Freelance Retainer Burn-Down Tracker
Why This is an Opportunity
Retainer tracking is too small for full-blown time tracking tools but too important for spreadsheets. A focused burn-down view with client-facing read-only links is the entire product.
Key Pain Points
- •Client emails asking 'how many hours do I have left this month?' and you have to go update the spreadsheet before replying
- •Forgetting to log time for 3 days and then trying to reconstruct what you worked on
- •Retainer rolls over unused hours and the spreadsheet formula breaks every time
- •Awkward conversation when the client thinks they have 10 hours left but they actually burned through it last week
Original Discovery
Freelancers on monthly retainers (designers, devs, copywriters) need to track how many hours they've used against the retainer and show clients where the time went. Right now it's a spreadsheet they update manually and email to the client. This app auto-calculates remaining hours, shows a visual burn-down, and gives each client a live link to check their balance.
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