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by silentpost 4836 days ago
I saw this the last time it was (briefly) posted here. A couple of things I noticed:

* It'd be nice to have some sort of search feature for adding activities (incremental search or otherwise)

* On a similar note: if you don't see the exercise you're looking for on the exercise database, it'd be nice to be able to add the exercise from the same modal.

* it seems like there are a lot of missing workouts for strength. I know it's not easy to find a centralized database for exercise listings, but common things like 'squats' shouldn't be too hard to add in.

Definitely would like to see some sort of FitBit/Withings/Myfitnesspal/LoseIt! integration. It'd also be lovely to have charts documenting progress, and an ability to export to csv.

I think once the mobile apps come, this could be fantastic--I always have my phone at the gym for music, but will occasionally forget to bring a journal for tracking.
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mkeung 4836 days ago
yes, our servers were not ready then so we deleted the post within 10 minutes to not waste people's time.

Thanks for the suggestions, one idea with the exercise db we had is to allow users to submit new ones / update existing ones. We would have to approve it, so our db would stay clean. Thoughts?

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silentpost 4836 days ago
I think an admin approval would be a nightmare in terms of scalability. Why not crowdsource the approval system, with some sort of voting feature for user-submitted exercises?

check out myfitnesspal; they have user-submitted recipes. the recipes can either be private, or public with user-submitted confirmation on the ingredients/accuracy.

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squizzi 4836 days ago
Howdy, Kyle here (4th co-founder, designer on the team). Just to add to this, initially the Plans page was intended to be a Plans database with differing tabs of Plan related content and I think your comment solidifies the need for it. I love the idea of user-submitted voting and I think that would fit the bill for a tab within the 'Plans' page that shows publicly shared plans. Thank you for the feedback.
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kbouw 4836 days ago
Makes sense. We'll check it out, thanks.
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