I really like the idea of tracking myself (e.g. books read, weight, steps taken etc.), but as a hacker I'd never let anyone else hold this data. I mean, Facebook is one thing, but highly personal details about my personality is another thing.<p>That said - it would be cool to see something like this open sources. Currently I'm using excel to track most of the stuff I'm interested in, but I know that there must be a better alternative.
By the way, the site's running entirely on a single ec2 micro instance (nginx, redis, posgres and go). I'm curious to see if my optimizations pay off and if it can continue to handle the HackerNews traffic.
That's crazy, I've been developing something very similar for personal use: <a href="http://rcrd.org/" rel="nofollow">http://rcrd.org/</a>
This is executed very well. I love the natural language processing for diary entries.<p>However I think you need to change your pitch if you want more incoming traffic. At the moment this has an aura of creepiness and vainness to me and no chance of SEO (who googles for "track every moment of my glorious life in detail"?). You should configure this for whitelabelling and create a version for different markets.<p>This is just one idea because I knoe my wife would love it:<p>Dieters to track calories eaten each day and exercise done. Would be awesome to see energy counts of food eaten vs energy consumed by exercise done - maybe like a weekly comparison of energy in and out.
For privacy concerns you could store the keys (i.e. sleep, running) locally with identifiers to retrieve the values (i.e. hours, kilos) from your database and display/handle them in your app. This way the user keeps track of what exactly is being journaled. Of course, this brings along several other problems like data preservation (local storage).