Yast.com was officially shut down in May 2019. The founders decided to discontinue the service and redirected their focus to new technology ventures. The platform stopped operating, and users were informed in advance to export their data before closure. Start your free trial »
Yast.com was a web-based time tracking service designed for freelancers, small teams, and distributed companies that needed a lightweight way to measure work hours without enterprise overhead. The core idea was simplicity: start a timer, assign the time to a project, generate clean reports, and move on with your day. No bloated dashboards, no complicated onboarding rituals.
The platform allowed users to track billable and non-billable hours, organize work by projects and clients, and export structured reports for invoicing or internal accounting. It supported team collaboration, enabling managers to review logged time across members while preserving individual workflow flexibility. Yast positioned itself between spreadsheet chaos and heavyweight corporate time-management systems.
Its value proposition was clarity and discipline. By making time visible, it helped freelancers bill accurately and helped teams understand where effort was actually spent. The interface focused on speed and usability, appealing to early remote workers long before “remote-first” became mainstream language.
At its peak, Yast tracked millions of work hours globally and built a loyal niche user base. It was part of a generation of focused SaaS tools that solved one problem well rather than trying to become an all-in-one business operating system.
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