Hey, I’m Usman.

I spent years using time trackers that made me feel like I was just clocking in for a factory shift. I’d have these incredible "flow" sessions, it’s 1 AM, I’m deep in the zone, I’ve just refactored an entire auth system and pushed 6 clean commits and I’d look at my tracker only to see: "3 hours: TypeScript."

No context. No story. No soul. Just a cold bar on a chart.

Meanwhile, my friend finishes a 10K run, and Strava celebrates it with maps, elevation splits, and a flood of kudos from the community. It’s motivating. It’s human. I started wondering: Why don’t we have that for the work we’re actually proud of?

So, I built Kodo.

It’s not a tracker; it’s a narrative

The core philosophy behind Kodo is shifting the question from "Did you work enough?" to "Look what you achieved."

It runs passively in your IDE, but instead of just logging minutes, it uses AI to turn your raw activity into a story. If you’ve spent two hours jumping between three different files and a specific branch, Kodo doesn't just say "Coding." It says: "Refactored the authentication flow and killed that critical login bug." It’s the summary you wish you could write for your standup, generated for you.

Solving the "Surveillance Ick"

As developers, we have a collective allergy to trackers because they usually exist for managers, not us. I built Kodo with a few "non-negotiables":

Privacy First: Kodo never reads your source code. Period. If you're feeling private, "Stealth Mode" logs timestamps and nothing else. Social, not Competitive: We have a social feed where teammates can see you’re online or drop a "kudos" on a big session. It’s not a leaderboard to see who worked the most; it’s a way to feel less lonely when you’re shipping at midnight. The Burnout Nudge: I’ve been the guy coding at 3 AM on fumes, thinking I’m a hero when I’m actually just breaking things. Kodo gives you a Cognitive Freshness Score. It’ll actually nudge you to take a break after 90 minutes of high-intensity work.

The Stack (For the curious)

I’m a huge fan of the T3/Supabase ecosystem, so I kept the engine modern and fast:

Frontend/API: Next.js (App Router) + Hono. Database/Auth: Postgress + Drizzle ORM + Better-Auth. Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 and Shadcn/UI (because DX matters). Extension: Pure TypeScript for the VS Code family (cursor, windsurf, antigravity), Kotlin for JetBrain and typescript again for Claude code(Yes Kodo also track your Claude code sessions).

The AI layer uses OpenAI and Anthropic to parse your metadata into those human readable summaries, and I even added 5 different "AI Coach" personalities (from "Hype" to "Wellness") so you can choose the vibe that fits your team’s culture.

Give it a spin

I built this because we deserve better than a punch card. We deserve a tool that recognizes the craft, the flow, and the effort it takes to build things.

You can try it out at [kodo.codes](https://kodo.codes).

It supports basically everything (VS Code, Cursor, IntelliJ, even Claude Code). Create an API key, drop it in your editor, and just... code. Kodo handles the rest.

I’d love to hear what you think especially from anyone else who’s felt that "productivity tool burnout."

Try kodo at kodo.codes