I'm looking for someone to collaborate with on a (hopefully) small application.
Over the time I've found that I want to track various things that happen in my life in order to (1) improve productivity, (2) keep up to a schedule I picked or (3) just have an idea what is going on. For me this includes body weight, amount of exercise, time spent in various activities (coding, reading, watching TV), Pomodori completed and whatnot. This is reminiscent of the QuantifiedSelf movement.
The best way I see this is to have a "Personal Dashboard" where I can have all the numbers, charts and reminders I need. I envision it highly customizable – new things you want to keep track of pop up all the time and there should be a nice way to fit them in (like say, you started taking vitamins). Although there are a number of applications that can accomplish this (Lift, MyFitnessPal/FitDay, various Pomodoro timers, etc.), I want it simpler and I want it in one place. Furthermore, I enjoy customizing my habits the same way I like customizing my text editor.
I'll eventually code it up, but it would be way more fun to collaborate on it. I'm looking for somebody who would use such a dashboard and wants to work together on creating one. I'm not thinking about monetization, or even making it usable for non-programmers, although it would be fine if you want to go that way.
There should be a bunch of interesting design problems that I'd love to tackle. As for language, I want to go either with Ruby or Clojure. I'm well versed in the first one and it would be pragmatic. The second would take more time, but it will be more fun too.
If you're interested – get in touch! You can reply to this gist, poke me on twitter, send a pigeon or reach me in any convenient way :)
Great idea and I'm interested, but at the moment I'm out time 😢