25/08/2019
CELEBRATING 6 YEARS of the VERY BEST in Human Nature, Celebrating 6 Years of Nightscout!
“I would say Nightscout began on John Costik's driveway Saturday August 24, after a delightful evening with his family. I was in Rochester sailboat racing, and it was the first time John and I had met in person.
We talked about the personal risks of getting sued (and in my case, fired as chief engineer at Medtronic Diabetes) if we combined our code and open-sourced it.
We talked about how it was unfair for other families not to benefit from this transformative technology, and decided the community benefits outweighed our personal risks.
It took a few months of gestation and hard work along with Ross Naylor before Nightscout was born - and open-sourced - at Amy Tenderich's DData 2013. Howard Look and Brandon Arbiter were among the very first to use the newly open-sourced code.
The rest, as they say, is history."
Lane Desborough, Co-Founder of Nightscout