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August 18, 2007

MyProgress Lets You Track Your Progress

Duncan Riley

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myprogress.jpgVancouver based MyProgress offers a service that provides progress monitoring features (generally used in computer role playing games) for life tracking.

MyProgress allows users to track their personal finances, skills, “knowledges”, wealth and health dynamics.

The site tracks every piece of information users enter, from a new purchase, capital gains, an hour of photographic or driving experience, or a rental price change, and provides a detailed overview on how fast they are progressing in comparison with the others across multiple categories, such as age, occupation, and location. The service provides analytics about user’s life and build forecasts based on past data.

MyProgress is billed as the world’s first online application “designed to helping an individual [not a corporate] manage their progress and read their life log as an RSS feed.”

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  1. Anand

    August 18th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    I should be running a mile instead of working at the computer trying to see how much I am supposed to run…

  2. steven

    August 18th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    I’m sure there are some people who want to use something like this, but it seems a but superficial to me. Your whole life is nothing but a series of scores and measurements? Doesn’t work for me.

  3. Mustafa

    August 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    Actually, neat! I am already starting to see how much this will help people, not at all useless :) Still, let’s see what the others say.

  4. Jimmy Huen

    August 18th, 2007 at 11:49 pm

    Maybe it’s just me but I may not be comfortable of letting a site have so much of my information. Will this model gain critical mass?

  5. Brendan Jarvis

    August 19th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Positive idea but it hinges on users being disciplined in their usage. I’m going to check it out. I wonder if the competitive element be enough or is this another deadpool candidate? Time will tell.

  6. Austin Hallock

    August 19th, 2007 at 12:37 am

    Thanks, I was looking for something like this…Haven’t had a chance to try it out since they haven’t sent my activation link.

    I wasn’t looking for something this advanced (just something to track my progress towards a financial goal) but hopefully this does the job.

  7. Tan The Man

    August 19th, 2007 at 1:02 am

    Interesting, but the interface looks really cluttered… as is everyone’s real life, right?

  8. Spuds

    August 19th, 2007 at 1:07 am

    A rather interesting idea. I might give it a go and see what it says.

  9. EZ

    August 19th, 2007 at 1:13 am

    As anyone who has ever consistently met their own goals can attest, the key is to focus, not to spray.

    This looks like a ready-made time waster for dabblers and dreamers. Their home page says, “spray on, dilettante, spray on.”

    The good news, from a business perspective, is that the legions of folks who will masturbate to this site, are exactly this audience that spends so much money on Rich Dad, Poor Dad-type books (wealth will be mine any day now!), Bowflexes (fitness will be mine any day now!), and ridiculous vitamins/supplements (I’m going to live forever, and with a super-sized erection anytime I need it any day now!)

  10. News-Views-Reviews

    August 19th, 2007 at 1:20 am

    It is interesting to read that to achieve success I can manage my funds properly for better progress in business or personal life. Nice idea :)

  11. Tradervic

    August 19th, 2007 at 1:22 am

    I hope this site will have ULTRA tight security, cause with so much information (basically your life)..the ID theft crew will be busy bombarding this site looking for holes. I guess we watch, wait and see on this one.

  12. otaku

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:21 am

    There are no IT geeks but mental geeks …

  13. strauch

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:33 am

    First? I think, 43 things was on the block a bit earlier.

  14. rh

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:50 am

    Just us helping build the government database to track everyone… couple this with “celebritylookalikes” that everyone is doing and you’ve got a nice picture that has been scanned with identifying features recorded. Add facebook/myspace, twitter, and cell-phone GPS they have our network of contacts and locations. And in some way we’ve tied it all together for them (email as the record key for example)

    Pretty cool!

