Looking for a Fitbit App Developer

[jcdobz]

Hi - let me start by saying that I have zero experience with coding and developing an app. But I have an idea for an app, just no idea how to even get started. I've already read and reread the help page on developing apps. I'm a nurse, not a developer. Its out of my league.

Its a feature I am baffled to learn that Fitbit doesn't support already. With the leaderboard app, you can send your friends cheers/taunts but it goes to their app, not their watch. Same with their replies. Don't you think it would be nice to be able to receive buzzes or notifications on your actual watch when you get a cheer? (Even something like when you send a message on an iPhone and have the option to send it with an effect and you send it with the 'echo' effect). I've scoured the app store to come up with nothing. It would be an app that's right on the actual device, not something that needs an app outside of the Fitbit app (does that make sense?) to run. The developer can keep all the rights to the app, and whatever profit they get from it. I don't care honestly. I just request a name suggestion. The rest can be up to them, or we could work together to design it.

I currently sport the Versa Lite. Idk if that makes a difference but with my luck, it does.
Any help or replies is appreciated.
Thank you for your time.

[SunsetRunner]

Hi @jcdobz , it's an interesting idea, therefore I would suggest to you to post this in the Feature Suggestions Board, which is especially created for these kind of requests. Click the link and on the right side on top of the screen you see "Make a new suggestion", press that and post your request there. Regards kuzibri

[jcdobz]

Hi, thank you for replying. I did do that already. On the previous old thread I found (2015) there was a very recent (like August 2019) Fitbit admin user who posted that the current status of this is "not currently planned". But I went ahead and reposted it again for others to see since that original post was closed to comments. I just cant believe that this feature doesn't exist already.

[WendyB]

It might help if you post the link here to your request on the features board.

Its kinda hard to search that place sometimes

[jcdobz]

Good idea. I like to think I'm rather ok on a tech savvy side (I'm 29 for god sakes lol) but I cannot figure out why it wont post the link here. Simply coping and pasting doesn't work and I tried hitting the "insert/edit link" button between the smiley face and camera above here. Yea that's not working either.. so manually inputting it below.

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/See-cheers-on-Versa-Ionic-devices/idi-p/3871595