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Show HN: I built desktop app for keeping track of your PC gaming sessions

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3879010/Sentinel_Signal/
3•sentinelsignal•3h ago
Hi everyone! I've been working hard to deliver my application to Steam and now it is released!

Its purpose is to help you better manage your gaming sessions. It can automatically detect when you run your games, track the gaming time, let you set weekly gaming goals, a gaming session limit and send you visual and audio notification when you are close to your gaming limit. You can also flexibly extend your gaming session up to a degree while you are in game to ensure that you can finish up your current session as you needed.

Currently it only works for Steam games. I would be happy to hear your questions, comments and feedback.

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Klaster_1•2h ago
Being limited to a single platform, and then to a single store is a huge drawback. Some games, like Alan Wake 2, are Epic exclusives. Do you plan to address that?

Personally, I solved the issue by decoupling the whole idea and just manually tracking time. As a bonus, you could track other activities like work. Link in the profile.

sentinelsignal•1h ago
That is a very good point. Thank you very much for your comment. Yes, I am aware of this drawback, I have plans to address this point at later stages but for the initial phase I wanted Sentinel Signal to be really focused on solving core problem very well for Steam gamers and work right out of the box with no need to do manual tracking.

At some point I will probably expand game detection to other platforms but I will ensure that it will have extremely high accuracy before doing so.

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