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

by martijndeh • 12 years ago

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gchp2• 12 years ago

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.

martijndeh5• 12 years ago

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?

gchp2• 12 years ago

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.

97-109-107• 12 years ago

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.

martijndeh5• 12 years ago

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.

wingerlang2• 12 years ago

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?

martijndeh5• 12 years ago

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.

wingerlang2• 12 years ago

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.

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