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Ask YC: Feedback on a way to measure and discover links between your daily activities.

14 points by mwerty 18y ago

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mwerty 18y ago
Some sample experiments being recorded currently: Weight lifting and Swimming - Does swimming a few laps in the pool at high intensity immediately after weight lifting help build and maintain muscle mass? Food & Alcohol - Which foods hold alcohol the best? We've been curious about these and many other things. We started bricolagelabs as a place to record your observations and perform "experiments". these could be anything - productivity when you wake up early/late/ pickup lines/ whatever. It's related to Seth Roberts' (Shangri La diet) self-experimentation with the goal of aiding discovery through trial and error. Would love to get news.yc feedback on this. Thanks!
- Tichy 18y ago
  I am very interested in this, as I have a similar project on my TODO list. I can not figure out how your page works, though. All I see is some blog articles on "we did experiment x". Do I have to sign up somewhere?
  - mwerty 18y ago
    Thanks. I should probably put the signup button next to the login fields. You can signup here: http://www.bricolagelabs.com/signup http://www.bricolagelabs.com/signup
    - indigoviolet 18y ago
      This is the perfect idea for using facebook connect, or to make an app for.
      - mwerty 18y ago
        I thought about it but facebook seems the wrong context for this. When I go to facebook, I'm usually bored and this does not satisfy that need.
- breck 18y ago
  Great job. I've actually been working in this space for about 2 years. It's an interesting development and people are tackling it from a number of angles. It seems your approach is more descriptive than numerical. That could be good, a lot of the recent players are more numbers oriented which may turn off most users. For a good summary of the field, Google "Me-trics", who presented at TC50. You'll find a lot of the competitors listed on various posts discussing Me-trics. I think the personal analytics/crowd-sourced-research-experiment space is set for solid growth in the coming years. I've tried a number of different UI's and a number of different techniques to mining the data. I don't think the market is quite there yet, so I'm doing these things on the side until I have the money and technology ready to focus on it. Anytime you want to chat about it, shoot me an email.
  - mwerty 18y ago
    Useful pointer. thx a lot! I'll be in touch.

14 points by mwerty 18y ago

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Some sample experiments being recorded currently: Weight lifting and Swimming - Does swimming a few laps in the pool at high intensity immediately after weight lifting help build and maintain muscle mass? Food & Alcohol - Which foods hold alcohol the best? We've been curious about these and many other things. We started bricolagelabs as a place to record your observations and perform "experiments". these could be anything - productivity when you wake up early/late/ pickup lines/ whatever. It's related to Seth Roberts' (Shangri La diet) self-experimentation with the goal of aiding discovery through trial and error. Would love to get news.yc feedback on this. Thanks!

Tichy 18y ago
I am very interested in this, as I have a similar project on my TODO list. I can not figure out how your page works, though. All I see is some blog articles on "we did experiment x". Do I have to sign up somewhere?
- mwerty 18y ago
  Thanks. I should probably put the signup button next to the login fields. You can signup here: http://www.bricolagelabs.com/signup http://www.bricolagelabs.com/signup
  - indigoviolet 18y ago
    This is the perfect idea for using facebook connect, or to make an app for.
    - mwerty 18y ago
      I thought about it but facebook seems the wrong context for this. When I go to facebook, I'm usually bored and this does not satisfy that need.
breck 18y ago
Great job. I've actually been working in this space for about 2 years. It's an interesting development and people are tackling it from a number of angles. It seems your approach is more descriptive than numerical. That could be good, a lot of the recent players are more numbers oriented which may turn off most users. For a good summary of the field, Google "Me-trics", who presented at TC50. You'll find a lot of the competitors listed on various posts discussing Me-trics. I think the personal analytics/crowd-sourced-research-experiment space is set for solid growth in the coming years. I've tried a number of different UI's and a number of different techniques to mining the data. I don't think the market is quite there yet, so I'm doing these things on the side until I have the money and technology ready to focus on it. Anytime you want to chat about it, shoot me an email.
- mwerty 18y ago
  Useful pointer. thx a lot! I'll be in touch.