We had a similar programming problem for a Capstone project. We were told it was for solar panel tracking, but it could have easily been applied to something else.
This reminds me of that scene in Silicon Valley where Bertram tells Dinesh he can make a friend just as good as his friend. Someone told me a while ago if you want to have a personal connection you have to be personable yourself and tell someone something honest and truthful. I've had much better luck since then. The middle box on this diagram is good advice.
How about just enabling Shadow copies by default! I don't understand why Windows has great "Time machine like features", but every fucking time I right click and go to Properties and look at the "Previous versions" tab and it is completely empty.
I use the app I made studysauce.herokuapp.com for memorization. Google calendar for tracking progress and lots of personal analytics. I spend about a day on little set up projects such as connecting to Watson, or adding up calendar events using Google API, or learning the basic of some new framework. I'll do one of these little projects 1 to 4 times per month. Reading other people's research is a good starting point for me. I wish API's weren't so expensive. That is cost prohibitive of my turning a little app I write in a weekend in to a product. No one wants to pay 30 dollars on top of my 20 dollar monthly expense. If my use case ends up costing more than about $5 per month, I try it out and then shut it down. Usually there is no output from my adventures except self-improvement, which is pretty disappointing, I'll admit.
Um. Ok, something is wrong with your UI. There is no options to use Object Storage after signing up and required to enter a credit card. The drop down menu font is blurry. Support page takes about 30 seconds to load.
Wells Fargo decided I had to pay a $50 fee for a failed transaction even though my mortgage was already paid for the month. They refused to remove the fee even though they could produce a signed transfer of service disclosure.