Ask HN: Feedback on Fitness Competition Site for Groups [Demo Log-In Only]
How it works is I bought a scale and put it at the church. The competition is a point system where at the end of the 12 weeks whoever has the highest number of points wins. Every week at church we also show leaderboards (everyone's weight is private to the individual). You gain points by
1) 1% weight loss (50 points). This is based on your initial weight and you weight in at the end of the week.
2) 1,000 steps (1 point)
3) Bonus challenges
We also have bonus challenges for the week where if they accomplish the goal they get bonus points. An example challenge is that eating no chips for the week will give you 200 points. Also the whole system is on an honor system.
I originally planned just to keep the site for the church only, but with people actually being engaged and competitive I wanted to see what kind of interest this kind of site is to the HN community or if it is worth bringing out to a bigger scale to the wider community.
I created a copy of the site and you can log-in as the top leaderboard user here (data has been made anonymous) :
https://fitness-comp.herokuapp.com/
Click 'Login'
username: hn@hn.com
password: hackernews
(my only request is try not to muck with too much of the data to let everyone else see how it works).