design would be much appreciated.

As usual the design updates will reach the blog eventually and an updated demo video will soon follow.

$100 MakeSomeTime Credit Contest Winner

Gilbert Pellegrom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:38:35 +0000

Congratulations to Sara who has just won $100 worth of MakeSomeTime credit. Happy invoicing.

Sponsor MakeSomeTime

Gilbert Pellegrom — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:17:35 +0000

Would you like to reach an instant audience of professionals? Fancy some brand exposure and targeted traffic from the web’s hottest time tracking service? Well now you can get some.

Recently MakeSomeTime has been approved on Project Wonderful which is an advertising network with a bidding scheme. The main advantage of this is it means you only have to bid higher than other people to get your advert on MakeSomeTime. You can even advertise for free at first. Well worth checking out.

So if you fancy sponsoring MakeSomeTime and want to get your ads out to our audience then head on over to our advertising page and see if it might be for you.

Service Update 16th Feb 2010

Gilbert Pellegrom — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:43:30 +0000

Apart from upgrading our pricing scheme today another small change occurred so this is just to make you guys aware of it. Rounding of numbers in Invoices has now been sorted so it is now far more accurate. Also on project invoices the amount of time in hours is now shown to 1 decimal place and if the time for a task is less than 1 hour it will show the time in “30 mins” rather than “0.5 hours” (or whatever time).