Product Launch
anonymous
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Acquacotta
github.commvpdeveloper_tooldevelopers
Key Features
Pomodoro timeruses Google Sheets as a database
Tech Stack
Google Sheets likely Google Apps Script or another scripting language
Key Features
Tech Stack
I built Acquacotta to solve the "audit" problem. It’s a minimalist, open-source timer that treats your productivity like a data science project.
The Architecture: Instead of a traditional backend, Acquacotta logs every session in real-time directly to your own Google Sheet.
Offline-First: It uses a local SQLite cache so the UI is never blocked by network latency to the Google API.
Data Sovereignty: You own the infrastructure and the schema. You can run your own pivot tables, regressions, or pipe the data into an LLM for a performance audit without ever "exporting" a CSV.
No Commercial Version: This is purely a passion project. There is no "Pro" tier or tracking.
Key Features for Power Users:
Acoustic Focus: An optional "60 Minutes" style ticking sound that acts as a Pavlovian trigger for flow states.
Physical Timer Support: A dedicated mode to manually (but quickly) log sessions from tactile hardware like Hexagon timers.
Sustainability Metrics: Visual "Daily Minute Goals" designed to prevent the "heroics-to-burnout" cycle by helping you find your "Goldilocks zone" of output.
I built this because I wanted a professional-grade audit log of my career, not just a series of alarms.
GitHub: https://github.com/fatherlinux/Acquacotta
Hosted Web App: https://acquacotta.crunchtools.com:8443
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the "Sheets-as-a-backend" approach for small-scale personal telemetry.
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