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Tomas_Metcalfe··on Show HN: SwiftMo Power captures real-time exercise kinematics from a webcam
I made a mistake with the last launch with a stupid dead link on a landing-page I vibe coded. I'm not against "agents" but seldom use them, I opened an exception for the UI since I had neglected an onboarding flow thinking people would go blog -> app. Lo and behold the agent which worked quite well puts in a deadlink... Anyway, lesson learned.

The app uses machine vision to infer exercise kinematics and from there a whole lot more (fatigue inference, training suggestions, ideal load calculations). I don't feel like a waste of time because it's a technical accomplishment and I know my idea will become normalized in a few years. There is clear value in this product.

https://app.swiftmo.com

I'll coach any new sign ups free of charge if they want because I can learn from them. It has a "human in the loop" feature where video and kinematics are displayed from a client's training session so active feedback and corrections can be given.

Tomas_Metcalfe··on Show HN: SwiftMo Power captures real-time exercise kinematics from a webcam
Good point.

I'd envisaged the path https://app.swiftmo.com/#/landing-page -> https://app.swiftmo.com/#/stage/:manualMode/:demo

I'll load a video explanation into the demo. Thanks!

Tomas_Metcalfe··on Show HN: SwiftMo Power captures real-time exercise kinematics from a webcam
I've built a fitness app that derives exercise kinematics from ordinary video

I ran Reddit ads recently. They generated very good click-through rates, but essentially no signups.

I will be honest, I had not given onboarding a single thought till the app was mostly built… Hence I put together the landing page, demo and map app with training spots and “bar bounty” leaderboards, these parts were made with AI tools. The rest was a 2.5 year slog built on decades of coding, sport science , and AI since before transformers were a thing (not quite a full decade)

Please help me with your perspective: * Is the landing page too opaque, to “AI-esque”? * Is the product difficult to understand because it doesn't fit an existing category? * Is the copy bad? Specifically the blog: swiftmo.com * Is this simply a case of needing more traffic/patience? * Is exercise just a hard sell?

You can demo the core feature here: https://app.swiftmo.com/#/stage/:manualMode/:demo

The landing page: https://app.swiftmo.com/#/landing-page

Looking at the landing page/demo first can you tell me:

* What do you think this product does? * Who do you think it's for? * What problem do you think it solves? * What did you expect it to do before I explained it? * Why would you sign up — or why wouldn't you? * Is there an obvious value proposition that I'm completely failing to communicate?

Tomas_Metcalfe··on Show HN: A JavaScript calendar for real world appointments
I made this calendar app a few years ago after being frustrated by the calendar app jQueryUI and not wanting to load jQuery for a calendar.

The calendar was designed for real world businesses to take appointments and set opening or closing hours, hence localization is implicit (based on the location of the business.

The calendar is JS plus CSS but could easily be pure JS. It uses no libraries and has no dependencies, so it is quite "plug and play".

I'm not a professional developer, but am looking to become one so any criticism of my work is more than welcome!