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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?

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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!

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