Launching a new Fitbit Challenge Platform - Need Your Help!

[JonKragh]

Hi All!

I need your help!

I'm working on an app & website for doing brand spanking new Challenges with your fitbit.

I want to overcome the limiations of what fitbit has today.

What kind of challenges would you like to see?

What I'm hearing is this and is what I have so far:

1. More Challenge Members
2. Longer Challenges (customizable length)
3. Ability to Track Steps, Floors, What else am I missing, what else would you like to track?
4. Custom Challenges - Create Private challenges with different goals
5. Different Goals Per Day (e.g. rest days)
6. Set a specific start date or let users set a start date (e.g. start a 30 day step challenge on next Monday)
7. Saved Challenges (you get a journal for every challenge you were in so you can look back at it)
8. Pictures with your updates
9. Private Challenges for Your Business (I have a few extra features here for a workplace to have access to member journals for health care / corporate wellness).
10. Of course data is pulled directly from your fitbit

What else would you like to see?

Feel free to inbox me as well!

Jon

[JonKragh]

Hi all-

I'm working on a thrid party platform that has a mobile app & website for doing custom challenges.

I won't pimp it here - but if you are interested please inbox me.

It will allow you to setup various challenge lengths, various goal types, etc.

It's sort of fitbit meets instagram/ facebook meets cutom challenges.

Inbox me - if anyone is interested.

Below is a screenshot as I'm jsut taking a break from coding right now looking at what you all are asking for!

Cheers,

Jon

 

[Hope7]

Hi Jon

That sounds like an awesome project. If there was a way to include Active Minutes in a challenge that would be great, something my family members with Fitbit have talked about. Maybe a weight loss, or weight maintenance challenge?

I look forward to seeing the new challenges!

Hope

[JonKragh]

Hi Hope- thanks so much for the response!

For active minutes- what about something like this:

"The 30 Day Fitbit Stay Active Challenge"

Participants would join:
- set their own start date
- set an active minute goal for each day of the week
- each day my system would pull your day before stats from Fitbit
- with a Click you can post that as a progress post with optional photos. Your progress post goes into your personal journal and also the newsfeed with where other members can comment on and like your progress
- your journal tracks how often you hit your goal and you keep the journal forever with all your posts

Does that make sense? It's the way I'm seeing this work for active minutes.

Thanks much,
Jon

[Gandhi]

JonKragh

Time zone corrections 

Dont know how you would be able to do that

By the way Brilliant ideas.

[JonKragh]

Hi Gandi-

Thanks so much!  What time zone issues are you seeing?  

I most defintily can do time zone work (they are a pain to do but something I've done a lot of in development).

Cheeers-

Jon

[Hope7]

Jon

That sounds fantastic. Thanks for your quick response. It will be fun to see what other ideas people come up with on this thread.

Fitbit has helped me lose 10 pounds and keep it off. Not to mention connect in an active way with my family in various parts of the U.S. And motivate my teen to get off the computer!

Hope via mobile

[JonKragh]

Awesome Hope - congrats on the 10 pounds that's an amazing accomplishement! 

Looking forward to hearing other ideas!

[HelenaFitbit]

Welcome to the forums @JonKragh! I have merged this post to your current Custom Challenges thread so we'll have all the relevant information on one page. 

Let me know if you have any questions, happy stepping! 

[JonKragh]

Thanks @HelenaFitbit! I'm a bit confuised - where is the other thread? Thanks!

[Rich_Laue]

I font know ehere you started thr other thread, but cross posting ends up only confusing things. Your other thread has been merged into this thread, so now there is no other thread it is just this one.

[JonKragh]

@Rich_Laue thanks! I didn't mean to double post if I did.  I know I reponded to some various threads around this.  All good now!

[aheckler]

hey!

is this going to be avialble for android?

i want to create a custome weight loss / work out challenge with a friend of mind. thats the types of challenges that we are looking for that unfortunatly fit bit doesnt offer.

would love to know when you are rolling out your app! and hopefully for android!

[fbuser2015]

Hi!

People are always coming up with great challenges where say there are 4 items per day that you must complete. It would be nice to have something where you could check off that yes I did this, versus having to remember to update a post saying what you did. It's hard to keep track, a check off list would make things easier.

[JonKragh]

Hey @aheckler!  I'm rolling out the website version next week (which will work well on mobile).  I have people that will be using hte website to test it all out.

Once that is clear of bugs, I'm rolling out android and iOs version (probably about two weeks from now).  If you or anyone is interested please inbox me!

Jon

[JonKragh]

Hi @fbuser2015!  Which 4 items would you want to complete each day?

Thanks!