My story
Why Quanta exists
A passion project for our own agency, opened up to everyone.
Harley, Founder of Quanta and Stackfee
Hi, I'm Harley.
I never really planned on building a time tracker.
For the last 10+ years I've been building software professionally. I started out freelancing, then worked with other freelancers and agencies, and eventually started my own software development agency, Stackfee.
Looking back, one thing kept following me around: time tracking.
As a freelancer, I tracked my own time. When I worked with agencies, I used whatever they were using: Harvest, Toggl, TSheets, and plenty of custom systems I'd never heard of before joining a project. Then, after starting Stackfee, I was the one choosing the software for our own team.
I've seen time tracking from pretty much every angle.
Oddly enough, I've also spent a surprising amount of time building time trackers. Over the years, my team and I built custom time tracking systems for clients with their own approval workflows, reporting, payroll, billing, and integrations. Every company had slightly different requirements, but the same core problem.
At the same time, we were still paying for someone else's time tracker. That always felt a little strange.
Don't get me wrong. I think products like Harvest and Toggl are good software. We used them ourselves.
But as our agency grew, I kept asking myself the same question.
Why are we paying $10 to $20 per user every month for something most people spend five minutes a day using, when we already have the experience to build exactly what we need?
No sales team
Nobody calls you, nobody follows up, nobody gets commission. The product is the pitch.
No enterprise tier
Solo or team, both plans get everything. Nothing is held back to upsell you later.
No per-seat math
Your bill does not grow when your team does. That is the whole point.
There wasn't one big moment where I decided to start a SaaS company. It was more of a slow realization.
We build software for a living. We've built time trackers before. We understand our own workflows better than anyone else. Why not build one for ourselves?
That was really how Quanta started.
It began as a passion project for our own agency. I wanted software that fit the way we worked. I wanted to own the product instead of depending on someone else's roadmap. And honestly, I wanted us to have something we could point to and proudly say, “We built that.”
Today, Quanta is one of the products I'm most proud of. Not because it's perfect (it isn't), but because we use it every single day.
When our team finds something frustrating, we fix it. When customers suggest something that makes sense, we build it. There's no product committee deciding whether an idea fits a quarterly roadmap. It's just a team of software engineers building a product we genuinely rely on ourselves.
If you're using Quanta, I'd love your feedback. Whether it's a bug, a feature request, or just something that annoys you, send me a message. There's a good chance it'll end up in the next release.
Thanks for giving Quanta a try.
Harley
Founder of Quanta and Stackfee
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