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Show DEV: I built a dashboard to track my life

Craig Carlyle on March 15, 2020

tl;dr check it out at http://craigcarlyle.me A Quick Intro Several years ago I started on a weight loss and health journey. I was intro...
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Liyas Thomas

Site looks awesome!
Are you planning on open sourcing the project?

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Craig Carlyle

Thanks!

Yes, that's the plan. I need to do some cleanup and write some tests first, but I'll be publishing it to my GitHub account.

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Liyas Thomas

Awesome 🤩
Kudus to the project!

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Mike Rubini 🇮🇹

Great job! Keep us posted! Can't wait to try it myself 🚀

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Sebastian Vargr • Edited

I've been wanting to do something like this forever, but always end up staring at the wall when i think GUI.

This is awesome inspiration, thanks!

Not sure i personally would share my own data so blatantly tho. :)

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Emma Goto 🍙 • Edited

This is super cool! I've been looking into creating a similar sort of thing, but more focused around goals.

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Craig Carlyle

Great idea! Can't wait to see it 😊

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Carlos Guzmán

It looks awesome! and I love your initiative to build something that you need in your life and at the same time you use it to learn/practice new things and improve your career.

In my case, I am still stuck in the what to build? is it useful? I can not do this, I will take so long time, and so on. Reading your story inspires me to try to do something. Thanks for sharing Craig.

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Binyamin Green

Never heard of rescuetime before. Thanks for the tip.

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Joshua Tzucker

This is the kind of content I come to DEV for! It's awesome to see so many pieces fit together, and ingenious solutions crafted where existing APIs could not be found. Thanks for sharing!

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Coop

This is neat. 👍

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Andrea Scotto Di Minico • Edited

Congrats for losing 50 pounds and bringing your idea to life. As other wrote, I had a similar idea few years ago: to stay consistent with life goals, I drew a calendar which contains all weeks for 20 years ahead on A4. From one side it kept me motivating with pursuing career goals, travel goals, growth goals, and to remind of all the things I did in difficult times. From one side this kept me motivated mad from another side seeing 20 years of your life on A4 paper was a bit depressing - life passes pretty fast.

From technical perspective gathering all those data for research would be of incredible value for companies in different niches.

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Muhammad Hazim

What a fun project! great Idea to increase our productivity! 👍👍👍

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kaleigh

WOW!! This is so cool!

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Malcolm R. Kente

This is pretty cool! Kudos to you for making this

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Carlos Orelhas

That's a good idea !! Love it buddy !

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James Eastham

This is incredible Craig! I expect it's a great motivational tool seeing how much you are getting done.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Awesome idea!

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Naimah

Love this so much!!! This is why I track all my data so that one day I can do the same :)

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Rattanak Chea

That's pretty impressive the number of apis involved and different techniques to accomplish this. Could u share data flow in diagram if any? Would be great.

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Stefan Judis

That's very cool! Thanks for sharing!

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Damian Galletini

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this!

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Indra van Davelar

Very cool! It also looks really nice.
Only thing I would do is host it in Amazon S3 with CloudFront in front of it and use a ACM Certificate (free).
It took quite some seconds to load it.

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Tom VanAntwerp

This is awesome--been wanting to build something like this for myself for ages, and this is great inspiration! Thanks for sharing!

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Dana Ottaviani

This looks great! Having all these achievements listed really shows how much you accomplished, that must be a great feeling. 😄

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Mohammad Emran Hasan

That's a pretty cool dashboard you've sewed together...kudos! 😱

Can't wait to get a hand on it for myself.

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Anthony Lio • Edited

That's great, thanks for sharing your journey!
Love the way you connect everything you use daily in one place 👏

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Cool

Hey This looks great and I've also wanted to build like this on myself

Can I ask what stack you had used to built this app?

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Nate Cornelius

Great work! Thanks for sharing this.

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RomanVanLoo

Very well done sir! Love the way you fetch all these data!
Any options you could dive deeper in how you fetch the apple health data?

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Weizhi Xie • Edited

Love it. The design is neat. Thank you for sharing this.