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by bgraves
5243 days ago
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I use paper + pencil to track my Simple Fit workouts now and have never used a voice-controlled app for fitness. A few questions: 1. Have you considered adding a demo video? Although your screen shots are well done, I'd love to see the app in action. 2. Can you do more than track reps & sets? I find that most fitness apps are not flexible enough for Simple Fit or interval type training. 3. Can you talk about the app development process? How was the original idea formulated, validated, etc? Did you outsource the development? Any other interesting insights? |
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2) I primarily built it for myself, and I mostly do weight training at a gym. So there are a few features that may be helpful for interval training (superset support automatically advances forwards and backwards when you add a new set, rest timer buzzes when its time to get going again), but I'm not sure how helpful v1 would be for you. I want build on this to make it useful to as many people as possible. I'm not very familiar with Simple Fit, so if you have any ideas on how a voice controlled logger would ideally meet your needs, please let me know.
3) Sure. The idea came about pretty simply -- I tried out every possible workout app because I don't like carrying a pen and paper around with me. I found every one to have the same weakness -- they require you to take out your phone/ipod after every set to input data. I was already using a headset with a microphone to listen to my music while I exercised, so I figured why not put it to use? I didn't validate the idea at all. I figured that worst case scenario, I would build an app that allowed me to track my own workouts and manage my progress how I wanted it to be done. I did the development myself over the course of several long months. One of the features that I find most useful is that saying "skip track" will automatically skip to the next track in itunes. Because the iphone/ipod dont have hardware skip buttons, this is really helpful because I used to have to take out my ipod, unlock it, go to the music app, and tap skip. There are a few features like this and I don't think I would have been able to come up with them unless I was building it for myself and constantly testing it and finding its weaknesses.