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Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by herewulf »

jerryliu12 wrote: post #23
zeroq wrote: post #17

On one hand I'm super enthusiastic about your project. This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product. But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their time…

Yea, honestly I would hate if people used this to track _other_ people, especially bosses. I wanted to build something that gave people more agency to do more with their precious time, but there definitely is a fine line here.

Probably someone long ago said the same about hope for pointy sticks not being used just for hunting animals. Yet someone will likely make a pointy stick whether you do it or not.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by zeroq »

herewulf wrote: post #31
jerryliu12 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, honestly I would hate if people used this to track _other_ people, especially bosses. I wanted to build something that gave people more agency to do more with their precious time, but there definitely is a fine line here.

Probably someone long ago said the same about hope for pointy sticks not being used just for hunting animals. Yet someone will likely make a pointy stick whether you do it or not.

oppenheimer said that about dynamite /s

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by defgeneric »

zeroq wrote: post #17

On one hand I'm super enthusiastic about your project. This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product. But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their time…

This was my first thought too. The last generation of activity tracking, while still dystopian, was a little different at least in that it was mainly statistical. So action-wise, it might point managers at "potential problems," but doesn't make its way into a performance review (e.g. "your mouse only traveled 81.72 screen-miles this quarter, 2 standard deviations below the mean, while you also scored the lowest on number of keystrokes with vscode as the active window..."). If a manager really wanted to summarize exactly what was done they had to spend an almost equal amount of time to watch. To some degree, this alleviates that.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by xp84 »

Very cool idea. When using the Gemini option, what kind of cost would be expected to be incurred? I'd be satisfied by knowing the approximate number of tokens one would expect to be consumed by processing an hour of these recordings, and which specific model is being used.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jerryliu12 »

xp84 wrote: post #35

Very cool idea. When using the Gemini option, what kind of cost would be expected to be incurred? I'd be satisfied by knowing the approximate number of tokens one would expect to be consumed by processing an hour of these recordings, and which specific model is being used.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is pretty expensive, mostly because videos take up a lot of tokens. It's roughly 1 million input tokens/hr, with a relatively insignificant amount of output tokens. Fortunately, Gemini has a very generous free tier, which is more than enough to cover daily usage. If you set up one paid project (and just don't consume any tokens), you can still use the free tier on a different project, and they can't train on your data.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jerryliu12 »

mellosouls wrote: post #34

Congrats on a nice looking app that will be very useful for individuals (though potentially misused by toxic managers). Kudos particularly for the efforts you've gone to on explaining privacy implications.

Thanks! Wanted to build something I'd personally be comfortable using.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by tmychow »

Woah this is fab; much less cognitive load than manually using a time tracker. And I'm glad that there's a local option and a "BYO key" option for privacy!

Feel like something of this shape should have existed for a while, but this is very well executed!

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