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Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#21

I 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?

I don't have a Facebook account.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#22
post #17

502 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.

Our worker processes are overloaded at the moment, working on spinning more up right now.

EDIT: And we've now got more workers!

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#24

Hey @aprilzero what was the backend stack you went with to build something like this? Just curious :)

He wrote a couple of articles about how he build the service for himself and it used Python with Django so it's safe to assume he stuck with that stack https://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero/ (he's whole site seems to be down now, perhaps the HN effect)

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#25

Hey @aprilzero what was the backend stack you went with to build something like this? Just curious :)

We've split the backend into a service layer written in Go, a data fetching and processing layer also written in Go, and a web layer written in Python/Coffeescript. We use Kafka to connect a lot of the pieces together, and data is stored in PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#26

Hey @aprilzero what was the backend stack you went with to build something like this? Just curious :)

@ericflo will probably pop by and answer a little bit more, but the major pieces are a golang powered API stack, a Django app that consumes that API stack and does all the template rendering and such, and a lot of background workers based around Kafka/Storm to pull the data from the third party services. @aprilzero can certainly talk more about the frontend stack.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#27

I 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?

This really is a stupid assumption. Yes there are people who actually don't want Facebook for reasons other than privacy.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#29
post #15

This is displaying all of my health data on a sexy website? Hmm.

It actually shows more than health data, it's like a personal dashboard for your activity, may it be physical (fitbit, jawbone and so on) or digital (instagram, twitter, foursquare)

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Sorry, the site is under heavy load right now but should get faster soon. We process the data and store the results in our database.
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