I just want to track my weight. I don’t want to be sold to. I don’t want my data getting sent off to power some corporate whatever. I built a simple weight tracking app. I’m making it available to any self-hosters out there that might be interested. I have it deployed as part of my k3s cluster, but you can run it from a simple docker container. There’s actually two ways to compose it.
If you download just docker-compose.yml from the root and then compose up on that file, you’ll pull the latest version from ghcr.io (github container registry). It will build the docker container, no fuss no muss.
If you want to tinker with it, clone the repo, build and then compose.
You’ll need to create a .env file either way. Deets are in the github repo README.
github: https://github.com/OMTut/weight-tracker
Side note: I’m calling it “HeavyDeets” for two reasons:
1. An appreciation for the Overweight Lover, Heavy D.
2. The TV Show, Tracker. Every time they cut to the tech guru and he uses some program to hack or track, I love reading the names of those apps. “Crack My Whip” I think is the name of their miracle app that tracks people. I believe the app they use to pull up every detail of any house anywhere is called “HouseDeets”. I could be making that up.
