Updates on Hello Code, Quantified Self, and Exist.
Ever since we started working on Exist , I've been tracking my productive time on my Windows PC. For the vast majority of this time I was using RescueTime , together with Exist's RescueTime integration, so that I could automatically see my productive and distracting time totals in Exist and correlate that with everything else. RescueTime is a great product that, until recently, had a very generous…
For many years, an Oura ring has been my sleep tracking device of choice. I was keen on the ring form factor because it's small, light, and unobtrusive — wearing a watch to bed has never seemed comfortable to me. So when we bought an Oura ring to use for testing an integration for Exist , I was happy to stick with it personally. I didn't care about its activity tracking, but I trusted its sleep…
It's the start of a new year, so it's time to summarise the results of our annual user survey for Exist. Top ways to find Exist include search, related services, and Reddit . 24% of survey responders found Exist through searching for something like it, 13% from a related service like RescueTime or Todoist, and 11% from Reddit. Articles and blog posts also accounted for 11%. User numbers were…
If you want to write a program that tracks your activity on Windows, like I'm doing with Foreground , the core of that tracking is finding out which process owns the currently active window. Only one window is the active window at any one time, and Windows provides an API function to tell us which one that is. Fortunately, Microsoft also publishes official Rust bindings for Windows with the…
We've been working in public ever since we started building Exist . We've blogged about what we're working on and our long-term goals, published a podcast about the process of development, run yearly user feedback surveys, and since 2016 we've been publishing our user subscription numbers and income every single week. Right from the start we had a public roadmap, too, where users could see what we…
Exist This month we finished up 2022-related tasks like writing up the findings from our user feedback survey, and started planning our work for the year to come. Completed this month Published a blog post summarising the results of our 2022 user feedback survey 2022 yearly report was sent out to everyone with enough data (you should have seen an email from us and a notification in Exist with a…
At the end of 2022 we sent out our first user feedback survey since 2019 . Since our last survey we'd released manual tracking , which was one of the biggest changes to Exist since we launched around 8 years ago. Manual tracking lets you enter data directly into Exist that you can't sync from other sources, and even define your own attributes. As well as helping us get feedback on manual tracking…
We started holidays the week before Christmas, so it was a short month as we wrapped up loose ends before taking a break. Exist Completed this month Finished and released the user feedback survey for this year. It's now closed, and I'll have a write-up of the results on the blog soon. Thanks to everyone who participated! Numbers for this month 1,701 active users 1,275 paid users 265 new signups…
A quiet month, but progress continues! Exist Completed this month Nothing this month, unfortunately. We have a couple of things almost finished, but didn't manage to get them done before the month ended. Numbers for this month 1,644 active users 1,295 paid users 341 new signups $12,108 MRR Up next I'm almost done with our transition from Dark Sky to WeatherKit, so I'll try to wrap that up this…
It's been a long time since we wrote one of these monthly wrap-up posts! We decided the time required to compile the stats and write the blog post each month could be better spent elsewhere. However, I want to try a simpler approach that'll be quicker to write but still provide some transparency into what we're up to each month. Here goes! Exist Completed this month Update GitHub repo for our…