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Cushion

@cushionapp

Forecasting for freelancers. Built by @destroytoday

 Brooklyn, NY
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Joined March 2014
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✏️ New year, new homepage destroytoday.com/blog/new-ye…
New year, new homepage - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

New year, new homepage - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

I spend my holiday break bringing more fun to the Cushion homepage with a new design, full of illustrations and animations.

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I made another video about @cushionapp progress, but trying out CleanShot and YouTube instead of Loom this time. I walked through a handful of new components, like quantity input, currency input, and line items. Motivation sponsored by @davegaeddert 👍 youtube.com/watch?v=R1ClsCr7…
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👋 There’s going to be a little bit of planned downtime today to upgrade the database. Hopefully you’re not working the weekend, but if you are, it’ll be a good time to take a break and go for a walk. 😊
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Aaaaaaand we’re back. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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👋 There might be a few minutes of downtime tonight or Monday night for a database upgrade. Bear with me if you sign in and there’s a maintenance message. Love ya’ll. 🫶
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Ok! All done—the database upgrade is complete. 😌 Let me know if anyone comes across anything out of the ordinary!
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👋 Cushion’s going to be getting a pretty significant upgrade to its stack shortly, so please let me know if anything seems out of the ordinary. Thaaanks!
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Upgrade complete! So far, so good. 👍
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👋 How do you estimate time for projects?
37%Total hours per project
21%Hours per day until done
16%Other (reply plz 🙏)
26%🍿
43 votes • Final results
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Oh fun! The time I tracked yesterday on @cushionapp has 🍔 vibes.
A timeline from the app Cushion where each segment is sorta the color of different layers of a hamburger.

ALT A timeline from the app Cushion where each segment is sorta the color of different layers of a hamburger.

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Phew. Finally finished estimated workloads in @cushionapp’s new timeline beta. Still a work-in-progress, but damn it feels good to have it out there. …especially proud of the scaling transitions between zoom levels 💅
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Spent *so* much time getting the details right for tooltips on @cushionapp’s new timeline: ✅ clearly highlights hovered date range ✅ colored based on effort or project ✅ smoothly glides to maintain readability ✅ date range based on zoom level ✅ swiping maintains tooltip
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✏️ Total tracked time in the schedule timeline cushionapp.com/journal/total… #buildinpublic
Total tracked time in the schedule timeline - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Total tracked time in the schedule timeline - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Now that Cushion can visualize tracked time, the next step is to combine tracked time and highlight when you overworked yourself.

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✏️ Visualizing tracked time in the schedule timeline #buildinpublic cushionapp.com/journal/visua…

Visualizing tracked time in the schedule timeline - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Straying from the plan to bring the timeline to 1:1 feature parity with the existing timeline, I visualize tracked time.

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✏️ New post: Duplicating an invoice cushionapp.com/journal/dupli…
Duplicating an invoice - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Duplicating an invoice - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

I take a short break from the timeline beta to launch the ability to duplicate an invoice. No big deal.

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Wow! Super impressed that @cushionapp created a new feature based on my feedback right away (the ability to duplicate invoices). Highly recommend this app to any #freelancers who wants a nice one-stop shop for tracking time, managing invoices, and forecasting!
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👋 For those seeing a "502 Error" in the app, our server provider is currently experiencing connectivity issues. You can follow along with status updates here: status.heroku.com/incidents/… Sorry for anyone affected by this! We hope to be back up asap.
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Aaaaaand it looks like everything’s starting to recover. 👍
✏️ One step back, two steps forward #buildinpublic cushionapp.com/journal/one-s…
One step back, two steps forward - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

One step back, two steps forward - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Foreseeing a problematic future with the stacking layout, I rethink the direction and end up down a better path.

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✏️ Journal - Project actions in the Schedule timeline beta: cushionapp.com/journal/proje…

Project actions in the Schedule timeline beta - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

After adding the ability to add and edit projects in the Schedule timeline, I implement more detailed interactions with project actions.

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✏️ New journal post: Creating a project via form in the schedule timeline destroytoday.com/blog/creati… #buildinpublic
Creating a project via form in the schedule timeline - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Creating a project via form in the schedule timeline - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

Back to working on the app, I take the leap into creating projects, but via form first instead of click & drag.

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