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This project began just over a year ago on the side as a mobile workout log tailored to my exact needs (which are very minimalist). Since then, maintaining the app has allowed me to learn a bit about marketing, support, user feedback, and the mobile app market. My long term goal is to make enough money off this to work on it full time, which requires monetizing it, but that's likely a long way off.

I'm posting this here because I've read Hacker News for quite a few years now, and I know there are many people here who (1) exercise, (2) have more experience in every aspect of what I'm trying to do, and (3) will tear this to shreds. Please don't hold back.

Let me know what you think, feel free to ask any questions, and thanks in advance for any feedback!

Note: This is currently only available in the United States and in Canada. Let me know if you'd like me to make it available in any other countries; it may be a bit slow to login, though, since the servers are located in central United States.

From the screenshots it really looks simple. Any chance to make this available in Germany?

Definitely. It should be available in Germany (iOS and Android) in a couple hours, after the store listing updates.

It's available, thank you! I'll give it a try this evening.

Is there a plan to add any pre-defined workouts for easy tracking? I:E stronglifts 5x5, madcow, 5/3/1 etc. I currently use the SL5x5 app since I am doing that program, but don't want to lose any progress tracking on the main lifts if I ever switch to another program.

That's close to the top of my task list. I use it for 5x5 currently, so the existing routines feature caters to that type of plan. It's just missing the week-by-week scheduling for high level progress stats. I currently have two routines that I alternate between: StrongLifts A, and StrongLifts B. This has worked well in the interim while I work on higher level planning.

The app currently makes it easy to deviate from a routine by allowing you to start out-of-routine exercises at any time. The same flexibility will apply to routines and longer term plans; doing ad-hoc routines won't lose your 5x5 progress.

Easily transitioning onto and off of the app is also important to me, so I'm adding exercise import/export. You'll be able to use spreadsheets to transition history into and out of the app.

Great! Thanks for the follow up.

Is there any specific reason why it requires me to register account with my Name and Email?

Seems pretty overkill for a fancy number-saver. Is "offline" mode planned?

It's there for:

- Associating online backups with your account, and securing them.

- Transferring history between devices (phone and watch, phone and browser, etc...).

- Generating graphs/analysis (more to come soon).

- Generating shareable images of workouts.

The whole app works offline currently, so it's a somewhat trivial feature to add. Is that a deal breaker for you? It was on my list, but I didn't have it as a high priority.

huge gains bro! and nice app bro!

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