Introduction

Hours allows you to create projects and track how long you have worked on them.

There are many, many other applications that solve this problem (most much more effectively than hours).

I built Hours for two reasons.

  1. I wanted to build a CLI app in Go. This was a great opportunity to try that out.
  2. I was curious to experience how sharing types between client and server shaped development. TL;DR - I loved it.

Here’s Hours in action:

Hours demo

The Joy of Small

I love building small, “complete” tools like Hours.

The simpicity and smallness makes it easier to avoid having to reach for third-party tools and just rely on Go’s standard library.

The limited scope of what the tool needs to do means I can actually finish the project instead of getting it to 90% and calling it good enough.