Apple Health social media upsell

I’m not sure how religiously y’all read this newsletter. Sometimes I feel like I’m just yeeting ideas into the void, but then someone will mention something I shared here and I remember that people are reading my unhinged ramblings.

If you have been keeping tabs on my work, you might be familiar with Stompers, a step-tracking app I made where you can compete with friends in daily competitions to see who walked the farthest. It’s a simple, fun game that I am very bad at. Because I am in founder mode, I am effectively glued to my laptop and not a super active person.

This got me thinking about my friends who are too active. Some days, I wake up to see that people on Stompers have already run a marathon.

These people need to chill out. To that end, what if there was a feature to indicate and warn people when they are “excessively active”? They could be upsold a social media app to help them calm down.

This is dark and unnecessary as people are actively building technology to get people offline, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.

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