Ask HN: Recommendations for tracking freelancer's time

2 points by tren 14y ago ↗ HN

My city has opened its first shared working space for freelancers. They're wondering what the best way to track people's time is, as each freelancer is allocated a certain number of hours to use the office space per month. Is there any open source software that already does this?

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andrewfelix 14y ago ↗

I have been grappling with a similar problem and have been developing a system to track time without individuals continuously having to login in somewhere and update a database.

Essentially my idea involves an auto generated email every Friday which asks the user how they will be spending their time the following week. They are given several options in the form of unique URL's. These URL's update the DB automatically without the user having to login anywhere.