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Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta.

The newest update to my iPhone application, Dayta, just got approved by Apple. I'd love to know what you guys think about its current state, and what I could add next!

I really think it has a bright future.

You can visit the iTunes page for it here: http://daytaapp.com/go/

( 22 comments | 30 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by noahlt on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:46AM (#1754637)
Are you aware of Daytum? It's a web app by Nicholas Feltron, the guy who does "personal annual reports", infographics about his life. http://feltron.com/ http://daytum.com/

You might be interested in contacting him. At the very least, I thought you should know about the similarity in applications and names.

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:52AM (#1754649)
I'll contact him ASAP, thanks.

EDIT: contacted him. Hope he likes it :)

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:30PM (#1756248)
Contacted him, he's now a user of my app!
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:23AM (#1754588)
Here are some promo codes (US only, sorry!):

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Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by city41 on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:44AM (#1754632)
I used X4HKFEH74XYK, thanks!

(It took me 6 tries to find one that wasn't used, it's good to leave a note with the one you used)

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by spicyj on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:56AM (#1754653)
They're all gone now except 6XR63PL4FEWR, which is supposedly not valid.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by bjtitus on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:38AM (#1754617)
I used R6PTHJEHHM69. FYI.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by polymath21 on Monday October 04, 2010 @04:53AM (#1755057)
anymore left? i've been looking for something like this for forever and would love to try it out!
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @01:08PM (#1756396)
Nope, it's only $1.99 though :)
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by hopeless on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:27AM (#1755112)
I was looking for an app in this category and had seen Dayta before but didn't buy it because it looks like it only tracks daily events? For some things that just doesn't make any sense - like, for example, going to the gym. I want to go 2-3times a week not 1 or more times a day.

It doesn't seem possible to track events aggregated on a weekly basis?

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:56AM (#1755822)
I go to the gym 3 times a week, and just input data on the days I go. It works fine for me, the graph doesn't look weird or anything. :)
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by bjtitus on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:40AM (#1754622)
I've seen your app around at thought it looked interesting. A couple initial thoughts:

1. A larger array of images to choose from. Since this can be ANY kind of measurement. I would even like to see user submittable icons/graphics and a hosted repository somewhere.

2. Custom keyboards would be nice depending on the kind of units. The calculator style keypad is a good example.

I'll let you know more once I have a change to play with it throughout the week.

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:41AM (#1754624)
Thanks! I did have a custom keyboard but with the new update it broke. However, I'm definitely looking out for another option. And yes, I'm looking into including many more images too.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by newyorker on Monday October 04, 2010 @02:33AM (#1754807)
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by city41 on Monday October 04, 2010 @11:22AM (#1755923)
Apple let you review your own app eh? :) I would have thought they would have prevented that by now.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by CoachRufus87 on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:45AM (#1754636)
just for clarification, the data is emailed to me in a .csv based on how frequently i instruct it to?
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @12:52AM (#1754648)
There are two options. You can choose to email yourself the .csv of a specific data log when you want (in the Data Options screen).

Or, you can specify a daily, weekly, monthly, or never export in the Settings panel. This will prompt you with an email when it's time (just hit send and you should be good to go). This export contains data from all of your logs.

Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by CoachRufus87 on Monday October 04, 2010 @01:15AM (#1754675)
awesome, thanks
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by forsgren on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:56AM (#1754957)
Dayta seems to be incredibly buggy (or am I using it wrong?). Data points does not seem to get consolidated by day, sometimes data even gets stored on the next day.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Thursday October 07, 2010 @01:15AM (#1766918)
My bad, I've seen the bugs (had to do with consolidate by day's dealing with dates). It's been fixed in the update I'll submit to Apple in the coming days.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by sahillavingia on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:56AM (#1755825)
All those bugs should have been fixed in the update - highly tested too! Make sure you've updated.
Re:Ask HN: Review my app, Dayta. by udfalkso on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:16PM (#1756916)
If I had an iPhone I'd probably try this out. Looks cool.