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Here's a serious idea. An SMS-based/ mobile app that will help me and my family encourage each other to work out. For example, when I come back for a run, I w

by ashishk 17y ago

Here's a serious idea. An SMS-based/ mobile app that will help me and my family encourage each other to work out. For example, when I come back for a run, I would text in "just ran 5 miles" and my parents and sister would get the text /email/ twitter update and perhaps be encouraged to exercise as well! Some other functionality could be showing me trends of my workouts (think Nike+ on iPhones) vis a vis my other family members, or SMS updates ("your son said you should go for a run!"). The problem is that people in this country are getting fatter every day, and could use motivation to work out. Support and ecouragement from family and friends might be the most effective source of motivation. Thoughts?

cousin_it 17y ago
That may be a good idea, but I live in Russia and practically no one around me is fat, so it'll be hard for me to muster the startup enthusiasm. :-) Anyway, thanks!
- ashishk 17y ago
  lol. yeah american lazyness is definitely unmatched at this point. maybe give Russia 25 more years =)
- dtf 17y ago
  Here's some useful marketing intelligence: http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/advertisingtochildren/promotion/issues/obesityratesworldwide/ http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/advertisingtochildren... Probably best to target the merely overweight than the hopelessly obese. In which case Russia (or perhaps more urgently my native England) actually looks like a fair bet!
prosa 17y ago
This is a neat idea. However, by enabling the user to post "just ran 5 miles" you are just duplicating the point of Twitter! More compelling, to me, is a site that scrapes your Twitterfeed for "<action verb: ran/biked/swam> <#> <miles/km>"-type posts, and tracks the data automatically through a website. You could increase your conversion rate through a bunch of neat hacks: 1. Using a script to scrape tweets like this and DM them once you have X datapoints charted, inviting them over 2. Allowing people to view their history without registering, just by going to http://<website>/<username&#62 http://<website>/<username> -- you could spider their tweet history on the fly
- ashishk 17y ago
  yeah i thought about that, but i dont want to spam my twitter followers. plus it just makes me look like a tool =)
  - prosa 17y ago
    Fair point!
gvb 17y ago
See Uladoo http://uladoo.com/ http://uladoo.com/ It was just blogged about at Atomic Object http://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/09/01/chart-your-life-with-uladoo-and-twitter http://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/09/01/chart-your-life-with... Edit: fix links. Arrgh!

by ashishk 17y ago

cousin_it 17y ago

That may be a good idea, but I live in Russia and practically no one around me is fat, so it'll be hard for me to muster the startup enthusiasm. :-) Anyway, thanks!

ashishk 17y ago
lol. yeah american lazyness is definitely unmatched at this point. maybe give Russia 25 more years =)
dtf 17y ago
Here's some useful marketing intelligence: http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/advertisingtochildren/promotion/issues/obesityratesworldwide/ http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/advertisingtochildren... Probably best to target the merely overweight than the hopelessly obese. In which case Russia (or perhaps more urgently my native England) actually looks like a fair bet!

prosa 17y ago

This is a neat idea. However, by enabling the user to post "just ran 5 miles" you are just duplicating the point of Twitter! More compelling, to me, is a site that scrapes your Twitterfeed for "<action verb: ran/biked/swam> <#> <miles/km>"-type posts, and tracks the data automatically through a website. You could increase your conversion rate through a bunch of neat hacks: 1. Using a script to scrape tweets like this and DM them once you have X datapoints charted, inviting them over 2. Allowing people to view their history without registering, just by going to http://<website>/<username&#62 http://<website>/<username> -- you could spider their tweet history on the fly

ashishk 17y ago
yeah i thought about that, but i dont want to spam my twitter followers. plus it just makes me look like a tool =)
- prosa 17y ago
  Fair point!

gvb 17y ago

See Uladoo http://uladoo.com/ http://uladoo.com/ It was just blogged about at Atomic Object http://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/09/01/chart-your-life-with-uladoo-and-twitter http://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/09/01/chart-your-life-with... Edit: fix links. Arrgh!