[idea] Open source waka time server implementation

[at15]

https://wakatime.com can be used to track how you spend your time for coding, however it only have three week history for free user. The server API is quite simple https://wakatime.com/developers. The storage should be a RDBMS + Time series database. Like MySQL + InfluxDB. If search is needed, things like Elasticsearch can be introduced. Front end is mainly focus on dashboard, echart is enough. A rough plan could be like following

• choose the language and framework. I prefer language that does not require runtime or the runtime is easy to install on all platforms, so you can run the server locally, i.e. Golang, NodeJS, Python
• choose the database
• implement basic API
• fork wakatime editor plugins to support pointing to custom server
• allow team share and leaderboard
• integration with GitLab

It could also be used for things like homework statistics collection, track project progress etc.

[gaocegege]

Good idea, but I'm afraid that there is no one interested in it now.
🤔 Because you know, this idea may be a little complicated, and I think there are little people to build a service like that. I would choose to pay for wakatime.

[at15]

@gaocegege I don't think you can afford a bunch of people using waka time, and you can do some hook and mining on data easily if you have full control of the statistics.

[at15]

I chose to pay for wakatime .... until I finished building a workable TSDB

[at15]

I think I can have try to do something similar when building reika https://github.com/at15/reika

[arrowrowe]

@at15 looking forward

[gaocegege]

Hope you could implement it :)

[at15]

@gaocegege where there is hope, there is disappointment 😄