Yeah, I have some really mixed opinions about this, and it's honestly really conflicting for me. As both a type 1 and a wannabe codemonkey, I love the idea of innovation and new software ~things~ in the t1d world because it's the confluence of two very essential circles to me.
But... this just kinda rubs me the wrong way. It's discussed and presented as if it's the first/only thing in its class- admittedly it doesn't do this in any overglorified or oversensationalized way, but just... in sheer ignorance of large, giants in the field who have done far more than this project for far longer.
The literal only thing this project purports to do is provide analysis for glucose data, and only from one very proprietary source, healthkit. Clarity and Glooko have been around forever, and they're stable, corporate products. But even disregarding the 'official' stuff, NightScout's reports are insanely powerful, https://nightscout.github.io/nightscout/reports/ and have been around for ages, and it and the existence of Loopkit constitute massive existing t1d/developer communities
It's a pretty app, and probably more userfriendly than nightscout to nontechnical folk, but why not just say that if that's your selling point? Why just ignore everything and pretend like you're the only thing that exists?
It feels dishonest and impersonal- borderline corporate, except I almost guarantee any corporate project that exists solely as a stand-in replacement to an existing product would be comparing themselves to every available baseline they could. It's like there's this broad community that already exists, and this project just... pretends they don't exist? I don't get how someone who's remotely tangential to the T1D community could either overlook that, or intentionally refrain from discussion about it.
It's not really a super egregious thing, so I don't know why I seem to care so much, but the whole vibe of this 'project' just feels odd to me.
