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Neeraj Thakur

Instant 4.0 - Google Analytics for your life, now with a chatbot coach

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Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
Hello Product Hunt! We initially built Instant to track your life automatically on a dashboard. We track your phone usage, sleep, places, travel and fitness. (Apps on Android too) But we realised, users need more value out of their data. We started out with building weekly reports. Moving ahead, a Chatbot Coach in the app made sense since users can easily query their data. More importantly, the Coach passively analyses your trends and correlations. Example: You’ve been sleeping better from the past three days since your walking has increased. Looking forward to your feedback! Here is a Medium post on how we built it: https://medium.com/@shashwatprad... Instant on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id9... Instant on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/ap...
Mayank Verma
@shashwatpradhan this is awesome.. did you guys build chatbot as a lib that can be integrated in other apps? or was it an extension of an open source lib..
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@maddynator if you are talking about the UI, on Android we built it from scratch. For iOS we used JSQMessenger: https://github.com/jessesquires/... I would recommend building it from scratch to keep it flexible.
Mayank Verma
@shashwatpradhan thanks but I am interested in the AI part... you mentioned in medium that its all done locally.. how does bot interpret and extract data from local store.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@maddynator we have some basic NLP algorithms and mappings to understand the user input. Further it is converted into DB queries to fetch the data.
Mayank Verma
@shashwatpradhan awesome.. any good resource for quick ramp up.. or a dirty objC example.. which NLP algo are you using.. I found a couple on google..
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
All trainers on Android be like
Neeraj Thakur
Hunter
It automatically keep track of the time spent on your phone, while travelling, at places, while sleeping & on fitness activities. But the data isn’t enough. Instant also gives you weekly reports based on your data. All your data is private, only stored on your device.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@neerajt4 thanks for hunting us!
Halyna Tarasenko
Hi! Looks promising. I've just installed and would like to know how does the app track my sleep. Thx!
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@galeriks we track sleep using motion patterns from your phone. If you have a wearable that tracks sleep you can sync it through the Health app or Google Fit!
Halyna Tarasenko
No 'create account' step? Lovely! :) But it might be frustrating if I change my device (which happened lately).
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@galeriks hi, thanks for trying Instant out, you can backup on your iCloud or Google Drive to keep your data with you. We track sleep based on motion of the device. Else, you can connect your wearables to it too.
Halyna Tarasenko
@shashwatpradhan Will you integrate xiaomi band? :)
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@galeriks yes I believe the Xiaomi band syncs to Google Fit from where we can pull data :)
Neil Mukti
@shashwatpradhan @galeriks Thanks for not asking to create an a/c and also allowing me to export/import my data!
Klajdi Turlla
Very interesting proposition. Do you see a possibility in the future to integrate with wearable devices. For example I have all my activity, sleeping and calories consumed data from my Garmin watch and don't need to track from the phone. On the other hand I need the analysis that you provide and the additional data for phone usage. Do you see in the future this kind of combination?
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@klajdi_kl does your Garmin watch connect to Google Fit or Health app? If yes we can already sync that data.
Klajdi Turlla
@shashwatpradhan it syncs through the Garmin Connect app with Health, do not know about google fit. As far as I have seen it does a good job at syncing, only with Active and Resting Calories it seems to have some problems. Will give it a try this way One additional idea is to apply the same model of the Chatbot Coach to more advanced sportive data and analysis. Hardware companies like Garmin or Suunto are very good at hardware but they all do a poor job at presenting the data. Even dedicated apps like Traningpeaks are too complex and you just have a pool of data being displayed with not much intelligence. I would love for a Chatbot like yours to tell me how am I training or how my running form is progressing etc.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@klajdi_kl that's great! Yes we are planning to open up our analysis services to more parameters and devices. For now the weekly reports should be able to give you some data.
Salman Mushir
Isn't this an app that REALLY needs cloud backup (export import doesn't cut it come on) ? What if I change the device? Would be awesome if you had cloud sync because the data looks amazing.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@slmnm hi Salman, we already have cloud backup which we introduced last month. We use iCloud for iOS and Google Drive for Android. You can import the data when you change your phone that way.
Salman Mushir
@shashwatpradhan Thanks for getting back. The app is awesome! The export feature seems to be manual. At least if it had automatic backups like in whatsapp, that would be more convenient. Ideally, imho sync with google drive would be more suited.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@slmnm that's something that we are working on next.
Salman Mushir
@shashwatpradhan Good to know! Already bought the app. Looking forward to some life analytics on this weeks report :)
Tristan Pollock
Will I like what I see?
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@writerpollock that is a tough one. Though you'll definitely like our new visuals.
Niv Dror
Here is the promo video:
Lee Peterson
I really enjoy this app. I'm looking forward to seeing some data about my day-to-day spent away from my computer. One thing that confused me a bit was the branding. I see "Instant - Quantified Self", I see "Emberify" and I see "Shashwat Pradhan." Not a big deal, just something I noticed early on. Also, I think there should be a slight delay in Instant Coach feedback. Perhaps simulated typing would work. I know it says "instant" but it almost feels "too instant"... as if I'm receiving canned responses. A delay would be a subtle touch that I think Instant could benefit from. 2 seconds isn't literally instant, but it's close enough for me when I think I'm talking with some semi-intelligent being. Great job!!
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@lee_peterson hi Lee thanks so much for the feedback. Really appreciate the time you took. Yes Emberify is my startup's name and Instant is the product's name. Will work to make it clearer.
Deepak (Raj) Devjani
@shashwatpradhan this looks exciting! which data sources are you integrating as of now and planning on integrating in the near future? specifically - health sensor data from the smartphones? and secondly, how is the sleep data being collected? lastly - app/ api integrations with urban record / google fit / healthkit / myfitnesspal? Thanks!
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@ddevjani right now we are using smartphone data/sensors independently and through Google Fit/HealthKit. We are planning to start directly integrating with wearables and IoTs starting of with FitBit. Our sleep tracking works on the user's motion and estimates based on our machine learning algorithm.
Kamal Kant
Looks promising. Have been using using Instant3.0 would love to explore the new features.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@kkkosariya thanks Kamal! Your feedback would be great.
Amol Bhalerao
Looks interesting! Just installed it.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@ch_amol thanks Amol! Will look forward for your feedback.
Facu
Hey guys! Nice app but I tested the unlock count and it doesn't seem to be working using even Touch ID or entering the code. The other things look good
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@fameal hi Facundo, it takes upto a minute locked to count an unlock sometimes. Also, try a phone reboot if that doesn't help
Facu
I will try that. Thanks.
Sam Cash
Finally an app to aide the geek inside us all enumerate life! How background heavy is this?
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@sam__cash on Android we take less than 1% battery a day. On iOS 4-6% after the first day.
Jen Lee
I really like the messaging feature for sure. Reminds me a little bit of Lark for fitness.
Shashwat Pradhan
Maker
@jenleeny thanks! You can let us know if you have any feedback on it 😊
Jack Hoge
Very cool
Oliver
Super awesome update!! Congratulations
Doulos Jose
Installing it