No company behind this. No team. Just a student who loves sim racing, needed a tool that didn't exist at a fair price, and decided to build it himself.
My story
I am studying Industrial Engineering, which means I spend a lot of time thinking about systems, efficiency, and how to make things work better. Outside of university, one of my biggest passions is sim racing — specifically Assetto Corsa, which I have been driving seriously for years.
Like any driver who wants to improve, I started looking for a tool that would give me proper lap data and telemetry analysis without requiring me to either build an entire local setup myself or pay the kind of subscription fees that are normally reserved for professional motorsport teams. The options I found either asked for too much money, were too complicated to set up, or simply did not do everything I wanted in one place.
So I did what an engineering student does: I figured out how to build it myself. ACTracker started as a personal tool — something I made for me, on my own time, to scratch my own itch. Then I thought: if I needed this, other people probably do too.
Why I built it
There are sim racing telemetry tools out there. Some are good. But they all had at least one problem — and that problem was enough to send me back to a blank code editor.
Every tool I tried either locked serious features behind an expensive subscription or was a one-time purchase with no ongoing improvement. I wanted something genuinely useful that a student could actually afford to keep using.
Most tools store your data locally. That means you can only view it on the PC you race on. I wanted to be able to look at a lap on my phone, on my laptop, wherever I happened to be thinking about the session.
Lap times here, telemetry there, AI analysis somewhere else. I was tired of stitching together multiple tools. ACTracker is the single place where all of it lives — cloud storage, lap analysis, statistics, lap comparison, and AI coaching.
I wanted something that just works. You open Assetto Corsa, you drive, and your lap is already saved. ACTracker runs quietly in the background and does not ask anything of you.
One-man team
Competitors in this space often have funded teams behind them. ACTracker does not. What it has instead is someone who actually uses the product every day and cares deeply about making it better.
Typical competitor
Team of developers. Marketing budget. Investor pressure.
Well-funded tools are polished, but they answer to investors and revenue targets first. Pricing is set to maximise profit, not to be accessible.
ACTracker
One developer. Zero investors. Every feature built for real use.
Being solo means every decision is made by someone who actually sits in the driving seat and wants the tool to be as good as possible — not as profitable as possible.
Support the project
ACTracker is free to use. I believe that good tools should be accessible to everyone, not just people who can spend a lot of money on sim racing software.
That said, running the infrastructure — cloud storage, servers, AI coaching — has real costs. If you find ACTracker genuinely useful, a paid tier at a fair price is the most direct way to support continued development. You are not paying for a corporation's profit margin. You are paying one person's server bill and allowing them to keep building.
Every person who chooses a paid tier makes a direct difference to how much time and energy I can put into ACTracker. More support means more features, faster fixes, and a better tool for everyone.
There is no middleman. Revenue from ACTracker goes directly to the one person building and maintaining it — not to a company's shareholders.
Every paid subscription means I can spend more time building and less time worrying about infrastructure costs. Your support directly translates into new features and improvements.
No sudden price hikes, no features getting locked behind a higher tier after launch. Fair pricing is a core promise of this project, not a marketing line.
If you cannot afford to pay or simply do not want to, ACTracker remains free to use. Paid users help keep the free tier alive for everyone else.
Building ACTracker as a solo developer means I rely heavily on the people who actually use it. A bug you found, a feature you are missing, something that confused you on first use — all of it helps make the product better. There is no feedback form that disappears into a void. When you write to me, I read it personally.
feedback@ac-tracker.com · I personally read every message
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