Fitness apps figured out years ago that gamification gets people engaged with their data in a way that raw numbers never will. Diabetes apps, largely, have not caught up. Glucose Grand Prix is a small attempt to show what that could look like.
It is a browser-based web app that loads your blood sugar data from a JSON file and animates each day as a racing lap around a real F1 circuit. Your glucose control determines your speed. The better the day, the faster the lap. At the end, you have a leaderboard showing your best days of control, framed in a way that is genuinely more interesting than staring at a line graph.
The target audience is anyone who finds traditional diabetes data tools a bit dry. Particularly kids. Not every diabetic child relates to a diabetic Barbie or a Marvel superhero, but sport and competition are a language that tends to travel pretty well. If looking at your glucose data means getting to race a car around Silverstone, you are probably going to look at it more often.
You do not need to be diabetic or have access to Glooko to try this. A year of my own glucose data is included in the GitHub repository as glucose.json, ready to load straight into the app. How committed am I to demonstrating a concept? Apparently committed enough to hand over a year of my medical data to complete strangers on the internet. You are welcome.
Everything runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded anywhere, and the code is open for anyone who wants to take the concept further.