  15. Doug

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:51 am

    I like the premise of the site and after signing up I’ve started filling it in. I’ve spotted a couple of bugs and have a couple of suggestions for them:
    * Signup - Too long a form. Also if you incorrectly entire the captcha you lose all of your data when you go back. Not good if you want people to stick around.
    * Cluttered - As has been mentioned its very busy with a lot of text and icons exploded across the screen.
    * Entering a date when adding a transaction got ignored and it simply added the current date.

    All in all I like it and I’ll keep using it for a while.

    EZ - I don’t think thats particularly helpful. I myself have read RDPD and its certainly not a precursor to time wasting and ’spraying’. RDPD and books by other similar authors have a lot of good information in them. The reason a person fails in life is their own fault as those books don’t advocate laziness and pipe dreams as you suggest.

  16. Leon

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:58 am

    Interesting, but my life ain’t that complex.

  17. Wes

    August 19th, 2007 at 3:35 am

    This is a very interesting concept and its good to see some people come with innovative ideas like this.

  18. sky

    August 19th, 2007 at 3:49 am

    I think pencil and paper will work equally well. Is this some sort of final year college project?

  19. Michael Vu

    August 19th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    I think people are undervaluing metrics. Extraordinary efforts call for extraordinary measuresments. ;) Although it’s not completely polished, you can’t help but applaud the concept. Simplicity is going to be the life and death of such an application…

  20. Michael Vu

    August 19th, 2007 at 4:18 am

    Wow, I just tried to sign-up and it says:

    “Last name must be more than 2 characters”

    Haha…

  21. A Million Dollar Girl

    August 19th, 2007 at 5:04 am

    I think is a great idea, but I really don’t understand the concepts the application is based. Of course, I still did’t use the app, so I’m a little confused about how it works. But what I’m wondering is that it might be too simply to really evaluate skills, “knowledges”, wealth and health dynamics.
    Is AI used as the core to develop the app?

  22. Louis-Eric

    August 19th, 2007 at 5:52 am

    @22: That was funny; I always get some apprehension too. At least that site didn’t tell me that my name was invalid or illegal [uh?]: there are tons of websites that refuse hyphens, or force-capitalize the first letter only leaving the rest of it in lowercaps, as if I they knew better than I my own name or how to write it. That one got that part right; Cingular didn’t. Still, -1 for cultural sensitivity.

  23. Dominic

    August 19th, 2007 at 6:08 am

    Just another uselss site. How lame ! If you need a site like this to monitor your progress in life, you DON’T HAVE A LIFE.

  24. Blake Brannon

    August 19th, 2007 at 6:23 am

    This seems great. I have wanted a way to track what I am doing in my life and this sounds like a good tool to try. I hope that the time it takes to input data is much smaller than the benefits you get from knowing the information.

  25. ihero

    August 19th, 2007 at 6:26 am

    This is cool — but I worry it could be pulled by financial and insurance companies.

    and this will allow me to see that I’m in rut when I feel like I’m in one.

  26. Ryan Williams

    August 19th, 2007 at 7:10 am

    @Austin Hallock
    Check out NetworthIQ for something focused on tracking the financial side.

    Of course, I’m curious to how this site plays out. There are some interesting bits to the site, and it was well thought out. Interesting that you can value your animals. I’ve never had that request to add to NetworthIQ :-).

  27. Anand Sankaran

    August 19th, 2007 at 7:28 am

    Err, the registration page does not allow me to click the “submit” button. FF2.0 on Mac OSX. Nice.

  28. Ryan Spahn

    August 19th, 2007 at 7:52 am

    This could be done better via Google …. in a scary big brother way!

  29. Christopher

    August 19th, 2007 at 8:16 am

    Another website that will help track progress is Goalmigo at:

    http://www.Goalmigo.com

    The difference is that Goalmigo tracks progress for specific goals.

  30. Justin

    August 19th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    Another web2.0 fail I expect uncov to cover soon.

  31. Wole

    August 19th, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Interesting project. I’m not sure I agree with their premise that they have developed a fun, easy to use product. The product fails to bring any excitement into what is a very tedious and boring task. Can’t see it ever having mass appeal.

