88 Miles: Tag business

It's a business, not a startup

Myles Eftos — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:46:00 +0800

The Beachhouse has had a steady stream of visitors recently, that have been involved with startups. It has been interesting how 88 Miles is considered a “Startup” which hasn't really been sitting well with me — 88 Miles is a product of MadPilot Productions, which isn't really a startup either.

Well, 37 Signals has just run a blog post, that explains why I have been uneasy. I'm not running a startup — I'm running a business. And I agree that people think in terms of startups, not businesses.

So if you are running a startup, make sure you are running a business too.

Upgrade times and more flexible accounts

Myles Eftos — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0900

Welcome to the December of edition of the 88 Miles newsletter! This month brings some cool updates to 88 Miles, which I hope will make your lives just that little bit easier.

88 Miles tip

Did you know you can manually add shifts to a project retrospectively?

This is really handy if you forgot to punch in, or if you did some work away from you computer.

Just click the “Options” button, select “Summary” from the drop-down panel and then click “Manually add a shift”.

New accounts

The biggest update this month is the introduction of the new business accounts. The business version has been in beta for a couple of months, and it is now time for it to go live!

The pricing structure should cater for everyone — there is a price point for everyone from freelancers to huge corporations — if you are interested in seeing how much is all costs now, goto the pricing page. For those of you who were business beta testers, you get a special surprise — you get access to the corporate version of 88 Miles for free for the next 12 months (Value: $648!).

The other big news is that the free account has just become useful! The free account has no time limits, and has no limit on the number of staff you can have. The only limit is you can only punch 40 hours per month (so roughly 10 hours per week). As a result, those of you who's accounts have expired have been un-expired — so login again and see what has changed!

Better reports

88 Miles will now generate graphs for project summaries and project staff summaries. If your have a JavaScript enabled browser, you will be able get a visual representation of where your time is going.

To see the graphs:

Pick a project
Click “Options”
Click “Summary”
Click “Graph view”

Until next time...

Happy time tracking! (And remember to tell you friends!)

Myles Eftos
88 Miles creator

This week in updates

Myles Eftos — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:13:35 +0800

The 88 Miles team have been busy little beavers of the past couple of weeks, with a number of updates that rolled out over the weekend — the list is as follows (in reverse order of significance):

Minor GUI updates: Fixed the lengths of text boxes on Macs and fixed some typos.
Daily totals: You can now see the total hours you have worked for a company and on a project at the click of a button. Extremely useful if you switch betwen jobs all day
Mobile Edition Beta: Access 88 Miles via your mobile phone! There are two versions, a WAP 1.1 for older phones and a WAP 2.x version for newer phones and PDAs. Currently you can only punch-in and punch-out from existing projects, but if there is enough interest in adding other features (such as adding companies and projects), We're all ears. The URLs are:
- WAP 1.1: http://www.88miles.net/wap
- WAP 2.0/PDA: http://www.88miles.net/mobile
Business Edition Beta: Previously, if you wanted to use 88 Miles for all of you staff, you needed to created separate accounts with separate billing for each user, and there was no way of collating the time totals across users. Well no more! The business edition allows you to create staff members under one account, and to see summaries for all of those users, either separately or together. Interested? You can sign up for the free business user beta test group at http://www.88miles.net/pages/business

Phew! What a list. It's all part of our mission of keeping 88 Miles simple, yet making it powerful at the same time. As always, if you have any feedback, leave a comment below, or send as a message.

Happy tracking!

Myles Eftos