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Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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These Spotify visualizations are from the same app that went viral earlier this year among Swifties: https://x.com/PobBase/status/1796603662275694919

And the OP is too humble to flog it, but he also writes a cool newsletter about developing the app over at https://ngenart.substack.com/

Source: I am the OP's brother!

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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Very cool! I've been playing around with exporting my twitter archive & visualizing it/finding semantic clusters/changes in my beliefs over time etc. There's a couple initiatives of people making their personal data publicly accessible/building tools on top of it:

[1] https://www.community-archive.org/ [2] https://www.openhumans.org/

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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Looks interesting. Has an off-by-one error though; YTD steps receipt starts with December 2023. I'm in UTC+1.

Ahhhh interesting, thanks for pointing this out!

Looked into it and it has to do with how Swift and JS (for the WebView visualization) handle dates. Will push a bug fix in the next update!

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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post #11

These Spotify visualizations are from the same app that went viral earlier this year among Swifties: https://x.com/PobBase/status/1796603662275694919 And the OP is too humble to flog it, but he also writes a cool newsletter about developing the app over at https://ngenart.substack.com/ Source: I am the OP's brother!

This is indeed true, thank you bruddah :')

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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I'd love to be able to pick data input myself! For example I swim and I might want to see my swimming pace or total distance for each month like a high score chart. Though many people are into different sports so being able to iterate all available Health data and having a dropdown would be great.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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Very cool! I've been playing around with exporting my twitter archive & visualizing it/finding semantic clusters/changes in my beliefs over time etc. There's a couple initiatives of people making their personal data publicly accessible/building tools on top of it: [1] https://www.community-archive.org/ [2] https://www.openhumans.org/

Woahhhh thank you for sharing! I had never heard of these initiatievs, they're really interesting and I'm going to take a closer look at each of them.

Also sounds really cool with what you've done with your own Twitter data! Would love to connect and hear more about it if you're willing to share some of the outputs -- I'm @_re_pete on X and Instagram!

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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Nice! I don't use Spotify but the Apple Health ones are really cool :)

FYI it doesn't seem to work on macOS, it lets you install it from the Mac App Store and step through the onboarding but it seems like it doesn't have the Health data API you're using. It doesn't request access to anything and just carries on, then "get started" doesn't do anything.

On iOS it works great though! One small thing I noticed is that after the onboarding it was showing the health visualisations as still requiring me to connect. After a few taps it updated and worked though.

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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It would be neat if it would take cycling from health - I’m the least capable runner that’s ever existed. Give me a bike and I might get somewhere. Strava and Apple Music might be good additions.

Thanks so much for giving it a look! I can definitely add a cycling data piece or make it a toggle for the existing pieces too! Will look into adding Strava as well, have worked with it in the past but they recently further restricted their APIs. Have looked into Apple Music and unfortunately they only make your recently played songs available via API, so have been digging to see if there are other ways to make the v…

Thank you for even considering those things.

Re: Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art

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Nice! I don't use Spotify but the Apple Health ones are really cool :) FYI it doesn't seem to work on macOS, it lets you install it from the Mac App Store and step through the onboarding but it seems like it doesn't have the Health data API you're using. It doesn't request access to anything and just carries on, then "get started" doesn't do anything. On iOS it works great though! One small thing I noticed is that af…

Thanks for the heads-up on the bugs! Super weird on the MacOS download…it’s iOS only so I’m surprised it’d let you download it on Mac.

Thanks for letting me know about the connection bugs! Will hopefully have an update for that ASAP

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