    But good attempt nonetheless.

  32. Ed

    August 19th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Would not trust all this info to one site, I’m worried about identity thieves.

  33. Ed C

    August 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    The fact that this site exists (and is gaining traction??) to me is a greater reflection of the insecurities of many of us in the modern world - I feel I can say this with some authority as this would have appealed to me greatly in my previous existance inside corporate land. Now that I have been out for sometime and making our way in small business land the metrics do not seem to apply in the same way as the measures of success are now are emotional therefore more difficult to to represent graphically.

    Therefore this has every likelihood of succeeding. As my business partner Caspar (www.rewardingdialogue.co.uk/profiles/20-caspar-craven) put’s it “sites must have a visceral element - Greed, Schardenfreude, reflecting the Zeitgeist, exploiting people’s inner most fears” - to give themselves the best chance of success. To those on the greasy pole, this plays into their inner fears and will give some comfort to those who feel personal benchmarking is a prop to support them.

    Wait until they produce the “ranking” tables, that will really get people going.

  34. eca

    August 19th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    This looks like a really good idea, will have to see how it works in the long term.

    I agree with #32 however. This data could easily be used by gvt or corporate snoops for personality profiling and worse.

  35. dunker1

    August 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Hmmm, So i can compare haves against have nots. Wannabes against Bees! How do i compare against my neighbor….FFS if this is aimed at G18-35, then the writer that said the USA is dead and over is right. Maybe China does have it right. Measure up against that behmoth
    Gee as if there is not enuff marketing BS about having more. bigger, better , sooner.
    Can’t we grow up ? Lets measure how much we give. Lets measure how much we share. Better still lets not measure that. Lets just go do it.

  36. benlm

    August 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    Shouldn’t this be a facebook application instead?

  37. Trench Reynolds

    August 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    MyProgress. Let me show it to you.

  38. Enough

    August 19th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    I’ve typed 1897 characters today. My daily goal is 2500 characters. This post just brought me another 132 characters closer. God I love this site. Ooops, that’s another 51.

  39. David Mackey

    August 19th, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    Sweet. I like this idea…Heading over now.

  40. Emily

    August 19th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    No amount of external validation will make you feel successful if you don’t believe it yourself. Rather than wasting time entering nonsensical statistics like the monetary value of your pets into MyProgress, you could be doing something that makes you happy and helps you grow as a person. MyProgress is betting on our competitive nature and addiction to judging ourselves against others. These are probably not qualities you want to nurture with a clever online tool.

  41. Roman

    August 19th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    What in this product is best of breed? Meaning what is going to convince the finance junkies to stop using Yahoo Finance and use this or the running junkies to stop using their own training blog and use this. What is compelling about this proposition?

  42. Joe T.

    August 19th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    Don’t tell me that VCs actually paid money for this…

  43. Someones-Ex-Gf.com

    August 20th, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Interesting, but the last thing I need is another tool/website/widget that I need to track on a daily basis.

  44. The Credence Dot Com

    August 20th, 2007 at 3:14 am

    It looks a nice site as well as concept but the problem is very few people will keep on updating things on regular basis. They get good number of people registered to there service but it will be interesting to see the ratio of registered members and.active number of people say after 12 months

  45. big mother

    August 20th, 2007 at 7:18 am

    good idea, but i think i’m sick of trackers and stuff like that. There are so many buttons, charts, textboxes to click/view/analyze every day :)

  46. TechDumpster (living in First Life)

    August 21st, 2007 at 12:04 am

    Duncan has returned and no one cares. This requires far too much input to make it worthwhile.

  47. Truth Monger

    August 21st, 2007 at 11:22 am

    This is the stupidest website I have ever seen (MyProgress) nothing like spilling your guts for the world, and hackers to see.

    Whoever came up with this should be shunned by the gender of their choice - and should be drawn, quartered, and (my personal favorite) have their entrails BURNED.

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