Gyroscope - A new OS for the human body

@aprilzero This is really cool. I've thought about building this kind of thing before and you've hit it pretty well on the head. I hope it keeps improving and I'm sure it will. If this can continue to interact beautifully with more and more external services, it could become a big part of one's personal identity. Please don't sell to Facebook or Google.

@aprilzero Great work, dude. Nice job. Seeing your design work over the years has resulted in me being absolutely unsurprised by the polish and pleasantness of what you've built. Excited for you :-D

The "ProductHunt specials" game is so strong! Beautifully done, @aprilzero

@rrhoover Thanks Ryan! I wrote a little bit about what inspired me to first start April Zero for myself — http://aprilzero.com/journal/mak... — basically a combination of wanting a better way to share my travels, a diary for myself, and wanting to improve various aspects of my health like my Vitamin D and running speed, etc. The Feltron Annual Reports were also a huge inspiration. They're at http://feltron.com and if anyone hasn't seen them, yet you should check it out. He spends a lot of time each year collecting all this data and designing it into this beautiful report. I did a lot of experimentation while building April Zero, and realized the only thing that really worked for me personally was when stuff was 100% automatic. I didn't want to be entering stuff in every day or doing any work to make my site run. Once I figured out some of the ways to make that happen, it started to feel really magical — things like automatically using RescueTime data, or a wifi scale that just works when I step on it, Moves knowing when I go to the coffee shop down the street & when I get back home, automatically loading my Instagram photos that I was posting anyways. Once I started using this, I found it way easier to understand what I had been doing, look back at the last week to see how healthy I had been, how much work I had gotten done, and make better decisions based on that. Now we've taken that even one step further with our weekly reports — http://new.aprilzero.com/week/ is mine — and that seems to be the perfect timeframe for thinking about these kinds of things. For example I can see last week I didn't get nearly enough steps and mostly was just on my computer, so next week I'm going to try to go out and walk around more to counteract that. A lot of other people have also told me they've found it motivating, and have been running more regularly or been more healthy now that they can see it on their page, which is so awesome to hear and exactly what we had been hoping for. The health and balance aspect is probably the most important, but I also just really like the idea that the places I go and the things I do are being saved so I can revisit them later. I think of like a real-life version of Dumbledore's pensieve, where I can go back and re-live any moment of my life from the past year. Sometimes when I get nostalgic I'll look up when I went to Japan or the week I went diving in Thailand, and I'm so glad those got saved. Here is one of those weeks, for example: http://new.aprilzero.com/week/ju...

@rrhoover @aprilzero I don't really check in on Foursquare anymore, but sometimes I do tag locations in Twitter, or Facebook/Instagram photos. Any plans to add those as location sources as well? Looks like Twitter and IG take a while to sync, I'm excited to come back and see what those look like.

@staringispolite Yep, we have lots of plans to keep expanding what we integrate with. Twitter actually just announced today that their location tagging will be Foursquare soon, so that is very exciting for us and a potential source of great data that works with what we've already got. A lot of the importers got delayed when so many people signed up (why we usually have the waitlist) so it might take a while, but hopefully everything will be loaded by tomorrow and you'll be able to start playing with it.

@aaroncrocco A lot of the services (Instagram, Moves) are Facebook. It is not like he has to support every login service. :)

@joshdance Oh I totally understand that but this is an instant roadblock to checking out the service. Even a Twitter or Email registration would be fine. This is all or nothing, which can turn away many users or be impossible to use for people like me who don't use Facebook. Either way, the front page looks pretty cool. :-)

I agree that this is a roadblock. I'd much prefer to create a login, as I don't really use/trust Facebook.

@jeremiahlee it's a dealbreaker for me too. Feels like I'm seeing more and more of this.

@lehrjulian hey you should also check out Instant too, it lifelogs some data on your Android smartphone - http://www.producthunt.com/posts...

@gigitsui Thanks Gigi. Metric system is coming very soon. I worked on adding most of settings for it this weekend and hope to put it up as an option within a couple days. It is one of our most requested features right now — https://gyrosco.pe/requests/ Hadn't considered stones before, but will try to also add that as a setting as well!

@gigitsui @aprilzero I really liked the requests page. Fun to see what others are voting on and have the chance to influence product direction.

@joshdance Thanks! It's not exactly a democracy but seeing what people are excited about has definitely influenced our roadmap and helped us realize what is a big deal to our users. For example, we just listed Goodreads yesterday and it already has 39 votes! It is also cool to be able to go back and message the people who asked for a feature and tell them we now have it.

@joshpuetz I even signed up and connected a Moves account and it still has me locked out (including on "Digital" despite connecting Twitter/Instagram). I'm hoping this is just a temporary issue

@kokev Sorry about that! Some of our importing seems to be backed up from so many people signing up, hoping to get everyone's profiles powered by the end of day. If it's still not working by later today, let me know and we'll figure out how to get that fixed.

@aprilzero @jannis So glad to hear this question, actually we're working on an ingestion API but it's not quite ready for general consumption yet. If you're interested, we could give you early access -- shoot me an e-mail eric@gyrosco.pe. Anyone else who's interested in that API please get in touch as well!

@ericflo Emailed you :)

@dalequi No solid date yet but it's definitely one of our top priorities. It will be part of our upcoming iOS app.

@davemorin Thanks Dave! So glad to have you using it.

@jscheel Strava and Runkeeper have excellent API's. We haven't tried MapMyRide yet, but we had to pick just a few services to start off with so we went with the ones we use regularly. You can request or vote for what we should add next at https://gyrosco.pe/requests/

@aprilzero awesome. I was just curious, as I've seen several startups go with those over others. Developer friendliness is so important.

@joshuaoxj Thanks! Lots of integrations we're excited about in the future, Heyday is one of them once they have an API. Btw, their founder Siqi is also one of our investors.

@aprilzero Great! Could you add that to the requests page? I don't see it there now. Haha. I'd vote for that! Love that your design was inspired by Ironman.