Product walkthrough · 5 minute read
What is Timerr?
Meet Rasmus.
The fastest way to explain Timerr is to show what it does over a month. So let's follow Rasmus, a photographer in Copenhagen. He thinks he earns 450 kr/hr. By the end of the month he finds out he earns 323 kr/hr.
Rasmus Andersen Photography
Rasmus has run his one-man business for 4 years. Three active clients this month, mixed hourly and fixed-price, like most photographers. When he says his rate is 450 kr/hr, that is the number he thinks he earns.
That is the plan: around 100 hours spread across three invoices. But photographer calendars rarely keep what they promise. Clients ask for an extra series, Jonas asks for extra product photos, and transport, meetings and emails add up.
We follow Rasmus through three telling days during the month: a regular workday, a day that normally disappears, and the day the budget breaks. Then we tally up the whole month.
Monday
He starts the timer. Just like any other day.
No onboarding, no wizard, no guide. Rasmus opens Timerr, picks Jonas Food Co., clicks start. A good Monday begins with 4 hours of retouching product photos. Later in the day he adds a manual entry for editing Anna's wedding photos.
That is Monday. One timer, one manual entry, six hours across two different projects.
Wednesday
The day that usually disappears.
Rasmus drives to a coffee meeting with Jonas about next month's shoots, 1.5 hours behind the wheel and 1 hour at the table. Back home, 45 minutes go into an email thread about Anna's venue, and before he shuts the laptop he also writes a proposal to a potential new client. None of those hours end up on an invoice. Before Timerr they just vanished. Now they are tracked, tagged as non-billable.
Four hours that never make it onto an invoice. The kind of time that usually disappears quietly during a week. Now it is tracked in plain sight.
Thursday
"Could you just..."
Anna writes that she would like a few extra photos from the reception edited. Of course. It takes extra time, but they are lovely people. The problem is, it was a fixed-price project at 40 hours, and Rasmus is already at 40. After Thursday the counter reads 45.
This is what Timerr calls scope creep, and it hits fixed-price projects almost exclusively: on hourly work you invoice the extra time, on fixed-price you work it for free, until someone actually counts.
Friday 4:30 PM
The month at a glance.
Rasmus opens his dashboard for the first time this month. The plan was 100 hours across three invoices. Reality looked different.
Anna asked for a few extra photos edited (+5 hrs). Jonas asked for a couple of extra product sessions along the way (+15 hrs). Transport, meetings, sales and emails totalled 39 hours outside the projects. 160 hours of work in total: 121 billable and 39 non-billable. Here is what it came to in money.
The math behind the number
51,750 kr divided by 160 worked hours is 323 kr/hr. Not 450.
Rasmus has not worked less or worse than usual. He has just, for the first time, done the math on the right number.
Why is it 323 and not 450?
Because the gap is not spread evenly. Some projects carry the month. Others eat it. This is where Timerr stands out from a regular timer.
Jonas Food Co. is the only client who actually pays 450 kr/hr. Anna costs Rasmus 50 kr/hr on every single one of the 45 hours. And the 39 non-billable hours drag the whole average down. Multiply the three together and 450 becomes 323.
So what does he do with it?
The most important thing is not to work more. It is to know what you are working for. With the numbers in front of him, Rasmus can make three concrete decisions before next month:
1. The next wedding price gets adjusted
If weddings systematically take 45 hours and not 40, the price should reflect it. Either he raises it to 20,000 kr, or he sets a clear cap on included revisions.
2. Non-billable time gets a quota
39 hours a month is too much. Rasmus tries time-blocking emails into two fixed windows a day and sees if it can be brought down to 25 hours.
3. Jonas Food Co. gets more room
They are the cleanest business. 450 kr/hr on every hour, no scope creep. If he can take a few more hours with them next month, it lifts the whole average.
That is what Timerr is.
Not just a timer. A mirror.
You log your time the way you would anyway. Timerr keeps track of what you cannot see yourself: where billable hours turn non-billable, where fixed-price deals drift off budget, and what your work actually pays.
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