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Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by overshard »

blauditore wrote: post #55

Kinda off-topic, but the screenshots were (probably) made on Windows 10 while you write that Ubuntu is your primary OS. Do you use Windows for work/coding and Ubuntu for other stuff? Because I do it more or less the other way around.

I'm using a variety of operating systems at the moment. My primary OS is Ubuntu, I happen to be on my home desktop which is used for gaming at the time of these screenshots. (Ubuntu gaming is still mediocre.) I use OS X at my office quite a bit but my primary laptop that I use at home and work is 100% Ubuntu.

I'm fairly OS agnostic and sync all my systems very well and use whatever I'm sitting at.

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by r3bl »

Ah, what I really miss about time tracking software isn't necessarily something where I manually type in what I've been working on, as much as it's something like a self-hosted RescueTime[0].

Instead of manually adding things to it, it allows you to mark certain applications and websites as you doing something productive (for example, if you're running Atom and visiting StackOverflow and GitHub, you're probably doing something productive) and then tracks that via its clients and shows you a nice overview of how much of your time is actually spent on doing something productive.

Now, of course, the fact that RescueTime is centralized and hasn't released the source code of its clients makes me instantly dismiss it as a software I would use, but I would love to find a certain self-hosted solution that does pretty much exactly what RescueTime does.

[0] https://www.rescuetime.com/

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by stefek99 »

overshard wrote: post #12

Hello HN, developer here. I started this Friday night because I wanted something much simpler than all the options I was given and something that I could host myself. There is a lot to do on this project still and I wanted to see what the reception was for the start. Timestrap currently does fully support time tracking and CSV exports for multiple projects and tasks. It has a full REST API and admin panel. Invoicing…

Nice.

https://github.com/overshard/timestrap/commit/d2217d772bd901...

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Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by Sir_Substance »

overshard wrote: post #32
Sir_Substance wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I've just deployed it to my little self-hosted stack, I look forward to taking it for a spin this week. Initial thoughts are that it's easy to deploy, but you need to be more explicit in the doc about what people need to do to create the admin account. People who aren't at least passingly familiar with django will get lost at this step. The minimalism is great, and the UX seems pretty smooth. I intuitively expec…

I'm adding additional documentation for creating an initial user now! I agree with the packaging all JS files comment, for a truly self-hosted solution one should have this option and I plan on doing this for 1.0. Since we use django-compressor it will compress everything down to a single JS file too. Right now for the alpha phase I'm rapidly adding and removing JS libraries so I didn't want to bother with this.

That makes total sense, I look forward to 1.0!

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by SyneRyder »

r3bl wrote: post #62

Ah, what I really miss about time tracking software isn't necessarily something where I manually type in what I've been working on, as much as it's something like a self-hosted RescueTime[0]. Instead of manually adding things to it, it allows you to mark certain applications and websites as you doing something productive (for example, if you're running Atom and visiting StackOverflow and GitHub, you're probably doing…

If you're on the Mac, Timing might be similar to what you're looking for (one of their selling points is that your data is stored locally and never leaves your Mac):

http://timingapp.com/

And on Windows, Mac & Linux, it looks like ManicTime will also store data locally if you don't use the Server component:

http://www.manictime.com/

Re: Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

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Post by ivm »

r3bl wrote: post #62

Ah, what I really miss about time tracking software isn't necessarily something where I manually type in what I've been working on, as much as it's something like a self-hosted RescueTime[0]. Instead of manually adding things to it, it allows you to mark certain applications and websites as you doing something productive (for example, if you're running Atom and visiting StackOverflow and GitHub, you're probably doing…

Qbserve (our app) is an "offline" RescueTime alternative for Mac: https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/

It automatically tracks productivity for sites, apps, and even Slack teams, showing your productivity score in real time in the menu bar.

We are also working right now on an update that will add automatic project tracking and invoice generation.

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