Draft:WakaTime

WakaTime is an automatic time tracking software developed by WakaTime, LLC which is a Delaware S_corporation. The company offers online time tracking and reporting services through their website along with desktop applications and text editor plug-ins.

WakaTime tracks the time a software developer spends typing, optionally labeled with a filename, a repository, and branch.

Details
WakaTime was created in 2013 by Alan Hamlett in San Francisco, California. The service was initially developed for independent consultants. The founder was a contract software developer and struggled to keep track how much time he had spent on each client.

In 2023, WakaTime became a GitHub secret scanning partner.

As of January 2024, WakaTime had more than 500 thousand registered users.

Product
The product is sold as software as a service, based on a per-seat license, with monthly and annual plans. Each January WakaTime releases a yearly report using anonymized developer data detailing the most used text editors, operating systems, and programming languages.

Technology
WakaTime is built using Flask and Go.