(2015-03-23) Gyroscope Wants To Help You Track Everything About Yourself And Share It With The World

Gyroscope Wants To Help You Track Everything About Yourself And Share It With The World. Software developer Anand Sharma... He volunteered this information on a web app called AprilZero that he built to help him track everything about himself last year. Now he wants to help you track everything about yourself so you can share it with the world, too, using a broader version called Gyroscope.

Gyroscope is basically AprilZero for the masses. It creates a personal profile for you based on various smartphone apps that track data such as weight, health, steps you’ve taken and locations you’ve been to. Foursquare helps to figure out where you’ve traveled, Instagram and Twitter track your activities, various fitness apps such as RunKeeper, Fitbit and Moves track runs, and Withings tracks your weight and heart rate, for example.

he adds that the sharing component is part of what gives the site value. “Imagine some of your friends were easily able to see what you did yesterday or whether you’ve been in a good mood lately. I want to make tools to be able to easily share with trusted friends while still maintaining privacy, especially for the more medical and sensitive stuff,” he said.

Knowing that my activity is being tracked and published to the world has been a really great motivator to do interesting things or try harder