Busy vs FontBase

Intuitive time tracking - visualized on a horizontal timeline. In a familiar interface most people know how to use - a calendar.

Busy delivers intuitive time tracking - visualized on a horizontal timeline. Your timeline is presented in a familiar interface most people know how to use - a calendar. It works as a calendar but is unlike any calendar.

Our mobile app for iOS gives you a glance at your timeline for the day. Log hours, edit entries and see what’s going on, wherever you are.

Our perspective:

Most people don't like tracking time, and most time tracking tools won't score more than 3 if you were to rate them on a scale from 1-10. The existing tools are usually complicated to use and not very sexy. On a mission to break 3, we decided to build Busy.

First, we looked at how time is best visualized. In books time if often visualized on a horizontal timeline, taking you from A to B, making it easy to pin events.

Second, we looked on how we could best implement the concept of a timeline in a familiar interface most people know how to use. Most people know how to use a calendar, and by rotating a traditional calendar sideways we ended up with a timeline.

The result is Busy. It works as a calendar but is unlike any calendar.

Location: Oslo, Norway

A super fast, beautiful, and free font manager for designers

FontBase http://fontba.se gives you all the stability, speed and reliability of a paid font manager, but free and on all platforms! We aim to disrupt the market of big font managers by offering a affordable for every designer (like us) free solution. Our main goal is to create the fastest and the most beautiful and easy to use font manager there is.

We already got a lot of positive feedback from our userbase. In the first day of launch on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fontbase-2-0) we got over 600 upvotes. Our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FontBaseApp) has over 600 subscribers and our email newsletter (http://eepurl.com/bEUj9j) has over 900 users on list. For us this means, that we definitely doing something in the right way. In the future we plan to implement a lot of awesome features, like single click Google fonts install; a way to monitor all the new fonts, that are published on the web; cooperating with font foundries and designers to allow rent and test font seamlessly in the app and in design software.

We are designers by ourselves, and we are creating a tool for designers, just like us. This is why we are getting a lot of fun out of our work and this is why FontBase will become the best font manager out there.