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Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by thinkdevcode »

katieben wrote: post #19
katieben wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there - I'll be showing stories of all kinds, though right now I just don't have that much data so the code is pulling everything. I need more stories! If you guys have a story of your own or know anyone, please submit or send them my way! :)

(and I'm in a similar boat too). I'm already healthy, but just want flat abs - I started this tool because I wanted to get a better idea of what I had to do to get that - how much weight to lose, or if I needed to be building muscle and not losing weight. I'm on MyFitnessPal, and a lot of women seemed to have that question. Working to get all types in here!

Weight is pretty much a useless metric if you are already slim and want to find out when you are going to start seeing definition (like your abdominals for example). Body Fat % is really the only indicator for that and even then it is hit or miss as it depends on the elasticity of the persons skin (like if they just lost 100 lb''s they'll have a ton of excess skin covering their abs). Cool site, i'd just like to see BF% instead of weight.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by codebeaker »

Way to exclude mainland Europe through your short-sighted decision to use Imperial units.

There's simply no valid reason (and hacked in a weekend doesn't cut it) to store units in Imperial, let me choose, as as an engineer I abhor laziness in building such sites, in 2012, more than ever I18n and L17n are more important than ever, even within sites only offered in English language.

(plus the maths on converting weights is more sane with metric units, I just don't get it)

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by DirtyAndy »

codebeaker wrote: post #23

Way to exclude mainland Europe through your short-sighted decision to use Imperial units. There's simply no valid reason (and hacked in a weekend doesn't cut it) to store units in Imperial, let me choose, as as an engineer I abhor laziness in building such sites, in 2012, more than ever I18n and L17n are more important than ever, even within sites only offered in English language. (plus the maths on converting weight…

I would say the developer has thought about their own requirements and knowledge, much like you have in your comment by thinking only of Europe whereas pretty much every other country/region in the world uses metric.

Whilst creating an application that deals with different units is not a massive amount of extra work, launching a minimal viable product to 300 million people in a country that has a major obesity problem is probably not a bad start. And when I say not a lot of extra work, 2-4 hours depending on experience of units, server side and client side, data store, would be very optimistic, hundreds if you are moving towards a more complex project. Quite a bit on top of what was only a weekend project.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by pvidler »

DirtyAndy wrote: post #24
codebeaker wrote: post #23

Way to exclude mainland Europe through your short-sighted decision to use Imperial units. There's simply no valid reason (and hacked in a weekend doesn't cut it) to store units in Imperial, let me choose, as as an engineer I abhor laziness in building such sites, in 2012, more than ever I18n and L17n are more important than ever, even within sites only offered in English language. (plus the maths on converting weight…

I would say the developer has thought about their own requirements and knowledge, much like you have in your comment by thinking only of Europe whereas pretty much every other country/region in the world uses metric. Whilst creating an application that deals with different units is not a massive amount of extra work, launching a minimal viable product to 300 million people in a country that has a major obesity proble…

Europe does use the metric system, it's presumably the developer that doesn't (in terms of countries, just the US and sometimes the UK?). Really, supporting metric and imperial should be trivial — minutes rather than hours.

The issue I see is that you aren't going to get publicity like this twice. "We now support metric" isn't news that will show up on my radar in the same way that this announcement did; how many will bookmark this and check back later, if it doesn't work for them now?

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by apricot13 »

I LOVE this, seeing before/after photos is the most motivating part of dieting, for me at least!

You should include a dropdown that says whether they used a specific type of diet, 'healthy eating & exercise', 'atkins', 'weightwatchers', 'dukan', 'cabbage soup' ! it would be quite interesting to see the results.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by katieben »

pvidler wrote: post #25
DirtyAndy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say the developer has thought about their own requirements and knowledge, much like you have in your comment by thinking only of Europe whereas pretty much every other country/region in the world uses metric. Whilst creating an application that deals with different units is not a massive amount of extra work, launching a minimal viable product to 300 million people in a country that has a major obesity proble…

Europe does use the metric system, it's presumably the developer that doesn't (in terms of countries, just the US and sometimes the UK?). Really, supporting metric and imperial should be trivial — minutes rather than hours. The issue I see is that you aren't going to get publicity like this twice. "We now support metric" isn't news that will show up on my radar in the same way that this announcement did; how many wil…

"We Now Support Metric!" :) Haha, just added it in about 15 minutes. Currently working on getting the user's location by IP address. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by DanBC »

katieben wrote: post #27
pvidler wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europe does use the metric system, it's presumably the developer that doesn't (in terms of countries, just the US and sometimes the UK?). Really, supporting metric and imperial should be trivial — minutes rather than hours. The issue I see is that you aren't going to get publicity like this twice. "We now support metric" isn't news that will show up on my radar in the same way that this announcement did; how many wil…

"We Now Support Metric!" :) Haha, just added it in about 15 minutes. Currently working on getting the user's location by IP address. Thanks for the feedback.

Be aware that some people in the UK want stones and pounds, with feet and inches. But others (me) would like kg and cm. So please make it an option that I can chose, even if you try to guess what I want from my IP.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by katieben »

DanBC wrote: post #28
katieben wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We Now Support Metric!" :) Haha, just added it in about 15 minutes. Currently working on getting the user's location by IP address. Thanks for the feedback.

Be aware that some people in the UK want stones and pounds, with feet and inches. But others (me) would like kg and cm. So please make it an option that I can chose, even if you try to guess what I want from my IP.

Okay, cool - thanks so much for the feedback.

Re: Weekend Project: VisualizeFit.com

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Post by katieben »

apricot13 wrote: post #26

I LOVE this, seeing before/after photos is the most motivating part of dieting, for me at least! You should include a dropdown that says whether they used a specific type of diet, 'healthy eating & exercise', 'atkins', 'weightwatchers', 'dukan', 'cabbage soup' ! it would be quite interesting to see the results.

Thanks! Thanks for the feedback! :) Haha, I love your idea, that's awesome - I'll do that. :) Thanks!
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