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Re:Tell HN: My "remote employee management" startup by heymatty on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @12:50PM (#1595211)
I like it, and will probably end-up using it and wouldn't mind paying for it. I know you just got your MVP out the door, but a couple things that I would like to see before I start using it:

* Delete/Edit button for projects created; * SSL option (on/off in account settings); * Mac/Linux client; * Option to turn off the screen capture per project or per user.

Re:Tell HN: My "remote employee management" startup by coryl on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @03:27PM (#1595773)
heymatty, thanks for the suggestions. We are actually thinking of porting over to Java to support Mac and Linux. Delete/edit should be simple. We'll look into SSL.

May I ask why you need the option to turn off screenshots? We considered this initially, but logic was that screenshot updates was the point of our software and weren't sure why anyone would use our service to turn off screenshots. Thanks

Re:Tell HN: My "remote employee management" startup by heymatty on Thursday August 12, 2010 @01:31AM (#1597310)
The fundamental for me is to adequately track hours worked for my remote workers. The screenshot feature is a tool to verify that the hours logged were for actual work.

I want to be able to track time without relying on the user to submit it manually. I want a tool that submits automatically with me controlling the idle time and if I want screenshots or not.

After a while when you develop a trust relationship with your remote workers you don't necessarily want to take screenshots all the time and/or for all projects. Screenshots are not always necessary and can, if used all the time, wear down morale.

If you work with a new remote workers on a quick project, sure why not. But when these remote workers becomes part of your company and are working 40+ hours a week for several months, it's overkill.

Also for sensitive projects - I don't necessarily want screenshots published on a 3rd party site and/or be submitted over an unencrypted connection.