[rbinv]

Agreed. This is the problem with pretty much all "health trackers": how actionable are the data and visualization? Yes, you need to measure stuff to improve it, but still, a step counter is like a website hit counter and has little actionable value in and of itself.

[samstave]

What if you made a white labeled incentive health tracking app that can be used by schools to set contests for activities each week. You can have prizes or incentives set for people individually and as groups.

"Who ran the farthest?"

"Who lost the most weight over the school year"

"Who is eating the best"

And allow competition groups in each between friends as well, e.g. A competition for all students to run or bike, but I can do an individual group challenge with just my friends too...

It might be a good way to get value and start setting good habits at younger ages.

[nkozyra]

I've encountered quite a few of these already, I'm not sure how much incentive it actually provides by simply gamifying it.

To make it useful, there needs to be a carrot and stick. Some companies do this by way of competitions but then it becomes a resources / management issue.

[samstave]

Agreed. I would see success in gamification on the younger user base. Get this into middle school PE and drive through highschool

[2arrs2ells]

If anyone wants to do this, let me know (contact info in profile). My startup (Clever, YC S12) has APIs that'd make the school part incredibly easy.

[samstave]

I want 0.5% equity :-)

[paxswill]

Not white labeled, but this is pretty close to what Fitocracy does.