Gyroscope | https://gyrosco.pe | Remote · Full Time Engineering · Salary + Equity
We're building the operating system for the human body. Our goal is to help people live healthier and happier lives through great software. We just passed a quarter million users and are planning to grow rapidly this year.
Looking for some experienced engineers to join our team of two. Work remotely from anywhere in the world.
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Software Engineer, Mobile
An engineer with a focus on building great mobile apps. You would spend most of your time working with Swift, Objective C, JavaScript & React Native.
Improve our native location tracking (launching soon), build new experiences that help people be more healthy, and new ways of tracking data through the app.
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Software Engineer, Backend
We're looking for someone familiar with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with large amounts of data at scale.
You'll spend your time building new integrations, new features, managing our infrastructure, and using machine learning to help all our users become more healthy.
Gyroscope | Software Engineer | Remote Team | Full Time | $100–140k + equity
We're a small team building the operating system for the human body (see https://gyrosco.pe/). Quarter million users on the app now, and we're profitable with our Pro subscription program. This year we're building more integrations to give people more insights about themselves, launching our new places tracking feature, and adding new ways to get meaningful health improvements (weight loss, increased productivity, continuous monitoring of biometrics, etc.)
We're hiring for a couple engineering roles:
• iOS Engineer —— working with Swift, Objective C but also some JavaScript & React Native. We have a React Native app but there are many fully-native components, like our location tracking system, the HealthKit syncing logic, and many new features we want to add this year, like an Apple Watch app and tracking for time spent on the phone.
• Backend Engineer —— experienced with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with huge amounts of data. Build new integrations, manage our infrastructure, and use machine learning to help all our users become more healthy. We've got over 50 servers processing millions of new data points every hour, which have the potential for significant health impact if analyzed correctly.
We are a distributed team with team members in San Francisco, New York, Canada, and even Poland. We raised a seed round last year from top investors like True Ventures and Matrix Partners, and will be growing rapidly this year so now is the perfect time to join. More Info: https://gyrosco.pe/about/
Gyroscope [https://gyrosco.pe] | Remote / Onsite | Backend engineer with health & data science interest
We are building a new operating system for the human body. The Gyroscope app is currently featured in the Health & Fitness section of the app store and has a few thousand paying members, with many gigs of new health data coming in every day. We are working on using that data to help people live healthier lives, lose weight and be more productive.
Looking for a very experienced engineer who is familiar with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with huge amounts of data. You would get to build new data integrations, manage our infrastructure, collaborate on new products, and use machine learning to help our users become more healthy.
We are a small (2 full time & some contractors) distributed team, currently in SF & Canada. You would be very autonomous and have a lot of responsibility to get things done and move fast, but without as much mentorship or guidance as a bigger company would be able to provide.
This was a really fun project. We weren't actually planning to do any annual reports, but over the break I was digging through my own data and there were a few things I wanted to see.
Few days later we had a basic page and figured might as well release it for everyone. Hopefully you will find it interesting.
We were very inspired by things like the Feltron Annual Report & Jehiah's Annual Report. Seems like something people and companies have been doing for a long time already, so lots of examples to continue from.
iPhones for the past few years have actually been tracking steps and other data in the background & storing it in Healthkit. You won't be able to get heart rate, but a lot of our views can be powered with just software.
Our new healthkit app (gyrosco.pe/app, currently in beta) loads steps from the iPhone, and we also integrate with other apps like Moves which also run on the phone.
The idea is you can get started within just a few minutes and not need to buy anything. We can also backfill the last year of data so you don't start with an empty site. Then you can start to add hardware to get more data you care about, like a wifi scale or heart rate monitor.
There are many other apps that also write to healthkit, like sleep tracking apps Sleep++ / Sleep Cycle, which will then show up.
First of all, we're not selling any data, nor do we ever plan to. We do make money by offering a pro subscription--this new design is one of the features, along with things like custom domains and access to our Healthkit app. We've already gotten a few dozen upgrades today, which is really exciting and lets me confidently say things like "we will never sell your data".
We believe that sharing of this data is an important part of the experience for most people. Of course you don't have to, but for many people that is the first thing they want to do. Perhaps only with your family or a few close friends, and not the whole world, but a single-player experience that only exists on your device would be missing many of the experiences that we think are core to Gyroscope.
A small percent of users have made their profiles public, and many of those have set up a custom domain name and are very excited about sharing it and having a personal website that reflects who they are. Having the data in the cloud makes that use-case possible, though of course doesn't require it.
Our new mobile apps are also taking a slightly different approach, where all of the source data is private but allows for curation and customization, and you can export individual images with aspects that you want people to be able to see. I think that will be the right balance of privacy and control for most people, while still allowing sharing of things they want to highlight.
