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Studio Timer is a macOS menu bar app that automatically tracks your hours in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, After Effects and 9 others. The app also features an automated billing and invoice pipeline.
I built this app after a decade of freelance editing. Tracking my time with screenshots, manual entries, and a lot of guesswork. Hours always found a way to slip through the cracks no matter how careful I was.
My rates were plenty respectable. The real problem was that I had no concrete picture of where my time actually went. When starting a project, I preferred to go straight to editing and worry about adding up the time later. Realistically, I was quietly under-billing every project for years. Losing minutes here, forgetting hours there. Over time, there were hundreds of hours that I worked and never charged for. That's money and time that I'll never get back.
None of the creative apps I lived in allowed me to track project times, so I started building Studio Timer for myself. What started as a simple menubar start and stop time keeper, turned into a fully automated time tracker, billing, and analytics app.
Studio Timer's automatic tracking shows you the truth of how much time you spend on your projects. Turning that truth into accurate (to the minute) invoices and making sure you know just how much time you spent in the zone. A few beta testers have already hit record-income months, just by billing for the hours they used to lose.
If you have ever finished a project wondering where the time, and the money went, this is for you.
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About Studio Timer on Product Hunt
“Automatic Time Tracking for Digital Creatives”
Studio Timer was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. Studio Timer is a macOS menu bar app that automatically tracks your hours in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, After Effects and 9 others. The app also features an automated billing and invoice pipeline.
Studio Timer was featured in Analytics (172.3k followers), Time Tracking (11.8k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 20.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Studio Timer?
Studio Timer was hunted by Taylor Mac Brown. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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I built this app after a decade of freelance editing. Tracking my time with screenshots, manual entries, and a lot of guesswork. Hours always found a way to slip through the cracks no matter how careful I was.
My rates were plenty respectable. The real problem was that I had no concrete picture of where my time actually went. When starting a project, I preferred to go straight to editing and worry about adding up the time later. Realistically, I was quietly under-billing every project for years. Losing minutes here, forgetting hours there. Over time, there were hundreds of hours that I worked and never charged for. That's money and time that I'll never get back.
None of the creative apps I lived in allowed me to track project times, so I started building Studio Timer for myself. What started as a simple menubar start and stop time keeper, turned into a fully automated time tracker, billing, and analytics app.
Studio Timer's automatic tracking shows you the truth of how much time you spend on your projects. Turning that truth into accurate (to the minute) invoices and making sure you know just how much time you spent in the zone. A few beta testers have already hit record-income months, just by billing for the hours they used to lose.
If you have ever finished a project wondering where the time, and the money went, this is for you.
Try it out: https://studiotimer.io
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