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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

#71

I created an account a while ago, but it still just shows "we'll email you when your account is ready" - am I missing something?

We haven't fully launched yet - we've started sending out invites as we slowly scale up to everyone. But we just updated our site with more details about Gyroscope and are starting to accelerate that process now.

Thanks - look forward to it!

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is awesome. Congrats on the launch Flo :)

Oh hi Erik, cool to see you here and thanks! Haven't seen you in way too long.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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I signed up for "early access" ages ago and I still haven't been granted access, while it sounds many here are signing up and getting straight in?

Sorry about that. I don't think many people here are getting straight in, I imagine they're commenting on the homepage and the pages that other users have made publicly viewable.

We haven't automated the invite system yet and still have only sent out a few, but we plan to accelerate that process now. Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we get it right and everyone has a good experience.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#77

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://gyro…

Moves does theoretically track that stuff, but it is not reliable enough. For example, walking quickly or being in a car often ends up being considered cycling for half a block.

On the other hand, if you turned on Runkeeper or Strava and say you're going for a run, that's probably 99% reliably what you actually did.

Also I think the page you want is the dashboard: https://gyrosco.pe/dashboard/ - we are working on building a more intuitive global nav so people don't get lost.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#78
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I'm OK with the personal data but it doesn't seem to be good idea to allow you to access my private repos in Github.

Yeah that makes sense. We've started to switch more towards things like Rescuetime for that information, since the github auth options are very all or nothing.

I wish there were more granular scopes so we could use just the metadata or timestamps, which is all we care about and not nearly as sensitive.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

#79

It'd be great to have some indication of how long the waiting list is.

We just added that information to the top of our about page: https://gyrosco.pe/about/

Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we don't break everything, but we're really excited to have everyone start using it as soon as possible and doing everything we can to make that happen quickly.

We're also doing multiple passes, starting with people who already have enough data connected, because we know they will have a great experience. If someone only has a few photos connected there and not much other data, we still have a lot more work left to do to give them a great experience.

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