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Kanban, time tracking, client access for freelancers and small teams. Free in beta, invoices free until 30 Apr 2027. Per workspace, not per seat. #buildinpublic

[Tasklans @tasklans]

Small trap: the Website field on X holds 100 characters and cuts the rest without a word. Our tagged profile link was 101, so every click arrived with utm_content=bio-lin.

Fixed by dropping utm_content, 80 characters now. Count a link before you paste it.

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@xCB06fr Good one: the same wall-clock time at both ends, so anything that ignores the offset gets zero. Our Duration comes from stored minutes and reads 01:00 there. Our test runs 01:30 +02:00 to 02:30 +01:00 and expects 02:00; yours is the sharper edge.

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Clocks go back in Europe this weekend, so 02:00-02:59 happens twice. Our work-log CSV now stamps each start and stop with its offset (02:30 +02:00, then 02:30 +01:00), adds UTC columns, and keeps Duration as real elapsed time.

Suggested by @xCB06fr, thanks.

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@cooldaddpj Same month for scale: Google sent 4 clicks, all from people searching our name. Assistants sent none, and only two of their search bots read pages at all. Being read and being cited look like separate steps.

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Our site's first month in the server log, AI edition:
GPTBot: never came.
OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot: 230 visits, robots.txt only.
Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot: one page crawl each.
125 "AI bot" hits: scanners after secrets.
Clicks from ChatGPT & co: 0.
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@IndexDoctor_ Thanks for actually testing it. You're right, and the correction is in the thread: Cloudflare's managed robots.txt plus a 403 for training bots, while search bots get through. So "never came" really meant "turned away at the door".

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Correction to the AI crawler numbers, via a reader's tip: GPTBot and ClaudeBot didn't skip us. Cloudflare's managed robots.txt disallows training crawlers and blocks them with a 403. Search bots (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot) get through.

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Hours across client projects rarely vanish in one big mistake. They leak: a timer running through lunch, a 15-minute fix for another client never logged.
Our free setup: the timer on the task, not the day, plus a 5-minute log check every evening.
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@samir_sawarkar Fair. In our experience the board is the quick part; roles and who sees what take most of the time. What's first on your list?

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@PyLocket Fair point. Duration is the unambiguous column: elapsed time from UTC stamps. A full local date-time with offset on Started and Stopped is on our list, see the thread above.

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Built solo, so a fair question: can I take my data with me?
Yes. Tasks and work logs export to CSV from their lists, work logs for any date range. UTF-8 with BOM, so Excel keeps Slovak accents and Cyrillic intact, and times are in your timezone.
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[Tasklans @tasklans]

@xCB06fr Agreed on keeping Duration separate: it's the one column that stays right whatever the clocks do. Full local date-time with offset, plus UTC columns for recalculation, goes on our list for the work-log export. Thanks for the careful test cases.

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@xCB06fr Half of it holds: Duration is elapsed time from UTC stamps, so 01:30 to 02:30 second pass exports as 02:00. The stamps don't: local HH:MM, no offset. What would you rather check billable time against, an offset on each stamp or extra UTC columns?

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Built solo, so a fair question: can I take my data with me?
Yes. Tasks and work logs export to CSV from their lists, work logs for any date range. UTF-8 with BOM, so Excel keeps Slovak accents and Cyrillic intact, and times are in your timezone.
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Invoicing is a Pro feature: PDF invoices with per-line VAT, in English or Slovak.
Pro can't be bought yet, so rather than keep invoices locked, we made them free for everyone until 30 Apr 2027. A date, not "forever". Issued invoices stay yours after it.
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@iamsuccessobasi Good luck with the first Friday update. Curious which part ends up eating the most hours by page five: copy, revisions or waiting on the client.

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Free for good in Tasklans: 10 users, 10 projects, 10 clients, unlimited tasks, time tracking, Kanban, real-time and a Client role that never shows your rates.
Pro will add unlimited projects and invoicing. Invoices are free for everyone until 30 Apr 2027.
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[Tasklans @tasklans]

Move a card on the board - your client sees it move. No refresh, no "let me send you a screenshot".

Kanban + timer + client access, all real-time over WebSockets.

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