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Interactive Health Look of My Body
You didn’t expect to see “my” body did you? I’m not ready for that.
I saw this cool, interactive, guided health tour of the body at NY Times.
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Other Simpleweight News: We’re putting the final touches on our next Simpleweight upgrade. What can you expect?
Expect a new design.
Expect a couple of new nutritional reports.
Expect the ability to [...]
You didn’t expect to see “my” body did you? I’m not ready for that.
I saw this cool, interactive, guided health tour of the body at NY Times.
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Other Simpleweight News: We’re putting the final touches on our next Simpleweight upgrade. What can you expect?
- Expect a new design.
- Expect a couple of new nutritional reports.
- Expect the ability to create your own public page.
- Expect a little bit of downtime of the blog. I’ll post some timeframes when you will see a hic-up.
- Additionally, expect a price increase to $29/year. We feel we’ve added value and simpleweight is worth more. We’re still going to have a free account, but we’ll also have an advertising-free full account.
Now, if you sign up today, you will lock-in our current price of $18/year.
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What can we do to help you acheive your weight management goals?
Simpleweight Food Being Worked on.
Hey Everyone,
We started upgrading some internal pieces of Simpleweight last night in anticipation of next update coming this month, May.
As a consequence, Simpleweight Food is down for the time being.
We will have it back up later today. We apologize for the inconvenience. Everything else should be working normally.
Thanks for your patience. If there is something [...]
Hey Everyone,
We started upgrading some internal pieces of Simpleweight last night in anticipation of next update coming this month, May.
As a consequence, Simpleweight Food is down for the time being.
We will have it back up later today. We apologize for the inconvenience. Everything else should be working normally.
Thanks for your patience. If there is something we can do to help you with your weight loss management, please let us know.
Weight Loss updates completed.
Simple weight updates were completed March 21 evening. Ryan did a great job adding some new features for our free public users.
What’s New with Simple Weight Loss?
Exercise Calorie Calculators
The General public can now calculate their calorie burn using our nifty activity calorie calculators.
New, improved, and quicker Charts and Reports
We’ve replaced some of [...]
Simple weight updates were completed March 21 evening. Ryan did a great job adding some new features for our free public users.
What’s New with Simple Weight Loss?
- Exercise Calorie Calculators
The General public can now calculate their calorie burn using our nifty activity calorie calculators. - New, improved, and quicker Charts and Reports
We’ve replaced some of our flash charts with simple image charts. The site loads much faster. - Charts and Reports have the beginnings of Social Features: One can now easily paste their favorite chart or report into their own blog, facebook page, myspace, etc… Here’s my weight loss for the year 2008:
Of course, this chart demonstrates that one needs to focus on the trend and not the day to day fluctuations.
- Minor feature and bug fixes for various requests by users. For example, you can now save custom foods with your own serving size without having to click or save twice.
What’s Next?
Well, we’re working on a site design refresh to liven up the site and make it more attractive. We plan to re-organize the public pages to better explain our exceptional simpleweight offerings. We’ve been promising more social features.
Why do we add and make changes?
We’re always trying to make simpleweight easier to use, and we’re trying to make it easy to follow weight loss’s aggregate best practices:
- Weigh yourself on a regular schedule. (I suggest every day, or once a week.). Make sure you weigh yourself the same time with relatively the same clothes
- Track your energy expenditures and how much exercise you can do.
- Track how much you eat, when you eat, how you eat, and why you eat
- Make your weight loss social!
We’ve got tools simplifying the top three in that list above, and Social Features are coming. It will just make it easier if you just start using Simpleweight now.
What can we do to make Simpleweight so simple you will actually use it
Updates a coming… we’re keeping weight loss simple and fresh.
Consider this a heads up that over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be doing some minor updates and cosmetic changes. We’ve got a major update to public functionality by adding a public exercise calculator functionality. We’re also planning on adding the first parts of our Simpleweight Club Features. The ability to post your simpleweight [...]
Consider this a heads up that over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be doing some minor updates and cosmetic changes. We’ve got a major update to public functionality by adding a public exercise calculator functionality. We’re also planning on adding the first parts of our Simpleweight Club Features. The ability to post your simpleweight charts on your own blog, facebook, myspace page just by copying and pasting some simple code.
we’re working on a refreshed design, some more club items, and a few other features that we’re still ironing out.
If you’ve got ideas on how we should improve simpleweight, let us know.
Stay tuned…
Simpleweight Upgrades Completed
Last Night, we pushed out some new simpleweight upgrades. Again, most of the features are behind the scenes.
We did have a couple of recent feature request. Specifically, one of our users asked to sort favorites. Consider it done.
All you have to do is drag and drop your favorite foods in the order [...]
Last Night, we pushed out some new simpleweight upgrades. Again, most of the features are behind the scenes.
We did have a couple of recent feature request. Specifically, one of our users asked to sort favorites. Consider it done.
All you have to do is drag and drop your favorite foods in the order you want. They will save automatically.
What does the work behind the scenes mean for our users? It means, we will be able to continue implementing features on a quicker basis with easier testing.
We have noticed simpleweight is a little slower since the recent upgrades. It’s due to our popularity increasing. We’ve had a lot of viewers and page hits recently. We’re working on improving performance. We appreciate your patience.
Thank you again. If you like what you see, please click on advertisement or two to help sponsor us or of course. we ask you to recommend your friends, and we’ll pay you for your referral just Refer your friends to Simpleweight.
