TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#1

Post by kevin_morrill » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

This is a simple service I built inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body that sends you a text message in the morning. Reply with your weight and it tracks it for you. Come back to the site, and you'll see a graph of your weight.

Working on adding better site UI, but wanted to get something basic out for folks setting resolutions. Enjoy!

TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions
textweight.com

Re: TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#2

Post by kevin_morrill » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:21 PM UTC

This is a simple app I built for fun after getting inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body book. It pings you in the morning via text message to reply with your weight. When you go back to the site, you can see all your replies as a graph.

It's just a toy for now, so hopefully some people can use it to accomplish their goals in the New Year. I'll try to improve the UI a bit as I get free time.

Re: TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#3

Post by rmontgomery429 » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 11:07 PM UTC

kevin_morrill wrote: post #2

This is a simple app I built for fun after getting inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body book. It pings you in the morning via text message to reply with your weight. When you go back to the site, you can see all your replies as a graph. It's just a toy for now, so hopefully some people can use it to accomplish their goals in the New Year. I'll try to improve the UI a bit as I get free time.

Great idea. I just signed up.

Re: TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#4

Post by bwaldorf » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 6:47 AM UTC

kevin_morrill wrote: post #2

This is a simple app I built for fun after getting inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body book. It pings you in the morning via text message to reply with your weight. When you go back to the site, you can see all your replies as a graph. It's just a toy for now, so hopefully some people can use it to accomplish their goals in the New Year. I'll try to improve the UI a bit as I get free time.

I just logged in an it said it will text me at 8am tomorrow? How do you turn it off?

Re: TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#5

Post by dmor » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

bwaldorf wrote: post #4

kevin_morrill wrote: post #2

This is a simple app I built for fun after getting inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body book. It pings you in the morning via text message to reply with your weight. When you go back to the site, you can see all your replies as a graph. It's just a toy for now, so hopefully some people can use it to accomplish their goals in the New Year. I'll try to improve the UI a bit as I get free time.

I just logged in an it said it will text me at 8am tomorrow? How do you turn it off?

you can just respond with STOP when you get the first text

Re: TxtWeight for New Years weight loss resolutions

#6

Post by al_crowley » Tue, Jan 04, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

kevin_morrill wrote: post #2

This is a simple app I built for fun after getting inspired by Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Body book. It pings you in the morning via text message to reply with your weight. When you go back to the site, you can see all your replies as a graph. It's just a toy for now, so hopefully some people can use it to accomplish their goals in the New Year. I'll try to improve the UI a bit as I get free time.

It looks like the site is using the HighCharts javascript library to build your graphs, is that right? How do you like that library? I am using Google's charts API right now for a "weekend project", but they aren't as pretty as yours. Any opinion on how Highcharts compares to other open source charting libs like Dojo, gRaphael, or flot?