Ten Years, No Venture Money: How WebWork Built Time Tracking for 32,000+ Businesses

In early 2016, Vahagn Sargsyan was running a web development company with clients abroad. Those clients wanted proof of the hours they paid for, and none of the time trackers his team tried gave it to them in a form they trusted. So he built one himself.

Ten years later, WebWork Time Tracker is used by 32,000+ businesses in 165 countries, and it still has no outside investors. Its September 2026 releases show how far it has moved from that first job. WebWork now imports employees, departments and approved time off from HR Cloud, and it runs a two-way sync with Azure DevOps that writes tracked hours back to each work item. A tool built to prove one agency's hours now sits inside the systems other companies already run on.

A side project with one user

WebWork began as a side project. Vahagn wrote the first version alone, both the application and its interface, and tested it on his own team. When it worked there, a team of four took it over and released a free MVP the same year.

Releasing early was deliberate. The team wanted to see how people used the tracker on real workdays before deciding what to add. Screenshots came first, because proof of work was the original problem. App and website usage, activity levels and project management followed over the next three years.

Ten years without outside money

WebWork has never raised venture capital. Every dollar it has spent came from customers.

That choice cost speed. A funded competitor could hire faster and spend more on marketing. It also meant the product answered to one group: the teams paying for it each month. There was no investor timeline to meet and no exit to plan around.

The pricing reflects that history. At $3.99 per user per month, a self-funded company can only grow through volume and customers who stay for years. It cannot buy growth with a large round and raise prices later.

Growth came with remote work. From 2020, as more companies managed people they could not see in person, WebWork grew from a time tracker into a workforce and productivity platform. In 2022 the company incorporated in the United States. The desktop tracker changed underneath it as well: it started on JavaFX, moved to Electron, and has run on C++ since 2022.

One system for the working day

Time tracking, timesheets and approvals sit in the same system as screenshots, attendance, projects and tasks. Screenshots can be on, off or blurred, depending on what a company needs to see. Invoicing and payroll run from the same tracked hours, so the record of time worked and the record of pay owed come from one source.

For a small team, that is a convenience. For a large one, it removes the monthly job of reconciling two files kept by two different people.

Built for every kind of computer

The desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux is the core of the tracker. It runs visibly, or silently on company-owned devices, and records screenshots, app and website usage and activity levels. The iOS and Android apps add GPS and geofencing for staff who work away from a desk.

Some computers cannot take a desktop install. Chromebooks and shared workstations are common in call centers, schools and retail. For those, WebWork offers two lighter tools that record time only, with no screenshots or activity tracking: a web time tracker that runs in any browser, and a Chrome time tracking extension. Both feed the same timesheets as the desktop app, so a manager reads one record wherever the hours were tracked.

Inside the tools teams already use

The September releases follow a pattern that runs through WebWork's recent work. The HR Cloud integration brings employees in with their structure intact: departments become teams, job positions become titles, and approved time off syncs every hour, so a report shows an approved absence where it would otherwise show missing hours. The Azure DevOps sync works in both directions. Work items arrive in WebWork with their states, and tracked time goes back to each item's Completed Work field.

Earlier in 2026 the same approach reached Salesforce, where client accounts become projects and deals and tickets become tasks, and Microsoft Teams, where WebWork sits inside the team chat. The planning stays in the tools a company already chose. WebWork adds the hours.

AI that handles the routine

WebWork AI launched on February 24, 2025. It reads tracked activity to flag overload and burnout risk, writes standups, and creates tasks and projects from a chat message. During 2026 it learned to fill in empty time entries, draft task descriptions with subtasks and time estimates, and run reviews on a schedule.

In July 2026, WebWork released an MCP connector. AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can now list projects, start timers or approve timesheets on request, within the permissions of the person asking. A manager can get last week's hours from the assistant they already use, without opening the dashboard.

Ten years on

WebWork adds 35,000+ new sign-ups a month and has tracked 125M+ hours of work. Plans start at $3.99 per user per month, with a 14-day free trial. Forbes, G2, Capterra and GetApp have each named it among the leading tools in its category, and its YouTube channel has passed 100,000 subscribers.

The first version existed because a few clients abroad wanted to see the hours they were paying for. Ten years later, with no investor on the cap table, 32,000+ businesses use the same tool to see theirs.