My co-founder & I wanted to log our health ups and downs, with each other, with strangers dealing with similar problems & maybe even with medical professionals. We are very proud to share our brand new service - Instawell.<p>Instawell is an anonymous public network for sharing health issues and connecting with doctors.<p>You post an issue, track it, update it, and get simple feedback. You can invite a friend to share the issue, so you can both track something while remaining anonymous to everyone else. People can discover others dealing with the same issues and around them.<p>Instawell is offered as a service at https://api.instawell.com and as a web app at http://instawell.com. We are working to release our mobile web version next week, alongwith a private beta for our iOS + Android versions.<p>Get started with Instawell right away:<p>1: Create an identity<p>$ curl -ssl3 -k --data "email=your@emailhere.com&password=yourpass" https://api.instawell.com/v1/users<p>2: Share your symptoms<p>$ curl -ssl3 -k --data "mysymptoms=Feel Tired, Aching Head" --header "X-instawell-token: YOURTOKENHERE" https://api.instawell.com/v1/sets/<p>3: Track your sets<p>$ curl -ssl3 -k --header "X-instawell-token: YOURTOKENHERE" "https://api.instawell.com/v1/sets/"<p>4: Do more on the web app.<p>There's a lot of fun stuff we are working and very excited to hear back from the HN community. We <3 Terminal but there are other sample code on the Docs link as well.<p>Web - http://instawell.com
Docs - http://docs.instawellapiv1.apiary.io/
Blog - http://blog.instawell.com/post/53509254012/public-api<p>Share how you are feeling today :)
I'm wondering if this is a solution in search of a problem.<p>There isn't much point to casually browsing the site right now - I can see that someone else has achy feet, but I get no deeper insight; no comment explaining their situation nor comments from others that may have been similarly encumbered in the past.<p>Additionally, I only really share my health concerns with one person that isn't a doctor, and she lives with me.<p>The faces seem like a distraction when sharing anonymously. Many of them don't have an intuitive meaning, so I figure they're just for fun.<p>Also I couldn't figure out how to login or register on the site. I found out it's not actually required to share a health status, but since you listed it in the Show HN post, I looked around for it.<p>I do like the look and feel of the site - very straightforward and great colors, fonts, and design.
I wish I thought this were a good idea. Successful sites I have participated in started with being aimed at a particular diagnosis. I wish I thought this would work because it is clear to me that different diagnoses with symptoms in common often have related underlying causes. Unfortunately, this looks too nebulous to me. I hope I am wrong and I am routinely accused of erring in the opposite direction and making sites that are "too niche." But that's what it looks like to me.<p>PS Arguing with people who have given you feedback is not a great idea. It is a super common thing, but it really isn't a great idea.<p>Best of luck.