May 03
Today's service interruption
Between 15:29 and 15:50 CEST, mite was not available for most users due to server problems on our side. We’re so sorry for this interruption!
You can bet on it: we’re not taking this lightly. We’re already investigating the root of the downtime to prevent this from happening again. mite should and will be stable again.
April 26
More powerful Excel & CSV export
Thumbs up: the busiest mite.account has created more than 100,000 time entries by now. But even if we put this spike aside, we’re seeing more and more accounts with five-digit data. Which is absolutely great—besides one fact: those huge figures brought the Excel/CSV export feature (which can be found under the tab »Reports => Time Entries«) down to their knees.
Time for a rebuild! Thanks to today’s update, even huge data sets can now be exported reliably. Furthermore, we were able to significantly accelerate the export. It is now up to three times faster. Ready, set, go, to your next 100,000 time entries!
March 21
Keyboard shortcuts
You answered the mail, made your customer happy, and closed the deal. Now, you could move your hand away from the keyboard over to the mouse, click the tab »Time tracking«, search for the running timer, and click to stop it. Or, you could simply type s.
Keyboard shortcuts are here! From today on, all main features can be triggered this way, too. Keyboard shortcuts can be a real time saver—we do recommend to take five minutes to memorize them.
Amongst other things, the new shortcuts support time tracking actions and navigating tabs. To see the whole package, please press ? (in mite). If your cursor is active in an input field, please press esc first to leave the field.
Hopefully, you’ll be able to speed up your time tracking considerably thanks to the brand spanking new keyboard shortcuts. Please get in touch if you happen to stumble upon a bug, or if you have any ideas on how to improve them. Merci!
February 21
Securing mite with HTTPS-only
When accessing mite on the web, we offered optional HTTPS from very early on. Today, we switched to HTTPS-only. Thus, the connection between your browser and our servers will always be encrypted. Just like in online banking.
HTTPS is especially helpful when you access mite over an unsecured Internet connection like a public wi-fi network. There are no disadvantages to HTTPS for you. Therefore, HTTPS is always activated.
Besides switching to HTTPS-only, we launched some more updates to improve the security of mite. For example, if you forgot your password, mite will now e-mail you a link to change your password yourself. We introduced the same process to inviting new team members to your account. Several updates in the background accompany these changes, e.g. stronger algorithms for password encryption.
While we work hard to secure your data, you can help, too. The best point to start is to choose a secure password which you only use in mite. A secure password cannot be found in a dictionary. It consists of at least eight characters, and it mixes letters, numbers, and special characters.
API developers, listen up please!
We will switch our API to HTTPS-only, too. If you do not access the API via HTTPS yet, please update your code. Starting March 30th, the mite.api won’t accept HTTP requests anymore. Hopefully, five weeks will be more than enough time to change your code unhurriedly. Please support this update and help make mite more secure!
January 20
Scheduled Maintenance
Monday, January 23th, mite won’t be available between 0:15 am and ~0:45 am CET (what time is that for me?). We’ll move the service to new, more powerful servers. We ask for your understanding.
Update, January 23th: Maintenance went as planned.
December 18, 2011
High five!
Merci. For this meanwhile five-year trip with amazing users and fellow travelers. To you, wholeheartedly.
(YouTube: Danse)
December 09, 2011
Smarter charts
The bar charts on your dashboards, project reports, and shared reports just leveled up! Now, they’re not only able to display all hours or revenues, but also detailed information on services, projects, customers, or team members.
On your dashboard, hover your mouse over a section of the snake chart of services, projects, or customers. The bar chart will highlight those hours or revenues then. On project reports or shared reports, the bar chart behaves likewise: Hover your mouse over a row of a service or team member to see those hours highlighted in the bar chart.
Hopefully, this small update will help you to understand and analyze your time entries more in-depth!
November 10, 2011
New! Hourly rates per customer, project, or service
They’ve arrived! After hundreds of user suggestions and amazing input during concept phase, they finally launched today: more flexible hourly rates in mite.
You can now specify an hourly rate per customer, per project, or per service. Furthermore, the default hourly rate of a service can now be adapted per customer or per project.
Sounds complex? It is—in the background, at least. Nevertheless, we hope that you won’t have to rack your brains. We iterated for months to build the simplest interface possible. You’ll probably have to think it over once—but after that, mite will handle the complexity for you. So let’s get started, let us guide you through the details!
July 16, 2011
Status update: more flexible hourly rates in mite
First of all, we’d love to send a warm thank you to all of you. Your feedback on how to improve hourly rates in mite was super-helpful to us. We never ever could have expected such an amazing support—merci!
In the meantime, we decided on which scenarios to implement, we finalized the concept and wrote the first chunk of code. In the future, you’ll not only be able to specify one hourly rate per service, but also:
- one hourly rate per customer
- one hourly rate per project
- customizable service hourly rates per customer
- customizable service hourly rates per project
June 18, 2011
Meet Anytime, the mite.app for your iPhone
Four months ago, a third-party developer got in touch by e-mail. He asked us to check out the private beta of his iPhone app with full mite.support, Anytime. We did. We gazed. We were amazed. This guy did nothing less than a fully-featured mite for iPhone, out of the blue!
Time tracking, management of customers, projects, and services, as well as detailed reporting, and export features to Dropbox on top. Anytime was a real deal, and got even better during the following months when we were invited to witness the ongoing improvements.
Today, Anytime is finally officially available on the App Store. It’s $4.99. Congrats to the launch, Josef Materi, and thanks for your dedication!