Karobar Management
Employee management and time-tracking SaaS for studios and distributed teams. The HubStaff alternative, built by a founder who actually runs a remote team on it.
What it is
Karobar Management is a SaaS platform for agencies, studios, and remote teams. Track time, manage projects, see who's doing what, without the surveillance-heavy feel of legacy tools. Built around how a real distributed team actually operates, not how a productivity-software vendor thinks one should.
14-day free trial, then $5 per user per month. Live since the closed-beta launch in February 2023, and running the entire Karobar Solutions team every day since.
Features
Run your studio without the chaos.
Time tracking, project budgets, and team visibility, in one place, for distributed teams.
Time tracking
Manual or automatic tracking via the desktop app. See where your team's time is actually going. Real data for real decisions.
Project management
Organize work by project. Set budgets. Track billable vs non-billable hours. Invoice with confidence.
Team visibility
See your team's schedule at a glance. Who's available? Who's overloaded? Make smarter assignments.
Reporting
Detailed reports by team member, project, or client. Export for invoicing. Benchmarking and insights built in.
How we built it
The web app runs on Nextacular (a Next.js + Prisma multi-tenant SaaS framework) at app.karobarmanagement.com. The desktop time-tracking client is built on Nextron (Electron + Next.js) and ships from links.karobarhq.com. Two surfaces, one shared backend, one consistent data model across web and desktop.
Co-founded by Asad Ur Rehman (CEO) with Talha Qureshi as COO leading design and brand, and Osama Ehsan as CTO leading web and desktop engineering. Three-way decisions on every product call. No shipping a feature unless all three founders sign off.
Karobar runs the entire Karobar Solutions team. We eat our own dog food, and have been since the closed-beta launch in February 2023. We use it to track time, manage projects, and run our distributed team every day. It's not just a product we built, it's the product we rely on.
Ready to run your team on Karobar?
14-day free trial, then $5 per user per month. No credit card to start.