As always, What is the one thing we need to do to simpleweight to help you join our weight loss club?
Food Search Available Again
Food Search is back and ready for your use. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Thank you for your patience.
Food Search is back and ready for your use. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Thank you for your patience.
Food Search down for upgrades.
Food Search is currently down for upgrades. We apologize for inconvenience. We hope to have this service up and running by morning 1/14/2008. Thank you for your patience.
Food Search is currently down for upgrades. We apologize for inconvenience. We hope to have this service up and running by morning 1/14/2008. Thank you for your patience.
Update 80% complete
Hey Everyone,
We’ve finished our update of Simpleweight.
We’ve got a few more things to finish with the new search index, but the site is back up and usable. We will have another scheduled downtime to complete the next step. Thanks again for your patience.
Keep in mind, if there is anything we can do to [...]
Hey Everyone,
We’ve finished our update of Simpleweight.
We’ve got a few more things to finish with the new search index, but the site is back up and usable. We will have another scheduled downtime to complete the next step. Thanks again for your patience.
Keep in mind, if there is anything we can do to help you achieve your weight management goals, let us know.
Introducing Freemium simpleweight
What’s new with simpleweight?
As I started earlier, we’re planning an update to simpleweight tonight. For many of our users, you will not notice a ton of difference. As I stated in the Weight Loss Incubator, this update is more a behind the scenes technology update.
What are the big changes?
We’re updating from Ruby on [...]
What’s new with simpleweight?
As I started earlier, we’re planning an update to simpleweight tonight. For many of our users, you will not notice a ton of difference. As I stated in the Weight Loss Incubator, this update is more a behind the scenes technology update.
What are the big changes?
- We’re updating from Ruby on Rails 1.x to the latest Ruby on Rails 2.x release.
- We’re fixing quite a few bugs related to indexing and searching food. We’ve tried to keep this bug from effecting anyone, but occasionally when someone searches, our index would freeze while using ferret. We’ve fixed that by using more of a distributed process.
- We’ve updated our paging of foods which will make it easier to jump through a large list of foods.
- We’ve made it easier for us to add new features which we hope to do so more often.
- Some other minor changes to some custom food and recipe functionality.
- We’ve moved to implementing Google’s chart api for faster response times and easier printing. We’ll leave flash charts in some areas that require more interactivity.
- Finally, the big change……
After debating dead accounts and researching successful websites, such as 37signals.com products, we’ve decided to move to a more ad-supported freemium product. what do we mean?
Well, we are going to have two types of products.
- Free ad-supported accounts with some restrictions like limits on the custom foods or recipes one can enter.
- Paid Premium accounts which include increases in our prices for 2008. However, if you sign-up now, we’ll guarantee the $18 price will remain the same for this next year.
Please tell us what you think, and as always. you can’t change what you don’t measure. So, add your weight today to learn what you want to change.
Weight Loss incubator?
Sometimes baby chicks just need to incubate.
As you can probably tell, my brother and I took most of the past five months off from serious Simpleweight development. We made sure to continue using simpleweight in some capacity or another. We prepared a blog post or two (some are still unpublished waiting for future dates). [...]
Sometimes baby chicks just need to incubate.
As you can probably tell, my brother and I took most of the past five months off from serious Simpleweight development. We made sure to continue using simpleweight in some capacity or another. We prepared a blog post or two (some are still unpublished waiting for future dates). We made sure simpleweight was working and continued to provide personalized service to our subscribers, but we delayed some feature development.
Like newborns learning how to adjust their own body temperature right after birth, we wanted simpleweight to incubate.
By stepping away for the summer and fall, we were able to gain some perspective and motivation. Not to mention, we were also able to enjoy the time off for play time with families, running a triathlon - great job Ryan, bring a new baby into the world - that’s why Scott is tired, and generally just concentrate on fun and other work.
Funny thing about stepping away. When you come back to a passion that you set aside to incubate. One gains a greater understanding of the whole picture. Our huge simpleweight to do feature list we had is not as huge.
We can re-evaluate:
- Do you really need this new feature we’re planning?
- Is this the best way to complete that task?
- Is this getting real with weight management?
- Our we meeting our stated goals and mission?
Let’s step back: What’s our Philosophy?
Our philosophy is to make weight management so simple you’ll actually do it. Food In = Food Out.
Funny thing about newborns. They just seem to know how to moderate their temperature and know how to eat and grow. Same thing with chicks in an incubator. They get out of the incubator and then grow and grow with a beauty a child adores. Natural organic healthy moderated growth.
That’s our plan. Take our new perspective and follow the natural organic moderated growth pattern of simpleweight. We’ll go where the simpleweight users take us.
So, What’s next?
- We’re (I should say Ryan is) migrating Simpleweight to the latest Rails 2.0 release. We’re making some bug fixes and stabilizing some internals.
- After we iron out these technical details, We’re going to add some new features we’ve been promising such as implementing the Simple Weight Club, Simpleweight Workouts, Forums, and User Interface changes. (One at a time of course, it’s much better and easier to do it the slow weigh.)
Stay Tuned for more information on our pending release.
Remember, If there is one thing we can do to help you achieve your weight management goals, tell us, and we’ll do our best to help you!
Let us know what you think should be next for Simpleweight?
Photo Credit: Watching the Hatching via Flickr, by Troy B Thompson
