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The site leaves some unanswered questions in the minds of users that might consider using it. If this is a free service, how do you plan to subsidize it if it
by neogodless 14y ago
The site leaves some unanswered questions in the minds of users that might consider using it.
If this is a free service, how do you plan to subsidize it if it becomes popular? Will your personal data remain private? Might the site stop working at some point without warning? Will you lose your data that you've entered?
Does the site work with other sites where you've tracked your weight, like MyFitnessPal, Nike+, Calorie Count, etc, at least for the purposes of importing data?
Will there be a community element of any kind for supporting each other? Will the site let you connect to other site APIs and export your weight if you log it and track it here?
- symkat 14y agoThose are some great points: The service is free and all functionality that's currently in it will remain free. I plan to subsidize it through affiliate advertising. Currently the links to the Aria scale are aff links that give me 12% of the sale. I prefer unobtrusive methods such as that, and more so it's a product I use and recommend. I wrote a site around getting the data from it. The first version supports importing weight data from LoseIT (only premium members of their site can export data), and FitBit (all users work through a pubsub channel and forced syncing if you're into that). MyFitnessPal, and Withings' Scale are both on my todo list. A community element will be added eventually with forums/friends, but it hasn't been a priority for this initial version. Exporting data also wasn't a priority at this stage, but will become one when people actually want to export data.