Shipped a privacy-first browser time tracker extension + dasboard
idk if this is relatable but i kept telling myself i only check twitter "for a minute" and then suddenly it's 40 minutes and i don't even remember what i read.
so at some point i was like ok fine i'll just build something stupid simple for myself.
it's called keep your time. browser extension. counts time per site. that's basically it.
right now it's live on chrome and firefox. i use it every day. not gonna pretend it's blowing up. it's small. but it solves my actual problem and a few other people seem to find it useful too.
i still don't know if the right move is notifications ("hey you've been on youtube 1h") or just hard blocking. depends on my mood honestly. some days i want a gentle nudge, some days i want the site gone.
anyway. if you also fight with this stuff — what actually worked for you? not the ideal answer. the real one.
happy to chat in comments if anyone's curious about the boring technical parts or store submission headaches.
One thing I'd be curious about is whether people are actually looking for the same outcome.
Someone who wants awareness of where their time goes and someone who wants help changing their behavior can end up asking for very similar features.
The tricky part is that notifications and blocking may look like a product decision when they're actually revealing something about which problem you're solving.
It's all depends from user and his settings.
You could use it as show all my sites and time I spend. Limits, notifications are optional. It's just additional feature
Makes sense.
I think what stood out to me was less the feature set and more that the same setup can still point to very different user expectations depending on which outcome they implicitly assume first.
Curious how that plays out once more usage data comes in.