How hours are counted

Crescent pays for time tracked with Hackatime on the Hackatime projects you link to a Crescent project. Nothing else counts: not estimates, not commits, not screenshots.

Linking

Open your project’s edit page and tick the Hackatime projects that belong to it. One Hackatime project can belong to one Crescent project only, so time is never counted twice. The total on the project page updates within a minute.

Projects you started before Crescent

All the time tracked on a linked Hackatime project counts, including time from before the program began. Reviewers see when the Crescent project was created and set the earlier time aside by hand, so a project that already exists is welcome as long as its Hackatime time is real.

Ships and the watermark

When a ship is approved, the hours it covered are paid and the project’s watermark moves up to what Hackatime had tracked at that ship. The next ship pays only the new hours above the watermark. If a reviewer approves fewer hours than tracked, the watermark still moves to the tracked total, so hours a reviewer did not accept are not carried into the next ship.

Art and other assets

Art, music, video and other created assets are welcome, but they count for at most a quarter of the hours a ship is awarded. The rest of the time has to show in the project itself: the code, the writing, the parts that make it work.

Trust

Hackatime keeps its own trust level for every account. Suspicious patterns (robotic heartbeats, impossible hours) are flagged for a human to look at; detection is never a verdict on its own.