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WakaTime
Company blog · wakatime.com/blog · on HN as welderprogrammingproductivity
WakaTime is the company blog at wakatime.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2013, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 228 times, most often “WakaTime – Quantify your coding”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link WakaTime's blog mainly for its post on bots distorting voting sites like Product Hunt, cited as support for their points. Another link points to its GitLab integration guide.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Automatically track coding time and AI usage across your editors. See time by project and language, AI-generated code, and estimated model costs. Start for free.
Most-linked posts?
- WakaTime – Quantify your coding20 people · 31 mentions · first linked 2014-11-28
- /7 people · 61 mentions · first linked 2014-04-11
- Bots, so many bots3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-10-01
- Latency Comparison of DigitalOcean Spaces vs. AWS S32 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-02-20
- Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-02-20
- /blog/27-fill-the-gaps-in-your-coding-activity2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-04
- /@alan2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-09
- WakaTime 2019 Programming Stats2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-02
- /goals2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-10
- /blog/1-why-i-built-wakatime2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-23
What Hacker News says?
What's your experience with gunicorn instead of uWSGI? I'm using haproxy + nginx + uWSGI but I'm wondering if gunicorn scales network more than uWSGI. My bottleneck isn't CPU, it's the amount of open connections uWSGI can handle at once. Here's a trimmed down version of my web configs: https://wakatime.com/blog/23-how-to-scale-ssl-with-haproxy-a...
Comment linking /blog/23-how-to-scale-ssl-with-haproxy-and-nginx
on “The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)”Submitted Bots, so many bots as a story · 414 points
HN discussionFlask is easy, but it's actually better suited to seasoned programmers. Django's hand holding actually makes it a better framework for beginners. https://wakatime.com/blog/14-pirates-use-flask-the-navy-uses...
Comment linking /blog/14-pirates-use-flask-the-navy-uses-django
on “The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)”Submitted Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill as a story · 178 points
HN discussionWhat's your website? Mine's also on the same stack ( https://wakatime.com ). Would love to trade notes sometime.
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on “The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)”Submitted Show HN: WakaQ - a Python distributed task queue as a story · 147 points
HN discussionThere were several stages of MVP. First usable version took a month and half to build and public launch with 2 IDEs supported was 2 and half months after starting to build. May 3 2013 - Started development Flask website & Vim plugin ( https://wakatime.com/blog/1-why-i-built-wakatime ) June 25 2013 - Finished Vim plugin and Website ( https://github.com/wakatime/vim-wakatime/commit/4346a055e301... ) July 1 2013 - Star…
Comment linking /blog/1-why-i-built-wakatime
on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Flask vs. Django: Worksheet to choose the right framework as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThis page shows IDEs by most time logged: https://wakatime.com/a-look-back-at-2018
Comment linking /a-look-back-at-2018
on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted WakaTime – Quantify your coding as a story · 47 points
HN discussionTip: Turn up your timeout preference. https://wakatime.com/blog/37-when-is-time-tracking-too-accur... The default 15 mins is very accurate, and only represents time typing not time working.
Comment linking /blog/37-when-is-time-tracking-too-accurate
on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Show HN: WakaTime and Slack live demo as a story · 45 points
HN discussionNot sustainably... I've done that myself: it's hella fun but towards the end of the week the code stopped making sense and had to sleep for a whole day. WakaTime is very accurate so my daily average is only 4 hours of actual typing per day: https://wakatime.com/a-look-back-at-2018 https://wakatime.com/@alan
Comment linking /@alan
on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Pirates Use Flask, the Navy Uses Django as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSeven years ago I solo-started an automatic time tracker for programmers called WakaTime [1] and launched here on HN [2]. Partly from listening to developers too much, I waited way too long (almost a year) before adding a paid plan, but now it generates more MRR than an SF developer salary not including stock options. Technically I make more from RSUs and stock from past startups as a regular employee, but if I wasn…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Top 1k Coders using WakaTime as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMy one-person SaaS architecture with over 250k users: * Flask + Flask-Login + Flask-SQLAlchemy [1] * uWSGI app servers [2] * Nginx web servers [3] * Dramatiq/Celery with RabbitMQ for background tasks * Combination of Postgres, S3, and DigitalOcean Spaces for storing customer data [4] * SSDB (disk-based Redis) for caching, global locks, rate limiting, queues and counters used in application logic, etc [5] I like how…
Comment linking /blog/45-using-a-diskbased-redis-clone-to-reduce-aws-s3-bill
on “The architecture behind a one-person tech startup”Submitted Wakatime announcing a new integration: Histre as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAlso https://wakatime.com
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on “Write Code Every Day”Submitted When is time tracking too accurate? When you're billing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYep, same experience with Spaces here. That's why we use Spaces for backups only, since it's very affordable and backups don't need millisecond latency. https://wakatime.com/blog/46-latency-of-digitalocean-spaces-...
Comment linking /blog/46-latency-of-digitalocean-spaces-vs-aws-s3
on “DigitalOcean S-1”Submitted Open source plugins for automatic programming metrics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNothing is perfect. We use DigitalOcean Droplets because they're more bang-for-buck than AWS EC2 instances, especially if you're doing a lot of disk IO. However, even though it's more expensive we use AWS S3 instead of DigitalOcean Spaces because it's faster, more reliable, and replicated automatically. I wrote about these decisions recently here: https://wakatime.com/blog/46-latency-of-digitalocean-spaces-...
Comment linking /blog/46-latency-of-digitalocean-spaces-vs-aws-s3
on “DigitalOcean S-1”Submitted Visualize your daily productivity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere's Redis-compatible alternatives that use disk space instead of RAM. https://wakatime.com/blog/45-using-a-diskbased-redis-clone-t...
Comment linking /blog/45-using-a-diskbased-redis-clone-to-reduce-aws-s3-bill
on “Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL”Submitted Demystifying ulimit for maximum concurrent connections as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGood, now we just need the ability to declare function parameters and return values non-nullable (Forbid passing nil into a function, and declare a function will never return nil). That would get rid of the "panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" errors. https://wakatime.com/blog/48-go-desperately-needs-nil-safe-t...
Comment linking /blog/48-go-desperately-needs-nil-safe-types
on “Go Replaces Interface {} with 'Any'”Submitted Xcode 8 Will Disable All Your Plugins as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother website built 100% with Flask: https://wakatime.com Flask has scaled very well and never run into Django dead-ends, like where Django isn't flexible enough to do something and requires a hack.
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on “Flask 1.0 Released”Submitted WakaTime – Analytics for programmers as a story · 4 points
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