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Productboard vs My Hours
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Productboard and My Hours — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Productboard vs My Hours: at a glance
What is Productboard?
Productboard's v2 API is growing toward a full programmatic data surface.
The last several months of Productboard developer changes are incremental v2 API expansion: team filters, tag field search, metadata source filters, fulltext note search, and custom field presence checks. The v2 API is closing parity with v1 while adding capabilities the old API lacked. A beta customer score endpoint — aggregating weighted customer importance across the product hierarchy — is the one genuinely new capability in this period.
What is My Hours?
My Hours launches a Claude MCP connector, making AI-driven time logging a first-class workflow
My Hours is a time tracking platform with a strong invoicing and reporting core, now shipping in two distinct directions: an AI integration layer (Claude MCP connector, Sep 3) and expanded compliance-friendly tracking features (break tracking with payroll calculations, attendance reports, budget alerts). The September releases represent the most capability-dense period in the window, following a patch-heavy summer. The MCP connector runs on Keboola's Cloudflare infrastructure — zero install, OAuth-only.
Productboard vs My Hours: editorial side-by-side
Productboard's v2 API is growing toward a full programmatic data surface.
◆ Current state
The last several months of Productboard developer changes are incremental v2 API expansion: team filters, tag field search, metadata source filters, fulltext note search, and custom field presence checks. The v2 API is closing parity with v1 while adding capabilities the old API lacked. A beta customer score endpoint — aggregating weighted customer importance across the product hierarchy — is the one genuinely new capability in this period.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is steady API buildout, not product pivots. Each changelog entry adds one query parameter or endpoint. The customer score beta, if it graduates and expands, would make Productboard's prioritization signals programmatically accessible to external BI tools and dashboards — that's the most meaningful shift in this period. The v2 API is becoming the integration layer that makes Productboard data portable.
◆ Prediction
Customer score coming out of beta and expanding to more entity types, followed by write-side endpoints for prioritization data. CRM source metadata will likely become more central as Productboard deepens bidirectional integrations with Salesforce and HubSpot.
My Hours
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My Hours launches a Claude MCP connector, making AI-driven time logging a first-class workflow
◆ Current state
My Hours is a time tracking platform with a strong invoicing and reporting core, now shipping in two distinct directions: an AI integration layer (Claude MCP connector, Sep 3) and expanded compliance-friendly tracking features (break tracking with payroll calculations, attendance reports, budget alerts). The September releases represent the most capability-dense period in the window, following a patch-heavy summer. The MCP connector runs on Keboola's Cloudflare infrastructure — zero install, OAuth-only.
◆ Where it's heading
The Claude MCP connector signals a clear strategic bet: My Hours wants to be the time tracking tool you interact with through AI conversation rather than through a timer UI. The infrastructure choice (remote server on Cloudflare, not a local install) removes adoption friction, making it viable for teams already using Claude. Parallel development on attendance reports and break tracking points toward a compliance and HR use case — overtime tracking, payroll-ready break records — that broadens My Hours beyond professional services billing.
◆ Prediction
The MCP integration will expand to cover write operations beyond time logging — budget tracking, invoice creation, and report export are the most obvious additions. The attendance report launched in August suggests a near-term push toward HR and payroll integrations, potentially positioning My Hours against more compliance-focused tools like Harvest or Timely for regulated industries.
Alternatives to Productboard and My Hours
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Productboard or My Hours.
NocoBase
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RentRedi
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Camunda
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Asana
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Rize
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Recent activity from Productboard and My Hours
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6d agoMy HoursBreaks, simpler clocking & bulk edit for Basic (9.10.0)
- 7d agoProductboardv2 - 2026-09-09 - Search tag field values
- 13d agoMy HoursMy Hours MCP for Claude ⚡
- 15d agoMy HoursTask budget alerts, invoice references & Jira sync (9.9.0)
- 27d agoMy HoursAttendance report, budget tracking & invoice links (9.8.0)
- 1mo agoMy HoursBug fixes (9.6.1)
- 1mo agoMy HoursCustom field filters, view settings & invoicing improvements (9.6.0)
- 1mo agoProductboardv2 - 2026-07-20 - Customer score for entities (Beta)
- 2mo agoProductboardv2 - 2026-07-02 - Fulltext search for notes
- 2mo agoProductboardv2 - 2026-06-29 - Company source metadata available
- 3mo agoProductboardv2 - 2026-06-18 - Custom field presence filter
- 3mo agoProductboardv2 - 2026-06-15 - Filter entities by team
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Productboard and My Hours?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. My Hours is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Productboard better than My Hours?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. My Hours is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Productboard?
Top Productboard alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Productboard alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/productboard for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to My Hours?
Top My Hours alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "My Hours alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/myhours for the full list with editorial commentary on each.