Consistent Tracker
Track your consistency across GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
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The Problem
When I work steadily but do not see immediate results, it is easy to feel as if the effort is going nowhere. GitHub already gave me a contribution graph for coding, but I had nothing similar for posting YouTube videos or staying consistent on Twitter and other platforms.
I wanted a public view of that effort. If I could see the days adding up, I thought it would be easier to stay motivated even before the results arrived.
The Motivation
I could not find the exact tracker I wanted, so I built Consistent Tracker. I believed the same idea could help indie hackers and video creators who wanted a visible record of the work they were doing every day.
Mistakes
I built the tool mainly for myself and stopped before making it production ready for other users. I published a landing page, and Google started ranking it for searches such as consistency tracker, but there was no complete product behind that demand.
Because I never finished the production experience, I could not learn whether the search traffic would have turned into users or sales.
Learning
Tracking public activity across platforms was harder than I expected. Some platforms did not expose enough data without account authentication. I did not yet understand the scraping tools I could use for public accounts, while private account data required a proper connection and user dashboard.
YouTube taught me a particularly useful lesson about dates and time zones. I lived in IST, the server ran in the United States, and parts of the tracker calculated activity in UTC. A post near midnight could appear on the wrong day unless I stored and displayed dates in the user's local time.
Achievements
I used Consistent Tracker to record 180 days of posting YouTube videos. Some platforms already had their own contribution-style views, but I built the YouTube tracker myself, checked it daily, and maintained the streak.
Seeing the final record made the effort feel real. The project did what I originally needed it to do, even though I did not finish turning it into a product for everyone else.