Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life • Hacker News Board

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by serf » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:23 PM UTC

harlanlewis wrote: post #7

AbeEstrada wrote: post #4

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?

Let's not just assume the parent of your comment thinks Facebook is untrustworthy; how about if someone (like me, for example) just doesn't have a Facebook account?

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by mimetic2 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC

I never ever login or vote or whatever but I've been looking for something like this forever. I was thinking about doing this myself for such a long time. This is amazing.

+1 goodreads integration.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by aprilzero » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:26 PM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #11

ehmorris wrote: post #8

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.

I made the April Zero site by myself, but Gyroscope has been a massive undertaking with many people involved.

@ericflo built most of the backend and API powering this, and some of our other friends like @mirashii and @wingfield also helped build some of the features. Our investors have also been a huge help, from @semil getting us great deals on our hosting last week to @jyri helping us with legal issues and @hiten being a brilliant source of product inspiration. It's a team effort and everyone has contributed so much in the last 6 months.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by aprilzero » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:28 PM UTC

tabrischen wrote: post #36

Dear @aprilzero, I'm loving the dashboard. Hope you can add in more integration with other services, like kanbanflow for productivity (it comes with a nifty pomodoro timer) and miband for fitness.

Thanks! There are so many more integrations we are excited to start using, can't get to them fast enough. PS: We're hiring :)

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by Jemaclus » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:32 PM UTC

It says there are 5 steps, with the first four steps containing free apps, and the 5th step containing an integration to RescueTime, which appears to cost money. I don't particularly want RescueTime. Am I just going to be on the "waiting list" forever, then?

Also, please provide a way to cancel the account. :)

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by jarnix » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:33 PM UTC

It seems beautiful etc and fun to watch from time to time but what is the use of gyroscope ? What will it do for me ?

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by seanodonnell » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:34 PM UTC

harlanlewis wrote: post #7

AbeEstrada wrote: post #4

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 would have signed up via facebook, but then I noticed they wanted my friends list. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by gkoberger » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:44 PM UTC

camdenre wrote: post #2

That is a very fancy website. I envy your web developer's front end skills.

By "your web developer's", I think you mean "your" :) Gyroscope was created by Anand Sharma, who did all the design AND front end development.

https://medium.com/gyroscope-innovations/introducing-gyrosco...

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by Karunamon » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

I really like the design of this site!

Question: Moves (which I already use) tracks cycling and runs - why do I also need to link Runkeeper/Strava/Fitbit in addition? This appears to be redundant.

Other question: How do you get back into the "follow these steps" page once you've clicked away? The link on the front page has been replaced with a notification that i'll be emailed when my account is set up. (http://gyrosco.pe/setup/)

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by aprilzero » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:51 PM UTC

Jemaclus wrote: post #45

It says there are 5 steps, with the first four steps containing free apps, and the 5th step containing an integration to RescueTime, which appears to cost money. I don't particularly want RescueTime. Am I just going to be on the "waiting list" forever, then? Also, please provide a way to cancel the account. :)

Rescuetime is free. They have a paid upgrade but you don't need it.

And you don't need to have all of the steps complete, just a majority of them. There isn't an exact threshold, we just want people to have a good experience and not start off by landing on a mostly empty page.