Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life
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@ericflo built most of the backend and API powering this, and some of our other friends like @mirashii and @wingfield also helped build some of the features. Our investors have also been a huge help, from @semil getting us great deals on our hosting last week to @jyri helping us with legal issues and @hiten being a brilliant source of product inspiration. It's a team effort and everyone has contributed so much in the last 6 months.
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Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
I completely deleted my Facebook account a few weeks ago and quickly am realizing how far-reaching their monopoly already is.
This point alone - which doesn't even include the many, many privacy issues FB has - is enough for me to say I will not use a service that requires a FB login.
I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.
That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.
EDIT: And we've now got more workers!
https://medium.com/gyroscope-innovations/introducing-gyrosco...
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.
Designers who can engineer are a step ahead of everyone else IMO.
Would sign up in a second w/out fb login.
I hope there are plans to integrate data from Google Fit. I know my watch tracks my steps and heart rate, so it seems kind of redundant to get Moves for the former and not be able to use data I have for the latter.
Looking forward to playing with a real account once I get through the waitlist!
Also, I'm glad and impressed you guys are responding so quickly (I asked about FourSquare/Swarm on Twitter a little while ago).
Question: Moves (which I already use) tracks cycling and runs - why do I also need to link Runkeeper/Strava/Fitbit in addition? This appears to be redundant.
Other question: How do you get back into the "follow these steps" page once you've clicked away? The link on the front page has been replaced with a notification that i'll be emailed when my account is set up. (http://gyrosco.pe/setup/)
On the other hand, if you turned on Runkeeper or Strava and say you're going for a run, that's probably 99% reliably what you actually did.
Also I think the page you want is the dashboard: https://gyrosco.pe/dashboard/ - we are working on building a more intuitive global nav so people don't get lost.
We haven't automated the invite system yet and still have only sent out a few, but we plan to accelerate that process now. Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we get it right and everyone has a good experience.
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!
Regarding the opensource aspect, we are already working on Github but it is too early and hacky to be shown to other people.
Thanks for your answer!
I use Nike Running but it doesn't integrate with this.
Any recommendations between Strava and RunKeeper?
(I run and will be getting into cycling shortly.)
Thank you!!
https://mattstuehler.com/lab/NikePlus/selectMyRuns/
Download your files, unzip, then upload the GPX files directly to the app of your choice.
Enjoy :)
Their engineers make cool side projects [1] and release interesting new features regularly.
I wish there were more granular scopes so we could use just the metadata or timestamps, which is all we care about and not nearly as sensitive.
Also, please provide a way to cancel the account. :)
And you don't need to have all of the steps complete, just a majority of them. There isn't an exact threshold, we just want people to have a good experience and not start off by landing on a mostly empty page.
Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we don't break everything, but we're really excited to have everyone start using it as soon as possible and doing everything we can to make that happen quickly.
We're also doing multiple passes, starting with people who already have enough data connected, because we know they will have a great experience. If someone only has a few photos connected there and not much other data, we still have a lot more work left to do to give them a great experience.
Apply 3d perspective and rotate the parent/container element about the X axis ".container{perspective:400px; transform:rotateX(-45deg);}" (or maybe a positive 45deg)
Next, push the children forward along the Z axis ".child{transform: translate3d(0,0,100px);}"
Then, add transitions to the properties being changed, z-translate different amounts for different items in the stack, add some interactivity, and you're set.