Lentando, private habit and substance tracker (vanilla JavaScript, PWA)

Name: Lentando, private habit and substance tracker (vanilla JavaScript, PWA)
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Author: KilledByAPixel

by KilledByAPixel·Feb 17, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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The Take

The neat engineering move is the event-consolidation that keeps aggregates stable while shrinking on-disk history so a browser can hold decade-long data — that’s a non-obvious solution to a real storage problem. Pair that with a tombstone-and-timestamp merge for optional sync, custom canvas charts, and time-travel debugging, and you’ve got a privacy-first tracker that’s technically interesting and actually usable offline.

Post Description

Hi HN, I built Lentando, a privacy first tracker for substance use and habits (nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, or custom). It's an offline first PWA, no account required unless you opt into multi device sync. Released under GPL 3.0.

Under the hood it's about 6K lines of vanilla ES6 with no runtime dependencies. To make long term browser storage practical, it consolidates older events while keeping aggregates stable. Optional sync uses a simple conflict tolerant merge (event timestamps and tombstones) so offline edits across devices don't break. Charts are a small custom canvas renderer (stacked bar charts and heatmaps), and there's time travel debugging plus 100+ Node unit tests.

I'd love feedback from both developers and anyone who tries it, on the architecture, the UX, and what you would improve.

Repo: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/Lentando Live: https://lentando.3d2k.com