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That's an interesting idea but unfortunately we're limited by the walled gardens of the devices and platforms we use. We'd need sufficiently strong outside sources to entice companies to give us raw access to our health and things like that.

Until then, this personal API concept is the best thing I could think of.



But this personal API is still calling out to the same services, with the same restrictions.


True, but these services are just a stop gap (for me). I am slowly building replacements for the services I use. The end goal is to be a publisher of my stuff, using my own services.




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