On: Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

[augustus]

Not sure I would ever pay for software to tell me where I am spending my time.

[a-priori → augustus]

While I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to (depending on the price, I may be one of them -- I'm a big fan of RescueTime), my understanding is that they are targeting businesses with their paid version.

[jfarmer → augustus]

No, but your boss would.

[gms → jfarmer]

Not exactly making the world a better place, is it.

[run4yourlives → augustus]

RescueTime is probably the most useful yCombinator app out there. I would certainly consider paying for it.

[ardit33 → augustus]

"Not sure I would ever pay for software to tell me where I am spending my time." --- Maybe not you, but your boss may. Rescuetime needs a function, where it can work in the background, so bosses will see what their employees are doing online.

I worked on a big financial company, and they monitor a lot of stuff. I wouldn't be suprised that they will find something like this useful.

[vaksel → ardit33]

they already have complete access to your system using VNC, and they already have complete stats of all your browsing

[jfarmer → vaksel]

VNC gives them a very fine-grained view. At any moment I can watch what any individual employee is doing.

That information, in and of itself, isn't very actionable. I'd prefer knowing that, on the whole, 10% of my company's man-hours are spent on digg, for example.

[mechanical_fish → augustus]

That depends on the price. If it saves me one hour per year, it's technically worth $50 or $60 per year, or more.

Of course, I'd have to think about that, whereas I'd pay $14.99 without a second thought. ;)