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Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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Some feedback: * Make the price more readily apparent on the landing page * Tracking the '6,400 sites, apps and games' is great, but it would be good if I could find out if the ones I care about in that list! * Make the above the fold screenshot bigger, I tried squinting/zooming before I realised I could scroll down * Can I determine which things are productive/neutral/distractive? As I wouldn't want to buy it if tha…

Thank you, I fixed the price.

> Tracking the '6,400 sites, apps and games' is great, but it would be good if I could find out if the ones I care about in that list!

Mostly the ones from top 10k Alexa but all the unrecognized can be categorized easily.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

#37
This is a cool project. I thought about building something similar a few years ago when I was doing a lot of consulting. The most annoying part of the work was accurately billing clients when some days I'd switch between several projects.

Here's a few things that could make it super useful:

* Track time spent writing email by contact * Track hangout/skype/etc by contact * Track time spent on code per project * Connect phone records to tie in the time on the phone with contacts

Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

#38
This is the new RescueTime! Now you just need to market it to all of RescueTime's users:

https://twitter.com/rescuetime/followers

Small nitpick: How can you guarantee data is kept locally without open-sourcing the app?

This is similar to WakaTime but only for OS X and not as granular data, because one is for programmers and the other more general users.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

#39
post #34

So was this developed using Swift? Curious, I see SQLite backend.

It was started before Swift become more or less mature, so the whole codebase is in Objective-C.

Sounds like no plans for Windows platform? (I'm a multiple platform user.)

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

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