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Hi all, this is Carlos and I’m the founder of ParrotsCage (www.parrotscage.com), a system I’ve been developing to help me overcome depression and anxiety. ParrotsCage has a few strategies to help with that:

  - It allows you to track your mood variations and then display it in a 30-days chart (or 90-days, depending on the screen resolution). This is important as usually when a psychiatrist or the health professional you are seeing asks you about how you are feeling, it’s hard to give an accurate answer as the last happenings or the mood of the day gets more importance than what really happened since the last time you talked to them (usually, 30 days ago at minimum).

  - Tick boxes (also named “Cards”) allows you to check in on medication intakes as well as any kind of events that you engage to, such as workouts, meditation, detox, and so on. These checkins also display in charts that overlaps with the mood variation chart, allowing one to find correlations and/or get insights on what might be helping and what frequency works best (excellent for habits development).

  - Insights generated by ChatGPT3. All the data you recorded is fed into ChatGPT and then we generate a summary of what happened on a monthly basis together with insights and actionable items. It is a faster way to get access to good moments you had, as well as not so good moments. Regardless, sharing monthly insights with the health professionals I visit allows for much more efficient communication and treatment.

I’d love to get feedback from you and in case you want to give it a try, please reach out. I’m still working on pricing and I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks so much, I hope you have great days ahead.

Yeap, but storing data in things like dropbox/drive/s3 would require the app to have some sort of indexing in place (I'm thinking about ElasticSearch), as querying on these storages would perform really bad I think.

Great post! I've been thinking about it myself for some time. My main concern is that once you let the user to hold the data, you might introduce a security issue as it is very unlikely the end user will protect its data as well as you would as a service provider, especially as you would be subject to prosecution if you did something "wrong" with the data (read "leaking" or "selling" it).

I guess you are right about APIs, they eventually won't provide what you need. I'd love to see Solid starting to be used for the apps I use, but honestly I don't feel like it will happen. I don't understand much about Urbit, but from what I read that sounds like another world.

That said, I think there's some startups doing some work with regards to data privacy and security (and it seems like it caught a lot of attention!). As for getting access to the data itself, I think a sort of "open-source" and "reverse engineering" approach would help here, meaning that if you have a proxy between you and the app's server, and supposing you can add plugins to this proxy, you could hijack the data, make sense of it and store somewhere else for your own usage.

Obviously, any external processing of the data would have to be granted by the app itself, but I have a feeling this is what their APIs would contribute with.

I'd be more than happy to talk more about this and even spend some time implementing a PoC, let me know if there's anyone else interested here and we can exchange ideas and/or code/docs/etc.

I started this project because currently it is too "hard" to profile requests for python webapps. There are attempts that create a new URL for you to inspect the results, but I guess that embedding the results directly into the response would be best, as you can check the info through devtools.

There are obviously space to improve, but I thought I would share my approach before I work more on it.

Will there be an API sometime in the future? Also will it be possible to whitelabel the template editor and/or make it embeddable?

Thanks a lot for this project, I've been thinking about coding in the browser for a while, but you guys went much ahead... it is just sad for me to not understand Chinese, but hopefully it will get translated to more languages soon now it is open source!

Yeah, it seems like the work on asyncio may do what I want; I will update the post.