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TMetric time tracking for teams, $25K a month, self-reported

TMetric is software for tracking work hours and managing projects, billing, invoicing, payroll, reporting, and teams. Its $25K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

TMetric sells automated time tracking, project management, billing, invoicing, payroll, reporting, and team management software. It is built for agencies, consultancies, client-facing teams, and service businesses that need to track, bill, and report every hour of work.

TMetric logs billable hours automatically, generates invoices from tracked time, and applies billing rates automatically. It supports project profitability analysis, payroll-ready records, time-off management, attendance data, cost rates, timesheets, budgets, and team availability.

How it charges

The pages we read do not state a price. TMetric’s product page describes billing rates and automatic invoice generation, but no currency amounts appear on the pages we read.

Where customers come from

TMetric’s site lists more than 50 integrations with popular services. Its help center provides detailed manuals and helpful tutorials. The site says TMetric is trusted by over 10 000 companies worldwide and backed by 3,000+ customer reviews.

What stands out

TMetric launched in 2016 as an internal productivity tool for the company. Its site says 40 000 customers worldwide chose it as their productivity booster in 2017, and it now presents itself as trusted by over 10 000 companies worldwide.

From the official site

It is built for agencies, consultancies, and client-facing teams that need to reduce revenue leakage and ensure every hour of work is properly tracked, billed, and reported.
Generate accurate client invoices directly from tracked hours. Billing rates applied automatically - zero errors, zero extra steps.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

TMetric's $25K a month is higher than 76% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

In my view, the buyer is an agency, consultancy, client-facing team, or service business that needs to connect time records with billing and payroll. Distribution would come from search for time tracking, project profitability, invoicing, and payroll workflows, plus integrations with services teams already use.

Building this would require reliable time capture, billing rules, invoice generation, payroll-ready records, permissions, reporting, integrations, and customer support. The main difficulty is maintaining accuracy across work-hour data, attendance data, cost rates, billable rates, budgets, and leave records.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

My view is that TMetric’s product shape connects time tracking with billing, payroll, project profitability, and team management. That gives a founder a specific product pattern to study: start with a work record, then connect the workflows that depend on it.

Sources

  1. TMetric official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. TMetric pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
  3. TMetric about page, fetched October 1, 2026
  4. Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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