Work Progress

I’ve just about wrapped up work on the EC2 launch infrastructure. Systemd and the tooling I put together seem to be working well after running a few tests this past weekend!

This is a pretty big piece of work to be “done” so I’m excited. My next work items are to work out a few UX issues and a small feature that ties into the EC2 launching infrastructure. Once that’s done, I’ll need to tackle the user token / auth flow for making API calls to the service’s backend.

I’ll be slipping my goal of shipping by the end of this month but I’m okay with that. Progress has been steady and I’ve picked up a lot of momentum with the infrastructure I’ve completed.

What

As mentioned in the prior post, I wanted to touch on what my actual product is. If you haven’t had a chance yet, head over to Serendipity Bio.

I’ve been building a data aggregation platform for diabetics to help improve their lifestyles.

If you’re a type-1 (or type-2) diabetic, you may have multiple devices to deliver insulin or monitor your blood glucose (in real time). However, reporting and data-gathering has been fragmented, due to the number of manufacturers, devices, and global healthcare data standards.

Taking a step back from these particular devices, the number of wearables, sensors, and gadgets available to track your health (and other bodily functions) has grown significantly in the last several years. Unfortunately for the user, a lot of this data is hard to consume if you have different brands or devices. Serendipity aims to change that, and make the users’ data easy to load, consume, and take action with.

My goal is straightforward: improve people’s lives with software.

Why Pt. 2

I chose this particular idea out of inspiration from a culmination of my 10+ years of work experience. My hypothesis is, I don’t need to attempt building a service application that delivers burrito’s to your doorstep in less than 10 minutes, nor do I need to build software that tries to sell advertisements nor sell your data to advertisers.

Having a specific problem to solve in software (with a tangible path forward) allows focus from distractions and eliminates other noise when building building a business.

There’s a saying that I’ve heard while working at Netflix, “Avoid building solutions for problems that don’t exist” or “….that’s a solution looking for a problem.” If you look around today, we have so many applications and services struggling to find problems that don’t exist.

My greater goal for Serendipity, attempt to change the way we manage our health and our healthcare data. If anything, the last 3 years of COVID and pandemic living have really exposed how terrible we are at dealing with digital healthcare data, privacy, and anything related.

Let’s change that.