We have started with Minco in September 2009, about one year before.
Minco was aimed to be a simple time tracker written for myself to track time I have to spend on different tasks for clients.
I did not find any other time tracking software for Mac OS X that was working the way I wanted.
The main functionality was to sync tasks with iCal and to log running work times in realtime to csv files and back to iCal as events, to get a visual overview.
There was no editing or task adding functionality planned, only to completed tasks.
After we have got lot of feedback from user to allow adding and editing tasks, we have extended the functionality during the beta phase. What we were thinking at the beginning was to make Minco work with different online time tracking services, but the user feedback showed us that there was not really the big interest we have expected.
What our user permanently ask for is a similar time tracking iPhone app that will work with Minco seamlessly together. They also ask for work time editing functionality and to get better reporting facilities and integration from iCal events.
So our plans are to complete rewrite Minco to include all this fantastic functionalities we were not thinking on before.
Marc