Anand Sharma

Gyroscope Chrome Extension - Get your latest health stats from Gyroscope in a new tab

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Anand Sharma
A lot of people think Gyroscope is about nice graphs or visualizations. Or perhaps that we make apps to store health data. But the real products we're creating are motivation and awareness. Many people have trackers that are storing this data, but without easy access and constant awareness of it, there isn't any positive impact in your life. The Gyroscope app has gone a long way to help make your stats easily accessible and always in your pocket. This Chrome extension takes that even further, bringing the same reporting and leaderboard from the app to your new tab screen. I open new browser windows constantly throughout the day, and it's really cool to be constantly reminded of my progress throughout the day. Like the site, there are a couple themes available depending on what you care about. The first theme is called Motivation. It is a new and improved version of the original age counter on April Zero. It shows a realtime age counter — some people love it, while others may find it a bit too frightening. The second theme is called Awareness, showing the overview of all your data found on the dashboard. Steps from the iPhone app will show here, as well as other stats like your last location, heart rate or weight. Once you add friends on Gyroscope, their steps for the day will also show up in your leaderboard. Let us know what you think and which theme you prefer!
Daniel Singer
YAS. only issue is my FB age is incorrect so while I turn 17 today, I am 18 on gyroscope lol.
Anand Sharma
@danielsing3r happy birthday! If you update anything upstream it should sync pretty instantly too
Benno
i'm using gyroscope for about a year now and it's really great. as a chrome user spending a lot of time in the browser this extension is great. seeing how you perform compared to your friends is a good incentive to walk more after work :)
Théo Blochet
I love the web and mobile apps, glad to see this added to the family. Will add it to the "new tabs" extension I shuffle through every time I open a tab. One minor detail bothers me a bit though : the "leaderboard" is currently not always an accurate representation of whom is most active on a particular day, because of timezones. My friends on the east coast are always ahead of me for my whole morning in Europe, even if they have the laziest day and I didn't 😁
Elizabeth
A no brainer - immediately installed - killin that UX, keep it up! @gyroscope_app @aprilzero
aliou
I love this! I wish I could get more friends to use it but they're bummed that you need to connect to Facebook. Will it be possible to connect some other way in the future?
Anand Sharma
@aliouftw maybe in the future, yes
Alexandre Mouriec
Great job @myusuf3 @aprilzero !!! 👍 Perfect to see my data everyday as I began recently using Gyroscope more. Can't wait to the Android app because that's why I am not thinking of going Pro atm.