Enjoy online time tracking with Timepost

Wow, if that is not ridiculously expensive, I have a barrel of oil I want to sell you.

As everyone else has already said, where the hell do they get off trying to charge £50 for an app that could be made in an afternoon by a coding beginner? Importantly though, I came here from my feed aggregator specifically to comment because recently I've been getting more and more crap from TUAW - it seems to me that instead of being a reliable blog with interesting journalism, TUAW has become like so many other high profile blogs, simply a vehicle for (shoddy and unsubtle) advertising.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but seriously, how many incredibly niche relatively expensive apps can you guys cover per day?

Am I missing something here? For 99 cents more ($49.99), you can get iBiz which is a strong time billing an invoices manager application with both widget and menubar projects related timer.

http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/

Nice but I can't believe people are still making time tracking apps that do not run from the menu bar and to save valuable screen space. Take this with its web service integration and the UI from Work-Timer - http://www.cherryware.de/index.php?section=worktimer&lang=en and I think you'd have a pretty perfect app.

As of today, Harvest has an elegant iPhone interface for time and expense tracking: http://news.getharvest.com/articles/2008/05/22/time-and-expense-tracking-from-your-iphone/

In my opinion Timepost has too many rough edges to justify its price.

1) Often after stopping the timer the "Clear" and "Post" buttons aren't clickable. Usually restarting Timepost fixes the problem.
2) Often the indentation in the list of tasks is inconsistent.
3) Often when Timepost isn't able to submit time it locks up.
4) Tasks don't stay in sync. I use Tick. When I add a task to Tick it's added to Timepost but when I remove a task from Tick it's not removed from Timepost.

Those are minor problems. Here are a few biggies:

5) Unless the problem is that Timepost isn't able to connect to the service that you're using it with it won't let you know when it was unable to submit time.
6) I sent an e-mail to Timepost support re these problems. A few days later they responded with something along the lines of:

"A new version of Timepost has been released, it's fixed in it."

After having described roughly a half dozen bugs they tell me "it" has been fixed with no indication of what "it" is in their response or the new version's release notes. Not very helpful.

If you can live with these problems you'll probably find that Timepost is usable.

I think the price is reasonable. It's targeted at professional users. $50 for an app that manages an important part of your workflow is not a big deal.

Ok, let's see...

Freshbooks
http://www.freshbooks.com/add-ons/#time_tracking

Harvest
http://www.getharvest.com/widget

Tick
http://www.tickspot.com/widgets/

So there...

I'd gladly pay $5 or even $10 for this since I'm a Basecamp user. $49 is WAY out of control, though.

TUAW why would you cover such a ridiculously over priced App??? I understand (and love) when you cover ones that are a good value and do interesting things... but a $50 stop watch????