SugarStats, first month updates and whats to come
Posted on: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 amWell, we’ve officially been launched for a month now! We wanted to share some overall stats of the system, how we’re doing and a tiny bit of the great stuff to come 
If you haven’t already don’t forget to get your own account free.
We got hit and continue to get hit with loads of traffic but we’re happy to say things are holding up great.
We’ve gotten great response in these first 4 weeks of launch that have helped us greatly improve the system. Within just the first few days alone we had hundreds of new users sign up and thanks to people seeing the value of the system and spreading the word virally this trend is still happening.
First 30 Day Stats
Within the first 4 weeks of launch:
Sugar Readings
- Over 17,500 Sugar Entries Recorded.
- Averaging 147 mg/dL and 9.2 mmol/L respectively
Top 5 Meds:
- Lantus
- Humalog
- Novalog
- Metformin
- NovoRapid
Foods
While only premium members can track food/carbs, plenty of food/carb tracking going on:
- Some of you LOVE yogurt, popcorn, peanut butter, orange juice and milk
- Over 2850 meals have been eaten via over 750 different foods
- Over 85,100g grams of carbs consumed
- Avg carbs per food entry: 134g
- Avg carbs per meal: 29g
Before and After Meal Sugar Readings
Before you ask, yes these types of graphs and trends will be making their way into your own SugarStats account. So you premium users can look forward to an even greater look into how your meals affect your blood sugars.
Overall Averages:
- Before Breakfast: 143 mg/dL
- After Breakfast: 154 mg/dL
- Before Lunch: 141 mg/dL
- After Lunch: 150 mg/dL
- Before Dinner: 151 mg/dL
- After Dinner: 158 mg/dL
Activities
Another premium only feature but very important to keep track of:
- Over 6200 minutes of physical activity tracked. Over 103 hours.
- Over 206 minutes per day (3.4 hours)
Some of your favorite exercises include:
- Walking
- Swimming (one of my favs)
- Dancing
- Yoga
Overall Averages (in mg/dL):
- Before Activity: 147
- After Activity: 150
What’s to come
Besides the few that really want to track everything in detail, we’ve gotten absolutely great response from you guys. You’ve told us you love how simple and easy to use the system is. This is great to hear as that is what it was built for, so the average diabetic will actually WANT to use it and then actually be able to understand the statistics.
Even so there are plenty of places we can improve on and you’re helping greatly with that. While we won’t go into detail on our future plans (gotta keep some excitement huh? 
), we’re working on some really cool stuff. We’ll give a few little hints:
- Would you like to share your stats (on your blog etc) for all to see your progress?
- Think your mobile phone/PDA browser could be more useful for adding entries?
- Would you like to add friends within SugarStats to see their stats and create a support system?
- Do you use Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc?
- Want to show your people better and more informative graphs? (especially for premium users)
Ok ok, thats enough for now. We don’t have dates for specific features but there is plenty of exciting stuff going on over here So don’t forget to create your free account.
Finally, THANK YOU
And finally a big thanks to all our users and BETA testers who have helped craft the site and application. Your support and feedback has been tremendous and we really appreciate all of it. Stay tuned because there is more to come for sure!
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August 8th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Great to see new charting options in the pipe – let me propose that you only plot days with actual measurement values. I tried to use Sugarstats for my Dad, who has Type 2, and does not need to take measurements daily, only once a week. Dropping the plotline to zero makes his chart hadrly readable.
Thanks.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Oh, and import from xls (csv) would be great. In fact you are already doing it, accepting values from a Glucometer, so if you just published the required csv format, anyone could massage their data accordingly, no matter what meter is the source.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Zoli,
Thanks for the great feedback, we will definitely take it all into consideration
You are correct on the CSV inport, we just need to post a “custom” format for people to get standardized with. The thing is the people who were keeping a personal database via excell/CSV already have their own custom formats their working with and are most likely all different. But their giving us great feedback too and we’re trying to find what is most common.