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Tomatoes (http://tomato.es) - Time tracker and pomodoro timer

That's why I made Draw![1][2] pixel art animation editor!

[1] http://drawbang.com

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drawbang/id578228937

I agree with most of your thoughts.

You say: "unfortunately it is not possible to pay bills with pull requests", that's one of the reasons I'm working on http://issuehunter.co, a project to get paid for OSS development. It's a crowdfunding platform based on GitHub issues, it should improve and accelerate open source software development process.

I'll shortly release a beta version and I'd really like to get some of that big percentage of developers that "do a lot of work in their free time for passion" as beta testers. Well, there's an alpha version at http://issuehunter.herokuapp.com where you can sign up but it's not fully functional at the moment.

You can follow http://twitter.com/issuehunter to get notified about project updates.

Direct link to the script: https://github.com/hackatron/hackatron-hubot/blob/master/scr...

I think Pomodoro Technique works well against interruptions or at least against unintended interruptions. That's why I made and use regularly Tomatoes[1] pomodoro time tracker (now I'm on my long break).

[1] http://tomato.es

I love to share things with small groups of people through email, I use Google Groups, it's free and it works great.

I've always found hard to write scheduled log entries. I feel more confortable with task driven logs, think about a log made by commits of a repository of my work life.

Because I keep it for the next post!

Not in the near future.

I have one, it's called "forking" and it'll be ready soon.

Great resource, thanks. I think we need tools like these.

I'm trying to build a service to help devs get paid for their contribution to the Open Source community and to get things done faster and hopefully better by paying for development.

It looks cool but I get a 404 following the link to the repo[1] on GitHub

[1] https://github.com/rstudio/shiny

Did you try Tomato.es[1] to track your pomodoros? I'd like to get feedbacks from GTD gurus.

About music I warmly recommend musicForProgramming();[2]

[1] http://tomato.es

[2] http://musicforprogramming.net

This is why you should think about a multi region architecture to prevent these types of service interruptions.

I really like explanations in the form: "we're <known service> for <new problem to solve>"

Gun.io has a similar feature: http://gun.io/open/

You're right, thanks for reporting.

I've created an issue for that: https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/issues/45

My side projects look like gifts to me, I feel uncomfortable to sell them.

Maybe this isn't the entrepreneur way but I feel bonded with most of the lines of code I write. I think I could sell two side projects of mine (http://tomato.es and http://drawbang.com) profitably but I use them to experiment and I really like to see them grow naturally, they're like little plants growing in a big forest.

I tryed it too, it's a good product but I like most Tomatoes because I built it aiming for simplicity.

With Tomatoes you can press spacebar from the public index (http://tomato.es) to start the pomodoro timer, if you want to save progress you must sign up. I like services who let you try their product before you sign up.

Sign up with one-click auth process (through GitHub or Twitter) and press spacebar to start a new timer. At the end of the timer the only information needed to save a tomato is: none, just press enter. If you fill it with tags then you'll get access to advanced statistics through projects.

I'd like to introduce new users to Tomatoes gradually that's why I'm trying to setup a process of badges/grants to let advanced users access more features. Example: you can change timer progress bar color only after 100 tracked tomatoes.

The badge/widget/html plugin is on my TODO list: https://github.com/potomak/tomatoes/issues/41, follow the issue to get updated about development progress.

I'm trying to do the same with http://tomato.es

it works, but the timer is too long. you can cheat by running "javascript: TT.start(1)"

This could work great in conjunction with Tomatoes[1]

[1] http://tomatoes.heroku.com

Well, you're right, sorry for my nearly out of topic comment.

Yes there is, see my comment at http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3612459

I used this technique to make the isometric effect at http://drawbang.com, see https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/blob/develop/public/styl...

I think it's much more similar to Goliath than to Sinatra.

This is the same transition I'm about to have. Goodbye osx, welcome linux and thanks for yor feedback.

I think I'm a distraction-junkie, I'm using Tomatoes[1], a tool to measure coding slots with pomodoros. It works great, but when I'm compiling my code, in my case running tests because I work on web applications, I can't resist to check email. I'll try useful tips from the article like reading while waiting for long tasks.

[1] http://tomatoes.heroku.com

A cool project.

Note: it doesn't recognize .md or .markdown file extensions on OSX