| > What I feel is missing in the exercise app landscape is a product that is highly-usable to people and spans all types of activity. I have seen these features in exercise apps for nearly 10 years now. Fitbit's help page specifically mentions all of them except softball[1]. I don't really understand how this could go into a single chart. A chart of... what? A chart would make sense if the data is hours, heart rate, etc., but it's not really possible to know things like how many calories the person burned. Someone playing third base in softball is going to burn far fewer calories than, say, the pitcher. If the chart is just hours, then there are an endless number of apps that help you log exercise, including differentiating based no time and intensity. I'm not saying this is doomed to fail because of competition, but I think the competition is going to make it hard to break through the noise that consumers hear all the time. > Maybe we can think of a highly-leveraged trade like someone maxing out their back squat on their first day in the gym and severely injuring themselves. I genuinely get what you're saying, but I majored in finance, worked in finance, and have founded fintechs. This is emphatically not a "middle of the road," average-consumer messaging strategy. Robinhood's innovation wasn't removing barriers to investing. You could get free trades and access to varied asset classes with a lot of companies, starting all the way back in the early 2000s. Robinhood is notable because they harnessed the boredom, restlessness, and cash excesses of the pandemic. There's a reason WallStreetBets always had screenshots from Robinhood: it was catering specifically to risk-agnostic amateur investors, and it encouraged them to do risky and stupid things. That's not a model for an exercise app. I think you should just drop the Robinhood/finance comparison entirely, because it's going to confuse people. I'm still a little confused by it. I do like the idea of gamifying exercise, but again, there has been a glut of exercise apps (using all different approaches) and nothing has really stuck except Strava and some of the ones that are tied to fitness trackers. 1. https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1935.htm |
Maybe when money is involved ease of use leads to gambling, but I'll hope that when it's about tracking your exercise ease of use leads to exercise staying top of mind more often for people.
As for Steddy's chart, everything is based on RPE (rating of perceived exertion), which will probably bring you to tears of laughter, but a fair share of our users have found it useful.
This 1 minute demo I made might clarify whatever else is missing: https://t.co/rf0hBTptCV
But nothing replaces using it for yourself ;D