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KYou, a new open source solution to know yourself better

frankrousseau.github.io

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I'm a fan of quantified self, but I'm not comfortable sharing this data with yet-another third party service. Tracking email, browsing habits, application usage, etc. is valuable, but the collected information should stay on my laptop.

[edit]: Cozy is a self-hosted web application (similar to ownCloud) so you're sharing the data with yourself. My point about browsing history and application usage still stands.

About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again.

This doesn't seem to be a third-party service, but a self-hosted webapp.

Cozy is a self-hosted platform that values privacy. You could upload the data from your osx app to YOUR cozy on YOUR server and make mashups with your other data. It is very valuable information so it is better if you actually hold that value :)

Very cool. I've haven't heard of Cozy before and just assumed it was another email provider, not a similar offering as ownCloud.

We could maybe build a bridge between you app and KYou. Did you push it on Github?

Yep, the code is open source: https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck

awesome! I will look this week-end if I can contribute to your project and add an option to save the results into KYou.

wakoopa was one my favourite applications so if you start working on your project again you have your first user already. :)

> About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again.

It's ObjC and not python, but you might be interested in this -- https://github.com/andrewschleifer/Slife

But can I host this on my own server?

I'm confused. It sounds like this is all limited to data built on Cozy such as Cozy Mail and Cozy Todos, why would I want to switch over to those applications to do my mail and todos?

They are the easiest trackers to build. But I would like to add stuff like weather tracking (based on forecast API), number of posted tweets, number of github commits...

First impression on the name: KYou sounds like a pitch for personalized lubricant.

Look like you know well this kind of product.

And we all know what the NSA is going to use this lubricant for...

They must already be using the best lubricant in the world, because they've been screwing the American public for years without anyone realising.

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