Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by macgambill » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

tomasien wrote: post #8

Which trackers do you sync with? Could you list them here, I think that would be helpful. I also found this helpful http://blog.nudgeyourself.com/health-tech-and-food-nerd-blog...

Currently Moves, RunKeeper, MapMyRun, MapMyRide, other MapMy's... have another coming really soon!

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by edwardrs » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 4:57 PM UTC

I like the idea and the overall design but on the 'Log' page the top circles are a little confusing. I was trying to tap on them initially and it took me a few minutes to realize that they just showed the status. If they were different then the rest in some way it might make it more obvious.

I would also love Fitbit integration. I know a lot of people who have them (myself included) and because I would still have to use two apps might prevent me from using Nudge long term.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by msthomaa » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

macgambill wrote: post #7

msthomaa wrote: post #6

Any chance of Sleep as Android integration?

We have actually had a few people mention that recently and I definitely want to look more into it. How has your experience been with it?

I've been using the app for about a year and a half by now and it's been really great as an alarm (it detects and wakes you during light sleep). Plus it calculates sleep duration, which you could use in your app. I believe that the data are accessible as a .csv in the phone's SD card so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by psycr » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:01 PM UTC

macgambill wrote: post #7

msthomaa wrote: post #6

Any chance of Sleep as Android integration?

We have actually had a few people mention that recently and I definitely want to look more into it. How has your experience been with it?

Fitbit has a reasonably good sleep API - as does Jawbone.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by RossM » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

macgambill wrote: post #10

chalgo wrote: post #9

Trying to signup it asks for my weight but doesn't say what unit of measurement is expected.

Unfortunately it is only in lbs right now - metric coming later this week though. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for pointing that out!

To give my interpretation, I assumed it was free text, and that if I put a unit at the end it would pick it up. This could be quite neat if it set that unit as my default unit for recording in?

Also thanks for releasing this, I've been building something similar but not making much progress.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by macgambill » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

edwardrs wrote: post #12

I like the idea and the overall design but on the 'Log' page the top circles are a little confusing. I was trying to tap on them initially and it took me a few minutes to realize that they just showed the status. If they were different then the rest in some way it might make it more obvious. I would also love Fitbit integration. I know a lot of people who have them (myself included) and because I would still have to…

Yeah, great to hear someone else mention the logging circles - will definitely talk to the team about that.

Fitbit is definitely on our list of integrations and we are trying to integrate as quickly as we can. Once you sign up we can keep you posted with upcoming releases.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by philbeene » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

psycr wrote: post #14

macgambill wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have actually had a few people mention that recently and I definitely want to look more into it. How has your experience been with it?

Fitbit has a reasonably good sleep API - as does Jawbone.

cool. we just started working on Jawbone, and hopefully will get around to fitbit in short order.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by daemonk » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:18 PM UTC

My problem with these health monitoring systems is similar to the problem the FDA had with 23andMe. It's one thing to collect data and present them in an easy to accessible way. But it is another to attempt to give out medical advice based on the data. How far are you planning on taking the data in terms of interpretation?

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by philbeene » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

daemonk wrote: post #18

My problem with these health monitoring systems is similar to the problem the FDA had with 23andMe. It's one thing to collect data and present them in an easy to accessible way. But it is another to attempt to give out medical advice based on the data. How far are you planning on taking the data in terms of interpretation?

That's a great question. At this stage we are certainly not interested in becoming overtly "prescriptive" in any way. Our first focus is on providing a cool utility to avid health trackers to aggregate data from their apps and gadgets in one place.

Re: Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

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Post by dllthomas » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:35 PM UTC

daemonk wrote: post #18

My problem with these health monitoring systems is similar to the problem the FDA had with 23andMe. It's one thing to collect data and present them in an easy to accessible way. But it is another to attempt to give out medical advice based on the data. How far are you planning on taking the data in terms of interpretation?

I think the best call in most of these is to make it easy to interface with your doctor over. Might mean exposing yourself to more regulations, but seems like what would lead to the best outcomes.