Build a Time Tracking App for Startups
Track hours by project and teammate, add logins and roles, and see where the team's time goes. Built with Kleap. Free to start.
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A working app, not a template
What it is
A time-tracking app for startups is a web tool where a small team logs where hours go across product, growth and operations so the company can allocate scarce time, support R&D capitalization, or bill early customers. On Kleap it's a website on your own database, with logins and roles, where each teammate records hours against an initiative and category.
What your startups time tracking tracks
Every field below is one you can add, rename, or remove by chatting with Kleap — a starting point tuned for startups.
Team member
In a tiny team, knowing exactly who spent time where is how founders manage their scarcest resource, people-hours.
Initiative or OKR
Startups run against quarterly goals, so tagging hours to an initiative shows whether effort matches stated priorities.
Project
Work spans building the product, chasing growth and keeping the lights on, and project tagging keeps those separable.
Task
A short task label gives a founder visibility into work without needing a standup for every detail.
Date
Sprint and month boundaries drive planning, so accurate dates let you review where a week actually went.
Hours
The unit that turns 'we're busy' into a real picture of how the team's limited capacity is being spent.
Category
Splitting hours into product, growth and ops shows if the team is drifting off core building into overhead.
Billable flag
Startups doing early services or design-partner work need to separate that billable time from product investment.
R&D or capex flag
Marking qualifying engineering hours supports R&D tax credits and capitalization conversations with accountants and investors.
What good looks like for startups
One app, a view for everyone
Founder
Whether the team's hours match this quarter's priorities
Engineering lead
The split of build time versus firefighting and meetings
Finance or ops
R&D-eligible hours and any billable early-customer time
Buy a tool, or own one built for you
Off-the-shelf software makes you fit its mold. With Kleap you describe the time tracking you actually want and own it outright.
A typical time tracking
- Monthly per-seat fees that grow with your team
- Your data lives on their servers, in their format
- Fixed features — you adapt to the tool, not the reverse
- Generic, not shaped around startups
Built with Kleap
- Free to start — no per-seat pricing
- You own the app and its database, data stays yours
- Change anything by chatting — fields, views, workflow
- Shaped around how startups actually works
Build it in 3 steps
Describe it
Tell Kleap what your startups needs, in plain words.
AI builds it
Get a real working app with records, forms, and a dashboard.
Publish
Refine it in chat, then publish. It is a live app you own.
Frequently asked questions
Does it automatically track what everyone is working on, like a productivity monitor?+
No. Kleap builds a web app where each teammate enters their own hours against an initiative, using a form or a simple start/stop. It doesn't monitor screens, capture activity or auto-detect tasks, so it's a lightweight self-reporting tool, not surveillance the small team would resent.
Can it help capture R&D hours for a tax credit?+
It can record them, not file them. Each entry has an R&D or capex flag, so engineers can mark qualifying work as they log it, and the dashboard totals those hours. You'd hand that summary to your accountant, since Kleap doesn't calculate or submit the credit itself.
Does it connect to our project management or payroll tools?+
No. Kleap runs on its own database and doesn't sync with project tools, payroll or accounting software. You get the hours by initiative and category inside the app, and you export or copy those figures into whatever other systems the startup uses.
Is there an app my team can install, or is it web-only?+
It's web-only, with no native iOS or Android app in the app stores. Kleap builds a responsive website, so the team logs time in the browser on laptop or phone, which keeps setup to zero for a fast-moving startup.
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Ready to build it?
Describe your startups time tracking and watch it come to life. Free to start, no code.