Hi Everyone. I am looking for freelancers and people who work in distributed teams to give feedback on our site and concept. The idea is really quite simple. People who freelance often find themselves working in ad-hoc teams on projects. They need a way to communicate time reporting and approval and the cheapest way to do that is by using a spreadsheet template and email. It is cheap but not efficent.

Our concept is to provide a free site where people are their own accounts and invite other people to join them on a project. A project team can include workers, an admin, a manager, and even a client. You set the rules for the project, define each person's role, invite team members, and start tracking and approving time.

The main concept is that application vendors treat this process like an application when it's really about communicating. If it's easy enough, people won't mind doing it, and doing it well. So I would appreciate feedback on three things;

1. Does the concept make sense?
2. Is the site intuitive to you?
3. What advice would you have?

Thanks in advance for your input. We appreciate all comments, good or bad, because our goal is to make this process as easy as it can be.

www.timeXchange.net

Joe

Can they not use MS Project to track the project schedule, I am sure even freelancers will have issue publishing project details in some no so known website.

Our typical user is actually using Excel and email, not MS Project. Excel lacks the collaboration and communication required (i.e. approval, status, etc.) and Project is expensive and requires user administartion.

I would like to see some examples of your work and other's project samples and some more pictures on the site would be nice. It is so cut and dry. Just because you have a technical site does not mean it has to be soooooooo boring.