Any chance you could integrate with the Sleep Cycle app?
Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living
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#22Any chance you could integrate with the Sleep Cycle app?
Yes absolutely, we have reached out to them but haven't heard anything back yet unfortunately.
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#23We are attempting to aggregate and index people's health tracking data using our proprietary algorithm into one healthy living score. Would love feedback on UX as well as general concept. Thank you, Mac
Hey Mac - great looking stuff. The marketability of a single healthy living score is pretty clear, but isn't it a fairly artificial and opaque approach to making an actual measurement? The measures inherent to the donut chart-y UI element that's part of your site's hero loop (appears to be hydration, nutrition, sleep, activity) looks more useful to me than the single score.
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#24Awesome work. I have been working on an open source API to accomplish similar things (specifically just re: aggregation of data from disparate sources): https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify It's Rails + Postgres, and so far aggregates meal, weight, and sleep data from Withings and Fitbit - but I've been focussed on building out a framework to easily aggregate many, many more sources. Maybe we could find a project to…
I believe Tictrac (https://www.tictrac.com/) is working on a similar system
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#25We are attempting to aggregate and index people's health tracking data using our proprietary algorithm into one healthy living score. Would love feedback on UX as well as general concept. Thank you, Mac
Hey Mac - great looking stuff. The marketability of a single healthy living score is pretty clear, but isn't it a fairly artificial and opaque approach to making an actual measurement? The measures inherent to the donut chart-y UI element that's part of your site's hero loop (appears to be hydration, nutrition, sleep, activity) looks more useful to me than the single score.
I think to an individual at the moment the segments MAY be more useful than the metric itself; however, the value of the metric becomes more apparent when comparing individuals or populations. I know I get really excited about the prospect of being able to better index cities, states, etc. That is really interesting observation though.
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#26May be a small matter, but I feel the slogan "nudge yourself" to be a little ... odd. "Give yourself a nudge" sounds better to me. YMMV
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#27Awesome work. I have been working on an open source API to accomplish similar things (specifically just re: aggregation of data from disparate sources): https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify It's Rails + Postgres, and so far aggregates meal, weight, and sleep data from Withings and Fitbit - but I've been focussed on building out a framework to easily aggregate many, many more sources. Maybe we could find a project to…
I believe Tictrac ( https://www.tictrac.com/ ) is working on a similar system
Yeah there are some great platforms out there like TicTrac and Runkeeper but the value in our platform is certainly going to be the algorithm. Aggregating data for personal use is something those companies are doing well, but we thought there was an interesting niche in regards to quantified selfers being able to compare each other, independent of lifestyles or tracking applications.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Mac - great looking stuff. The marketability of a single healthy living score is pretty clear, but isn't it a fairly artificial and opaque approach to making an actual measurement? The measures inherent to the donut chart-y UI element that's part of your site's hero loop (appears to be hydration, nutrition, sleep, activity) looks more useful to me than the single score.
I think to an individual at the moment the segments MAY be more useful than the metric itself; however, the value of the metric becomes more apparent when comparing individuals or populations. I know I get really excited about the prospect of being able to better index cities, states, etc. That is really interesting observation though.
The "metric" in this case is a score contrived using your proprietary algorithm. The value I read you describing appears more relevant to you/others interested in measuring populations. It doesn't seem especially helpful to the individual. To imagine one person say, "hey, I'm a 41, you're a 36" sounds like personal vanity metrics.
It's like two people comparing their BMIs - it doesn't tell a lot. I do see your app being potentially _very_ valuable in being able to tell individuals when their behaviors are or are not in line with vetted guidelines, or _nudge_ (heyo!) them to do healthful things at a rhythm in line with their best days.
I once worked on a payments platform whose viability depended on mass adoption. One of the reasons we failed, I believe, was due to being more focused on feeding data to merchants and banks vs. providing value to the consumers who were the actual ultimate hurdle to adoption.
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#29You're doing something right. I have never been so well hydrated than when I used Nudge in an inter-office competition.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think to an individual at the moment the segments MAY be more useful than the metric itself; however, the value of the metric becomes more apparent when comparing individuals or populations. I know I get really excited about the prospect of being able to better index cities, states, etc. That is really interesting observation though.
The "metric" in this case is a score contrived using your proprietary algorithm. The value I read you describing appears more relevant to you/others interested in measuring populations. It doesn't seem especially helpful to the individual. To imagine one person say, "hey, I'm a 41, you're a 36" sounds like personal vanity metrics. It's like two people comparing their BMIs - it doesn't tell a lot. I do see your app be…
Yeah that is a great point. Funny enough, the original platform we launched about 18 months ago was geared exclusively for corporate wellness, but after reading the market we realized there was a significant niche here in comparison amongst friends using different tracking applications.
I say all this because I think we realized even B2B platforms need to have consumer appeal to be successful. I think once we are able to integrate more platform and build and more social hooks, it will be more appealing to users. Love your feedback though - think you have some wonderful points.