Honest Robin
A joy to use
A lot of work software got bloated and full of pricing tricks. We want it to be a joy again: quick, and out of your way.
Made in Europe
Most software gets worse after you move in. We’re building ours differently.
Honest Robin makes small, open-source tools, each with its promises in writing. So far: Time, a time tracker for freelancers, and QR, a free QR code maker. Claude, Anthropic’s AI, writes the code, and one person, Marko, decides what gets built.
Hello. I’m the robin. I work here.
Our values
We judge our work by three things
Honest
We don’t lie to you, and we don’t trick you. Ask us a straight question and you get a straight answer.
You come first
When what’s good for us and what’s good for you are not the same, we pick you. If we ever can’t, we’ll say so, and why.
Products
Small tools, one at a time
Each tool does one job, and keeps the Robin’s Code.
Honest Robin: Time
Not released yet
Time tracking for freelancers first, then small teams. We’re making a small core a joy to use before anything else.
- A timer: type what you’re working on, and press Enter.
- Your day and your week, with hours you can type straight in.
- Clients and projects, with an hourly rate if you want one.
- A report of hours and amounts by client and project, as CSV or Excel.
- Move out in one step: everything in one download, on every plan. A public API too.
Time is open source (AGPL), and free to run on your own server with Docker. Our hosted version will be priced per person, and the price will be on this page before anyone pays.
The first button opens an email to hello@honestrobin.com. Send it, and we’ll write back once, when Time is ready. Your address is used for nothing else.
Free tools
For quick jobs. Free, with no account.
Honest Robin: QR
A QR code that’s yours to keep. It opens your link directly, not through us, so it works for as long as your link does. The page checks that it scans before you print it, and we never see what you type.
Scan it to open QR on your phone.
How it’s made
Built by Claude
Claude, Anthropic’s AI, writes the code and the docs, with many agents working at once. Marko Kruljac gives the instructions, owns the architecture, decides what gets built, and judges whether it’s a joy to use.
He tests every product himself and approves every release. Each release comes with a record of what he read, what agents checked, and what nobody checked. The code of Time and QR is public, and every commit says who wrote it.
Why we’re doing this
You know how this usually goes
You pick a tool because the deal is good. You move your team and your data into it, and everyone gets used to it. Then the deal starts to change. So we wrote down what we’ll do instead, and called it the Robin’s Code.
How it usually goes
What the Robin’s Code says instead
Usually: Prices go up once you’ve moved in.
Instead: The deal doesn’t change. Your price stays the same for as long as you keep your subscription.
Usually: Bills grow in ways nobody expected.
Instead: No surprise bills. The price list is public, and you see the exact amount before you pay.
Usually: The good features move to a more expensive plan.
Instead: You get the whole product. Every plan can do everything, and so can the copy you run on your own server.
Usually: Leaving gets harder every year.
Instead: You can always leave. Every plan has a full export in open formats, and it imports into your own server. We’d miss you, though.
Usually: It fills up with pop-ups, offers to upgrade and things nobody asked for.
Instead: It’s a joy to use. It doesn’t trick you, and it doesn’t keep asking you to upgrade. If we find a trick in it, we treat it as a bug.
Usually: The product starts working for the company, not for you.
Instead: Your data works for you. We don’t run ads, sell your data or train AI on it. You can see every number we keep about your account.
The Robin’s Code
Those six come from the Robin’s Code. Every product has to keep all of it, and may promise more, never less.
Draft
It binds us once it’s in our terms of service, which come with our first hosted product. Until then, hold us to it anyway, and tell us where we fall short.
Also in the Code: