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KYou, a new open source solution to know yourself better

31 points by gelnior 13y ago

imkevinxu 13y ago
I'm confused. It sounds like this is all limited to data built on Cozy such as Cozy Mail and Cozy Todos, why would I want to switch over to those applications to do my mail and todos?
- gelnior 13y ago
  They are the easiest trackers to build. But I would like to add stuff like weather tracking (based on forecast API), number of posted tweets, number of github commits...
cheald 13y ago
First impression on the name: KYou sounds like a pitch for personalized lubricant.
- gelnior 13y ago
  Look like you know well this kind of product.
- BetaCygni 13y ago
  And we all know what the NSA is going to use this lubricant for...
  - Digit-Al 13y ago
    They must already be using the best lubricant in the world, because they've been screwing the American public for years without anyone realising.
conroy 13y ago
I'm a fan of quantified self, but I'm not comfortable sharing this data with yet-another third party service. Tracking email, browsing habits, application usage, etc. is valuable, but the collected information should stay on my laptop. [edit]: Cozy is a self-hosted web application (similar to ownCloud) so you're sharing the data with yourself. My point about browsing history and application usage still stands. About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again.
- icebraining 13y ago
  This doesn't seem to be a third-party service, but a self-hosted webapp.
- jsilvestre 13y ago
  Cozy is a self-hosted platform that values privacy. You could upload the data from your osx app to YOUR cozy on YOUR server and make mashups with your other data. It is very valuable information so it is better if you actually hold that value :)
  - conroy 13y ago
    Very cool. I've haven't heard of Cozy before and just assumed it was another email provider, not a similar offering as ownCloud.
- gelnior 13y ago
  We could maybe build a bridge between you app and KYou. Did you push it on Github?
  - conroy 13y ago
    Yep, the code is open source: https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck
    - gelnior 13y ago
      awesome! I will look this week-end if I can contribute to your project and add an option to save the results into KYou.
- sebkomianos 13y ago
  wakoopa was one my favourite applications so if you start working on your project again you have your first user already. :)
- andrewschleifer 13y ago

31 points by gelnior 13y ago

I'm confused. It sounds like this is all limited to data built on Cozy such as Cozy Mail and Cozy Todos, why would I want to switch over to those applications to do my mail and todos?

gelnior 13y ago
They are the easiest trackers to build. But I would like to add stuff like weather tracking (based on forecast API), number of posted tweets, number of github commits...

cheald 13y ago

First impression on the name: KYou sounds like a pitch for personalized lubricant.

gelnior 13y ago
Look like you know well this kind of product.
BetaCygni 13y ago
And we all know what the NSA is going to use this lubricant for...
- Digit-Al 13y ago
  They must already be using the best lubricant in the world, because they've been screwing the American public for years without anyone realising.

conroy 13y ago

I'm a fan of quantified self, but I'm not comfortable sharing this data with yet-another third party service. Tracking email, browsing habits, application usage, etc. is valuable, but the collected information should stay on my laptop. [edit]: Cozy is a self-hosted web application (similar to ownCloud) so you're sharing the data with yourself. My point about browsing history and application usage still stands. About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again.

icebraining 13y ago
This doesn't seem to be a third-party service, but a self-hosted webapp.
jsilvestre 13y ago
Cozy is a self-hosted platform that values privacy. You could upload the data from your osx app to YOUR cozy on YOUR server and make mashups with your other data. It is very valuable information so it is better if you actually hold that value :)
- conroy 13y ago
  Very cool. I've haven't heard of Cozy before and just assumed it was another email provider, not a similar offering as ownCloud.
gelnior 13y ago
We could maybe build a bridge between you app and KYou. Did you push it on Github?
- conroy 13y ago
  Yep, the code is open source: https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck
  - gelnior 13y ago
    awesome! I will look this week-end if I can contribute to your project and add an option to save the results into KYou.
sebkomianos 13y ago
wakoopa was one my favourite applications so if you start working on your project again you have your first user already. :)
andrewschleifer 13y ago