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Comment by ngoel36 | Hacker News Reader

This is so cool. Somebody should turn this into a platform - a mobile app that at least helps you record the stats you want, paired with an API platform that lets you grant and request permission for other "personal APIs".

Then other API calls can be built on top of individual people - College students in the US, citizens of India, etc. The possibilities are pretty endless.

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The Biggest Loser - play along at home! Be the "biggest loser" in [your region] to [acquire swag], etc.

Sorry, maybe I'm being a bit facetious. There's definitely a lot of cool stuff that could be done with a personal API though. But how do you get people on-board? You have to have equipment to track/update stats right? Are people willing to buy into this potential network?

If Fitbit and all of those types of companies start having Export APIs a service could have wrapper around all of them. Then anyone with one of those devices could join easily. Could be the way to start, since you definitely don't want to be building the hardware and API altogether for an MVP.

Do you think people might spend a million in the next year on weight loss? Then do this!

I'll bet you could get a lot of this information from something like FitBit.

True. But fitbit can only give health related data - what if one wants to track multiple things in his/her life - finance, health, food habits etc

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