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by dep_b 2256 days ago
I'm working on a product that logs everything you do on your computer super accurately, but when it comes down to submitting those activities the user can (actually often really needs to) clean them up first.

The raw logged data doesn't leave the computer, the boss or client gets a version that might or might not be an accurate reflection of what the worker did.

The most important thing is that you're able to "remember" what you did two weeks back, how much time you spent on it and for what project. Because that takes a lot of time and is always very inaccurate if you need to do it from memory.

There is no way I want the end user to feel spied on by the tool, that would totally kill the acceptation in the market.

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“ There is no way I want the end user to feel spied on by the tool, that would totally kill the acceptation in the market.”

Are you selling to the actual user? Usually stuff like this gets bought by the employer.

Reminds me of Timely's Memory, which does upload the raw data onto a server, but says that it's only accessible by you.

https://memory.ai/timely/features/automatic-time-tracking

This is scary from an acquisition standpoint. Every single employer that signs up would want the raw data/unclean data, so if you sell the company the absolute first thing the buyer will do to extract value is to give their customers what they want.