From Fat Duckling, To Majestic Swan…
In the last 3 months I have put on almost 1.5 stone. It is time to knuckle down and do something about it. Being a geek, the best way I know to do this properly is to build a webapp to help me track my progress. I have been working on a small app called TWEET MY WEIGHT. The system works by signing up for an account on the website www.tweetmyweight.com and entering in your details including your twitter name. Once you are signed up, each time you weigh yourself you can tweet the results to @myweight and TMW will scrape this information and build a sexy graph enabling you to track your progress. The graph is available via the website or as a small widget you can post on any website or social network. The basic system is built and working but before launch I am hoping to add more features, such as:
- Weekly progress reports sent to you via Twitter.
- Reminders if you stop reporting progress via Twitter.
- A leader board tracking the most successful users.
Hopefully I should have a beta open and available for registrations in a few weeks. Watch this space.
Update: Funnily enough someone sent me a link to a blog entry posted on Lifehacker today. It seems someone has already discovered Twitter can help dieters. Hopefully TMW should help people just like this as (I hope) it will me. Bye bye belly…
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