WakaTime – Dashboards for Developers

A few years ago, about 5-6 years ago now actually, I wrote a time tracking utility that I used for a while. The main challenge with using that one is the amount of time and effort it took to keep track of what I was spending time on, because I was tracking the time of everything I was doing.

I replaced my web app for time tracking with a Google Sheet that I tracked time in for a couple of years, and limited myself to only tracking time that I was working that I billed others for. And stopped tracking time of personal things that is not billed to anyone.

Last summer I took another shot at implementing my own time tracker, this time as a native iOS application and still, like the Google Sheet, being specifically for billable hours of work.

Already before I wrote the first time tracker I was thinking about how it would be nice to actually automatically report on which applications you are using, when you are tracking time spent on the computer specifically.

The idea of using plugins into the IDE and into the web browser like WakaTime is doing here is a genius idea and I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. That’s how you know it’s a good idea - when someone thought of something you didn’t, and as soon as they say it it seems “obvious”.

I have some ideas for how I can integrate these WakaTime plugins into my own stuff.

This is super cool, thanks for posting this link OP.