Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

#1

Post by martijndeh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 9:54 AM UTC

Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE
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Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by gchp » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:01 AM UTC

Personally, I'd love to see this working without having to send data to the Koala servers. My job has some strict policies on what data can be send to third party servers and I'm not sure how this relates to project/client names/details. I imagine others are in the same boat.

I believe it would be relatively simple to calculate time locally and then display the totals in some custom Atom buffers.

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by martijndeh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:05 AM UTC

gchp wrote: post #2

Personally, I'd love to see this working without having to send data to the Koala servers. My job has some strict policies on what data can be send to third party servers and I'm not sure how this relates to project/client names/details. I imagine others are in the same boat. I believe it would be relatively simple to calculate time locally and then display the totals in some custom Atom buffers.

Dev here.

You can actually configure a .koala file in the root of your project to define what to send to Koala.

Nevertheless, I see your point. I'm thinking of going open source and releasing a community edition so you can set-up a hosted version. Would that be interesting for you?

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by 97-109-107 » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:09 AM UTC

Some website quirks I noticed:

- When I go to pledge/api docs I see previously hidden navbar links 'events', 'reports'

- If I enter the 'events' section, it asks me to sign in and the browser history back action stops working.

I'm really impressed by the pledge you're making there, it's a very amicable touch.

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by gchp » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:11 AM UTC

martijndeh wrote: post #3

gchp wrote: post #2

Personally, I'd love to see this working without having to send data to the Koala servers. My job has some strict policies on what data can be send to third party servers and I'm not sure how this relates to project/client names/details. I imagine others are in the same boat. I believe it would be relatively simple to calculate time locally and then display the totals in some custom Atom buffers.

Dev here. You can actually configure a .koala file in the root of your project to define what to send to Koala. Nevertheless, I see your point. I'm thinking of going open source and releasing a community edition so you can set-up a hosted version. Would that be interesting for you?

Thanks for the response!

Sweet, I didn't realise that. A self-hosted version would be cool. For my own projects I don't mind sending data, just for corporate work its more difficult. Having something I could run on my own machine and periodically get reports from without having to manually enter time constantly would be really handy.

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by martijndeh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:21 AM UTC

97-109-107 wrote: post #4

Some website quirks I noticed: - When I go to pledge/api docs I see previously hidden navbar links 'events', 'reports' - If I enter the 'events' section, it asks me to sign in and the browser history back action stops working. I'm really impressed by the pledge you're making there, it's a very amicable touch.

Thanks for reporting the quirks. Too bad I missed them.

Regarding the pledge: it's actually something I've been seeing at more startups. I can't recall which one but I should put up a link to them.

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by martijndeh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 11:23 AM UTC

gchp wrote: post #5

martijndeh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dev here. You can actually configure a .koala file in the root of your project to define what to send to Koala. Nevertheless, I see your point. I'm thinking of going open source and releasing a community edition so you can set-up a hosted version. Would that be interesting for you?

Thanks for the response! Sweet, I didn't realise that. A self-hosted version would be cool. For my own projects I don't mind sending data, just for corporate work its more difficult. Having something I could run on my own machine and periodically get reports from without having to manually enter time constantly would be really handy.

No problem, thanks for checking Koala out. :)

I'll send you a ping once the self-hosted version is available. In the mean time feel free to send any feedback to martijn@getkoala.co. :)

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by wingerlang » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 1:03 PM UTC

> We invented a /new/ time tracking system..

Having had a very quick browse on the page. This looks like wakatime.com.

I've been using that one for a couple of months with zero problems, it gives me an very detailed overview of what I worked on (down to filename, h:m:s editing, git branch name etc) and it gives me daily and weekly summaries.

Is there a reason for me to change to koala?

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

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Post by martijndeh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #8

> We invented a /new/ time tracking system.. Having had a very quick browse on the page. This looks like wakatime.com. I've been using that one for a couple of months with zero problems, it gives me an very detailed overview of what I worked on (down to filename, h:m:s editing, git branch name etc) and it gives me daily and weekly summaries. Is there a reason for me to change to koala?

Yes, this is true. I only discovered wakatime a few days ago. The major difference at the moment is wakatime's free plan only includes 1 week of data retention, whereas Koala's plan includes indefinite data retention.

Re: Show HN: Perfect time tracking for developers right in your IDE

#10

Post by wingerlang » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:17 AM UTC

martijndeh wrote: post #9

wingerlang wrote: post #8

> We invented a /new/ time tracking system.. Having had a very quick browse on the page. This looks like wakatime.com. I've been using that one for a couple of months with zero problems, it gives me an very detailed overview of what I worked on (down to filename, h:m:s editing, git branch name etc) and it gives me daily and weekly summaries. Is there a reason for me to change to koala?

Yes, this is true. I only discovered wakatime a few days ago. The major difference at the moment is wakatime's free plan only includes 1 week of data retention, whereas Koala's plan includes indefinite data retention.

I see. So how are you monetising? I've considered becoming a subscriber to wakatime purely to help them keep it running. I've just never needed to have my exact data from a long time ago, their daily/weekly summaries is good enough.