Thanks for the note about the error, should be fixed soon.
Good point about letting people check the full list of providers!
To the question about business model, all three of us agree wholeheartedly that free services rightfully bring a certain level of skepticism. All things considered we don't think it would be possible to charge for the app, but do feel there are not enough truly consumer-focused offerings in the health space. So we are thinking hard about what the revenue model will be. We don't have any plans to sell info in any regard and are under the impression that would require a direct opt-in from consumers if that offers any solace.
"We don't have any plans to sell info in any regard and are under the impression that would require a direct opt-in from consumers if that offers any solace."
This is interesting. Are you then not considering exposing APIs to anonymous data or such like?
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Thanks for the note about the error, should be fixed soon.
Good point about letting people check the full list of providers!
To the question about business model, all three of us agree wholeheartedly that free services rightfully bring a certain level of skepticism. All things considered we don't think it would be possible to charge for the app, but do feel there are not enough truly consumer-focused offerings in the health space. So we are thinking hard about what the revenue model will be. We don't have any plans to sell info in any regard and are under the impression that would require a direct opt-in from consumers if that offers any solace.
"We don't have any plans to sell info in any regard and are under the impression that would require a direct opt-in from consumers if that offers any solace."
This is interesting. Are you then not considering exposing APIs to anonymous data or such like?
Like you say, anonymizing data is nigh impossible, so I'd rather just avoid it entirely. Maybe local processing?
We are thinking a user driven OAuth style service would be valuable.
Makes sense.