[dulyanov]

Hey HN,

We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software).

I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

[weaponizedwords]

Great Work! I love the clean layout and the focus on the user experience. I work in the fitness industry and think there is some great potential here. Especially in the personal trainer space. Keep it up! You are on to something here.

[dulyanov]

Thanks!

[m_a_g]

First of all, it looks great, good job! My question is that why do you limit yourself with only fitness? For example, study sessions are a great example that can benefit from your product.

[dulyanov]

Basically it was the use case for me personally. I had to spend 2 weeks on quarantine totally alone separated even from wife so we wanted to exercise together. But yeah, I think you are right, there are many potential use cases!

[amiga_500]

My wife and kids do a drawing session with the grandparents, so this is "instructor led from youtube":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjyfU0pHYc

As you say I'm sure there are many ideas.

[mistermann]

First thing that came to my mind too! Last night I watched a YouTube video with a friend, and we did a manual 5,4,3,2,1 countdown to synch, and then text chatted via WhatsApp, video chat of one's choosing could also be used. But rolling it all into one is nice.

It would be nice to be able to do the same thing with a shared Plex server, but not sure if that would be as easy.

[frankdenbow]

This is awesome and has a lot of potential to be a platform for fitness instructors to use to deploy their classes and do online training. I have had online coaches for a while and there isn't a great solution that is formatted for this use case. If a trainer can do a live class, with 20+ students who are paying, and have them be able to check everyone's form i a simple view, you are going to go very far.

[nathanieljewell]

Hey - looks great. We are building a video platform for an alpha project we have. Any interest in possibly helping join and build it out? Drop me an email: [e-mail]

[essayist]

If I created a Zoom meeting with the trainees, and shared my screen and computer audio running my training video, would I have the same experience?

Phrased in terms of Zoom since I've become oh so familiar with it these past few months. I see the value, since it's probably easier to connect to than a Zoom meeting.

[coopsmgoops]

Screen sharing videos on zoom had never been a great experience. I think the difference is that everybody is streaming the YouTube video here individually.

[maerF0x0]

+1 I get about 3FPS when sharing a youtube video across zoom screenshare

edit: on a very highspeed symmetric connection.

[dulyanov]

Yeah, we also though Zoom would do it, but sharing screen with a video works too bad.

[Elte]

Looks great! Is it too late to suggest a rename to co-fit? (Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

[ekulianova]

Thanks for the suggestion! The current name is not the final one:)