Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hamburglar 367 days ago
This looked promising, but the first two things I tried to record with it seemed just outside of its capabilities. I track blood pressure daily, but it didn’t seem to have a way to record a metric that has two numbers. In addition, I record the sodium and potassium values of everything I eat, and I want a way to record the name of the food item along with those two values (preferably providing a dropdown for previous entries that auto-fills the numeric parts).

Also, the nagging about buying premium was quite aggressive and it made me feel like I couldn’t even get a feel for what the app is like first.
1 comments
NoTranslationL 367 days ago
Yeah, there is no support for “multi-dimensional” metrics. So systolic and diastolic would each have to be their own metric. Food tracking in Reflect could use some work, but if you link with Apple Health, Reflect can pull data from Cronometer or MyFitnessPal for example.

Any particular place you thought the premium was very aggressive? I’m open to changing that, it’s not the kind of feedback we normally get. Thanks for saying so

link
hamburglar 367 days ago
A lot of things I clicked on just led to an upsell page that wanted me to do a week trial that led to a $49 monthly, which surprised me since I hadn’t even begun to explore and only had a single metric which I’d never even recorded a datapoint for. And it seemed like I only was allowed to define a single metric, so I tried to delete it in order to create a new one, but clicking “delete” on it was apparently a premium feature as well. I gave up.

You really need to let people actually use the product with no commitment, see how it’s useful, and then bug them a month later.

Btw, I found a bug: on the page where there are three big buttons and the third is “load a csv”, the csv button isn’t clickable. Only the icon on it is.

link
NoTranslationL 367 days ago
Thanks for all that feedback! One minor point is that the 49.99 is annual. You can define and record unlimited metrics and data on the free version so if you can’t then that’s a bug for sure. Also, noted regarding the import bug, thanks for that.
link
PythagoRascal 366 days ago
Could you elaborate on which features are premium only? Or maybe also put them in the AppStore description? I tend to be averse to even downloading apps with IAP, without knowing what they are going to be.
link