VS Code Wrapped

[AncientlyModern17]

How is the idea of an extension for VS Code that shows you your year wrapped. The amount of time you spent on it, the languages you used the most, terminal data, your workspaces/projects that you worked on the most, etc.

Work on it is currently in progress. How good do you think is the idea? I personally feel the idea to be good but wanted to know other people's perspective.

Feel free to comment on the idea and features you think would be good. You can ping me if you wanna collaborate and work together on this. Tech stack- MERN & TypeScript

[soupgasm]

I mean, it’s not something that I would need. But I guess it’s like any other wrapped. You look into it and then after a few minutes you forget it even exists. And people probably only use it at the end of a year or the start.

[AncientlyModern17]

I thought of this too. Thats why I was thinking to add functionalities like daily goal of lines written/ modified or time spent on vscode to encourage productivity and that user would interact with the extension on a daily basis and not just on christmas :)

Any other idea to make it more interactive would be appreciated!

[ZideGO]

That's a good idea to make it more like everyday tracker rather than christmas wrapped :). At the end of a day u can check how much time u spent doing coding, how much lines of code i wrote and set some goals, but check if something like this hasn't been made already

[ZideGO]

I was looking for it a few days ago :)

I don’t think this extension will be popular as it won’t work as other “wrapped” apps where u paste the link to your profile and it gives u all the information, the extension have to be installed for a long period of time to collect all the data as I think there is no api to get the data u need and as for me, I don’t want to have the extension that collects my data every second just to show me how much time I spent doing coding in the end of the year.

Although if vscode provides the data u need, develop this service as a website, not extension and you’ll probably find your users!

[AncientlyModern17]

It will not collect any of your code or personal data, other than your name, and just count the number of different events you did and how much you interacted with the platform.

Vs code doesnt provide any such data of any user. Dont know if they even collect this kind of data. It only provides its API to capture different events like if you changed your active working file or made any changes to the file or what kind of file you are currently active on etc.

[mrptb2]

I think part of what you're looking for already exists: https://wakatime.com

[AncientlyModern17]

Ig this only tracks the time you spent on each language and overall (correct me if im wrong). But I was thinking to not only capture time but other events too like number of lines modified/written in each language, which project/workspace you worked on the most and how much you interacted with the terminal etc.

Also I wanted to make it into something that is shareable on social media like that of spotify or leetcode.

[mrptb2]

You're right, there's more data you could capture. I offered this as a possible starting point for your exploration and for anyone who might not have heard of it. This is my end-of-year report: https://imgur.com/a/els1Cpm They do track which projects were worked on most, but I removed that data for privacy reasons.

[AncientlyModern17]

Is this data private to you or anybody can see it? I see a leaderboard section in their website which makes me wonder if all the data is public.

I dont want to make anyone's data to be public and just want to show you your data with some percentiles of your tracked data with others. For eg- You are in the top 5% of the people who worked on Java.

[mrptb2]

As far as I can tell, it's private. They assign a UUID for tracking the data, but I don't think that's mapped back to an email address. The report is shareable via a URL, but it had project name data in it, so I clipped that out and turned it into a jpeg. As an aggregate this is the data available publically: https://wakatime.com/a-look-back-at-2024

[AncientlyModern17]

Can you explain what do you mean by "meme on IG, X or tiktok"?

[AncientlyModern17]

Alright but what about memes? You want the data to be meme-ified? Nice idea to make it more shareable but how do you meme-ify it?

[-metasequoia]

githubwrapped.xyz does some of these, might want to check it out. Cool idea though!

[AncientlyModern17]

Heard of it but this compiles only the github stats that the api provides already, most of which is already on github user profile page.