Major homepage error: resolved
Because of an error while retrieving the feed of our blog, our homepage crashed. An error we did not catch, oops!
We’re very sorry for the inconvenience.
Luckily personal pages were available and the web service has not been unavailable for a second. All data has been gathered as usual.
We will take measures to prevent this failure from popping up again.
Weekend update: new charts are live
Just a short note to inform you on the progress of the last few days:
- We switched to the ChartDirector chart engine. Charts look better now and can handle larger amounts of data. Next step is to provide you with a URL to publish your charts live on your website. Only if you want to.
- The home page should look a bit more appealing. Entries from this blog are shown, as well as 2 example charts.
We welcome your suggestions. Either comment here or send us a tweet @lijst.
Development Charts, what do you think?
Currently on lijst.com
Currently on our development server
What do you think?
Dropped beta, improved the API
Hello again; a short update:
Yesterday we dropped the beta subdomain. All our base are belong to you on a proper “www.lijst.com“.
Of course beta.lijst.com still works. Please update your bookmarks and API software so we can really drop it.
Since December 2008, you could use our basic API to access your Lijst.com data from software. This was implemented by Jeroen while I was relaxing in Montpellier, France. Today we added more unit tests, slightly changed the API specification.
If you like mashups, why not try it out? If you like, you can join my personal effort of programming client-side implementations for the API: code.google.com/p/lijstcom/
Improved charts: proper scaling
Hello there! We’ve improved the charts. Y-values were not scaled, while the labels on the Y-axis were. It was a bug: thanks for the feedback @conortje.
Below, a new chart showing my weight in the past three months. What do you think?
weight measurements
Another change: immediate account activation. Once you register, you can start adding lists and values immediately.
Cheers.
Lijst goes beta: first steps in the real world
We’re excited! Yesterday, we put our app online: http://beta.lijst.com/
Feel free to try it out. Please let us know what you think…
Development screenshots
We’re getting close to a usable application! We’ll follow the release early and often dogma. We’re also aware of the importance of the first impression. So, no release without thorough testing of usablity and functionality.
To meet the interested half way, here are four screenshots of our running development version.
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An excellent example: SugarStats
Last saturday, at the Health2.0 unconference in Amsterdam, I met Marston Alfred, founder of SugarStats. His story is an excellent example of positive results of monitoring yourself.
Marston has diabetes. Over a year ago, he started to digitally administer sugar, food and medication intake, as well as his physical activities. Since no online tool existed, he built his own. That personal project grew into a successful company.
CC: Khürt
By keeping track of his behavior and its effects on his health indicators, he lowered his HbA1C score by 3 percentage points over 1 year. This lowers the risk of complications caused by diabetes with almost 80%. His story tells of regained eye sight and “not feeling lethargic”.
SugarStats is an inspirational example for lijst.com. We have no niche in mind to cater and are looking forward to see what users will choose to monitor.
Lijst.com at The Next Web 2008
It’s hip, it’s innovative, it’s humming: The Next Web 2008 conference in Amsterdam, April 3rd and 4th. I’m attending and really looking forward to it.
Hope to meet many interesting, enthusiastic people and to come back with fresh ideas. Business cards are in. What more do I need?
We’re not a startup! ;)
Lijst is something I’ve had on my mind for years. The concept evolved. Today I think it is mature enough to be announced: lijst.com
Feedback is highly appreciated.
