Show HN: I built a dev diary that writes itself

Show HN: I built a dev diary that writes itself(mydev.day)

2 points by lucasmartinic 27 days ago | 2 comments

Hi HN, I'm Lucas. I mostly build XR things, but over the past month or so I've been developing a tool that became necessary for me: I'm usually working on many different things at once, and I needed a way to create reports and check what I worked on last year on a specific day.

mydev.day is an automatic development diary that writes itself as you build. You connect your agent to it once per project (takes a couple of minutes), and from then on it automatically adds an entry per feature. After that you can query it via the API to ask anything about all your work across projects and accounts, or go to the app to print nice looking charts and reports.

It started as an internal tool, but inspired by the indie hackers I follow, I decided to turn it into a product to see if it could be helpful for other builders and developers out there!

Fun fact: it was really cool to dogfood it on itself as I built it!

aniokono 27 days ago |

Luckas, good job. In simple terms, what's the core problem? Who did you create reports for? Yourself or your employer?

If yourself, how big is this problem?

lucasmartinic 27 days ago | |

Hi Aniokono, thanks. The core problem is that I work with clients and public funding, and sometimes these projects run for more than a year and at some point I need to prepare reports of the process and all the work that was done, including prototyping and things that didn't make it to the delieverable.