Making my account completely public has been an interesting experiment. When I first did it last year, I wasn't sure what to expect. Overall it has been very positive experience, and my current opinion is that more transparency is generally good. The location data is probably the most sensitive out of all the things we track. For other people, weight or age have been concerns, and we've added settings to fully hide those.
There are things I consider very private and wouldn't want anyone else to see — like my messages, emails, finances, etc. — but I am personally happy to release the data on the site, like what my heart rate is or how much I slept yesterday. That balance will vary for everyone, which is why I have been experimenting mostly on myself before recommending things to others.
The location data is probably the most sensitive, and we've been playing around with other themes that show different combinations of data and keep more of that private.
We might add other login options in the future, but currently we've found Facebook to be a great experience because we can boot up your basic account info (timezone, name, cover photo, age, etc.) without needing all that to be manually entered. It would be a terrible experience if the first 5 minutes on Gyroscope were just spent typing in basic facts about yourself. One of our big challenges with Gyroscope is how to passively power all this stuff without creating any more work for the user. Our goal has been to go through the whole experience without ever needing to use your keyboard to type anything, maybe with the exception of setting your username.
Well, in my case, I deleted my facebook a few years ago, so you actually did lose me, not just as part of some public stand.
I think it's interesting you're publishing your data, and I'm glad you're happy with what you're publishing -- it totally makes sense. User-defined privacy is an awesome thing.
It remains my proposal that you consider actually cutting off your own access to customer data unless they decide to publish it, essentially extending that ability you have while in control of the system to your customers. I think you can see from some of the comments in this chain that people aren't so trusting as you feel you deserve.
And, of course, if someday you or the company needs the revenue, then it might be nice to have already, when not under duress, made a not easily-revocable decision about the ways you'll choose to monetize user data. Or, obviously, it might hamstring your plans.
Same here, deleted my Facebook account a year or two ago, so any time a "cool" service pops up that requires Facebook, it's a bummer to not be able to try out the service, but at the same time it feels like it validates my stance that Facebook has become one of the biggest dangers to the original dream of what the Internet could become.
+1 - Not a facebook user any more, but someone very interested in personal health. The site looks amazing but I wouldn't reactivate my facebook just to use it.
my point was we're working now to try to figure out the right mechanism — whether it is pro subscriptions or selling hardware, etc. — so we don't end up in a position where we'll need to sell data later.
> end up in a position where we'll need to sell data later
The point is that there's nothing structurally preventing you from selling data later. Unfortunately that's not a great reassurance, as much as one may want to believe in the project.
To be clear: I think this is an interesting undertaking and you guys are producing good stuff. This structural problem is concerning though, and deserves some serious thought.
It's possible to set up encryption model where it will be particularly hard to sell data later -- this is one of the things we've spent a decent amount of time building in the company I work for, for this reason. No, we're not selling data, and we're actively working to block that pathway in future even if the leadership has completely changed.
E.g., data at rest for private accounts is encrypted with per-account keys based at some level on the user's login, and internally can't be decrypted until the user is signs in next.
Your software interests me and I would like to try it. However, I am not a Facebook user and don't plan on being one. For me, it's a pity that it is tied to Facebook.
Thanks! This is actually already available, and a demo of our new Gyroscope Pro offering, which is $7 a month and includes things like this new theme, custom domain name support (which is how I have it going to aprilzero.com), our healthkit iPhone app to power it, etc. Check it out at https://gyrosco.pe/
We want to build this as something that anyone can just go and sign up for and start using. I would love to get more athletes using this. We recently released a running app powered by the Gyroscope data — (see gyro.run) — and it's been really exciting to see people use it to share marathons, training, etc. We still don't have a good solution for things like gym training, which are hard to passively track, but that's something we're definitely thinking about.
We're building the operating system for the human body. Our goal is to help people live healthier and happier lives through great software. We just passed a quarter million users and are planning to grow rapidly this year.
Looking for some experienced engineers to join our team of two. Work remotely from anywhere in the world.
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Software Engineer, Mobile
An engineer with a focus on building great mobile apps. You would spend most of your time working with Swift, Objective C, JavaScript & React Native.
Improve our native location tracking (launching soon), build new experiences that help people be more healthy, and new ways of tracking data through the app.
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Software Engineer, Backend
We're looking for someone familiar with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with large amounts of data at scale.
You'll spend your time building new integrations, new features, managing our infrastructure, and using machine learning to help all our users become more healthy.
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More info & application form at: https://gyrosco.pe/jobs/