Ah so this is the consumer version of the http://aprilzero.com site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203
I think it's made by the same person.
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#12Ah so this is the consumer version of the http://aprilzero.com site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203
Yep! Took a while to figure out an elegant setup process and generalize the design but we're finally getting close
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#13Ah so this is the consumer version of the http://aprilzero.com site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203
Yep! Took a while to figure out an elegant setup process and generalize the design but we're finally getting close
It's taking a while to connect to everything, but I'm really pumped to see my data in this interface. I've been working on something similar — an automatic journal based on Moves/Instagram/Dropbox etc. One reason I'm scared to publish is data security — are you storing any of this data, or pulling from 4+ APIs every page load?
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#15This is displaying all of my health data on a sexy website? Hmm.
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#16In Linux Firefox the 3d rotations are aliased and ugly. Could you just give us a normal web page? This web site has all the problems of bad flash websites but built in JavaScript.
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#17502 bad gateway :(
That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.
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#18I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.
Common plight these days. I've considered making throwaway facebook profiles for these sorts of things before, but there's got to be a better solution.
Why wouldn't you make a throwaway Facebook profile? My Facebook account was initially created as my legitimate account, but now I treat it as essentially a throwaway. It makes logging in to most random little sites extremely handy, and I see no measurable downside.
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#19Hey @aprilzero what was the backend stack you went with to build something like this? Just curious :)
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#20I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
It isn't about being untrustworthy: I don't use Facebook, I use many other things but not Facebook. If he has the code to handle Facebook logins, he has the code to handle Google logins as well.