Hey Indie Hackers! đWeâre currently building Tracklyâa B2B SaaS platform designed to streamline remote employee tracking, attendance, and t
Hey Indie Hackers! đ
Weâre currently building Tracklyâa B2B SaaS platform designed to streamline remote employee tracking, attendance, and team productivity.
The Problem:
Managing distributed or remote teams often comes with messy spreadsheets, manual check-ins, and inaccurate attendance data. Existing tools are either bloated with unnecessary corporate overhead or lack real-time visibility.
How Trackly Solves It:
Real-time Attendance: Simple check-in/out tracking with live team status updates.
Workforce Insights: Automated reporting on active hours, idle time, and productivity metrics.
Simplified HR Ops: Integrated leave requests, company calendar sync, and payroll support.
Our Current Stage & Goals:
We are actively validating the product with early B2B users and refining our core feature set.
Questions for the IH Community:
What has been your biggest growth channel for acquiring initial B2B SaaS customers?
If you use workforce/attendance tools, what is the single biggest missing feature in existing market solutions?
Would love to hear your feedback, thoughts, or suggestions!
One thing I'd test before adding another feature: what is the first problem you want Trackly to be remembered for?
Right now the product touches attendance, live visibility, productivity, leave, calendars and payroll. Those are all useful, but they create very different reasons for someone to buy.
The interesting validation question might be less âwhat feature is missing?â and more:
âWhat made the first users say, âyes, this is the tool we needâ?â
If that answer keeps pointing to one specific painâsay, knowing whether a distributed team is actually online and availableâI'd make that the front door and let the HR/payroll pieces become supporting features.
B2B buyers can handle a long feature list. They usually don't have the patience to figure out which problem the product is really for.
Thanks for this insightful perspective, @quratulaincreatives! You nailed itâpositioning can easily get blurry when trying to solve multiple pain points at once.
Right now, our primary hook has definitely been real-time visibility and team availability for remote setups, while HR/payroll tools act as secondary retention features. Really appreciate the reminder to keep our 'front door' clear and focused as we validate!
Also, since we're focused on B2B growth, weâve just set up a referral program: if anyone signs up for Trackly through your reference, youâll earn a 20% recurring commission for as long as they stay subscribed. Let me know if you'd like a link to share!
That makes a lot of sense. Real-time visibility and team availability is a much stronger front door because the value is immediately understandable without needing to explain the entire product.
I also like the distinction between the front-door problem and the retention features. The secondary features don't have to disappearâthey just don't need to compete for attention with the primary reason someone should care.
I'd be especially interested in what you hear during validation when you ask users why they would be disappointed if Trackly disappeared. That answer can be even more revealing than a feature request because it tells you what value they've actually internalized.
Good luck with the validationâthis is exactly the kind of positioning I'd keep testing as the user base grows.
I am interested in affiliate program
Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback and insights!
Regarding the affiliate programâweâd love to have you on board! Could you please share your WhatsApp number or email address so I can send over the program details and get you set up?
quratulaincreatives@gmail.com