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 icebraining » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 11:38 AM UTC

vinchuco wrote: post #97

harlanlewis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

https://stallman.org/facebook.html

If you don't use Facebook for those reasons, you probably won't want to use a site like this either, though. I know I don't.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by kordless » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 11:40 AM UTC

pierotofy wrote: post #54

Very cool animations on the UI side. I'm one of those users that wouldn't trust to share all of that data though. Like others pointed out, maybe if there was the option to run it on your own infrastructure...

I second this opinion. We're getting ready to enter the era of being able to host our personal data on our own infrastructure. Let's start making that available with all offerings, instead of making these centralized hosted solutions that all require different types of access.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by chdir » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 11:55 AM UTC

Absolutely beautiful design. I wish I had the skills to design something like this.

As a user, it would be fun to look at your journaled life years from now. However, the skeptic in me thinks advertisers must be drooling at that much data. Also wondering what impact could it have on potential health insurance providers. Or perhaps one day big G or FB would swoop up all my data.

All that aside, congratulations on a fabulous job. I'd definitely give it a try someday. Please enable sign-up without FB.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by zample » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

Ahh amazing! We met one of the creators at Famo.us earlier in the year. He was truly inspirational and the css work he has done on April Zero is mind boggling.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 12:22 PM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #34

I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.

Personally if you're altering browser chrome you've gone too far - it's the users browser, not the web designers.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 12:32 PM UTC

PStamatiou wrote: post #91

Animats wrote: post #65

"Your phone already has all the sensors you need. Wearables like Fitbit or Apple Watch make your data more accurate. ... We integrate with all services you probably already use. Your page is automatically created without any manual entry. ... Through the Facebook account, we automatically load your profile photo, cover photo, date of birth, email address and time zone. ... We also load your list of friends to help yo…

Would prefer if you don't dox my roommate (anand) and I by publishing our address..

I'm not going to argue for keeping address details on here that you don't want up. However, publishing a business address isn't really "doxing" surely - business addresses should be public information I feel.

Interested in others take on this?

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by Nullabillity » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 1:23 PM UTC

cbhl wrote: post #90

egypturnash wrote: post #34

I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.

Can you actually grab it at all? I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.

Works fine for me.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by 4lejandrito » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

I have been working with a couple of friends on something like this for the last couple of weeks as a fun/side open source project.

It sucks when you see that there is no point on working on anything because it is or will already be made by someone else. I guess we will carry on just for the sake of doing it, learning and having fun.

Any advice on how to deal with this constant struggle with my motivation?

By the way, congrats to the guys, it is an awesome piece or work!

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by icebraining » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #116

PStamatiou wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would prefer if you don't dox my roommate (anand) and I by publishing our address..

I'm not going to argue for keeping address details on here that you don't want up. However, publishing a business address isn't really "doxing" surely - business addresses should be public information I feel. Interested in others take on this?

I agree. In fact, it is public information, in the SEC filling form, which any startup looking to raise capital must submit.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by chdir » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

4lejandrito wrote: post #118

I have been working with a couple of friends on something like this for the last couple of weeks as a fun/side open source project. It sucks when you see that there is no point on working on anything because it is or will already be made by someone else. I guess we will carry on just for the sake of doing it, learning and having fun. Any advice on how to deal with this constant struggle with my motivation? By the way…

A pre-cursor was launched almost 8 months ago [1] but perhaps you missed it. I can imagine looking at such a refined design and feeling like you can't measure up. But if you are really passionate about whatever your are developing, you'll find a niche. Moreover there's always room for more than 1 player and competition is good to shape up the landscape for everybody. If you share your open source project, you might get a lot better feedback and perhaps more contributors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203