mkeung's comments

It's nice you can import your posterous site (taken from the signup page)

"The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it."

Not completely true, Disney has their own dev team and they licensed Temple Run to make their own versions. Still though, it's not a risky bet as it's licensing something successful already.

Edit: also not in the AAA part of the industry

Playing with it now, it's simple and straight forward. I'll see if it'll convince me to get more sleep. A couple things that I found odd: 1. What does the password color rectangle thing on signup mean? I know it had to do with password strength but the colors didn't make any sense.

2. I am doing a simple yes no question, it wasn't clear that checking the box = yes, and unchecked = no. I thought it was just missing a yes checkbox at first.

Fixed

Not yet but it's in the plans.

We do plan on making a mobile app. We just didn't agree with the direction the existing services were headed, we have a bigger vision for Thryv..this is just our initial release. One hint at where we are headed is the support for connecting with personal trainers that we're working on.

We think we fixed it

So it's free for personal use, with the paid accounts in the works.

As far as FB connect, it's in the plans.

BTW, hijacking this post to say we're having sign up issues right now.

We plan to charge professional services you connect to. It will be always be free for personal use.

we're looking into this

The additional description is feasible it's just a matter of time really. As far as number of reps, it's by each exercise within it so we can account for more scenarios.

As far as analytics...i'm excited with the ideas we have for that, we just couldn't make them happen for this launch

ty gailwinds, we'll add your ideas to our discussions on how to handle public workout plans

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?

For the mobile apps we agree that speed is important. We actually debated using phonegap or titanium studio but after playing with apps built on those platforms we decided to go with the native routes for both.

edit: i'm taking a look at RoutineTap, i'll give you some feedback once I get more time (olark + comments here are blowing us up)

bvsatyaram and kbouw are my fellow co founders.

noted, thanks for the marketing + date tip

1. In the plans 2. we haven't decided how to interact with other services yet, but we def want to 3. I actually haven't looked at LoseIt! myself, i'll do that

The problem with #2 is that we don't want to start having to juggle multiple APIs. There are so many fitness services out there, so we might start with the most popular such as Runkeeper

It's funny because I haven't been able to workout this week because of server prep to handle HN traffic

We’ve been working off personal assumptions and need to get external feedback, so we appreciate any comments on everything from the landing page to the tools themselves.

I found that when it comes to workouts I have a set plan that I follow, but other trackers are limited to tracking <= today and don’t handle > today very well, so my friends and I are building this web workout planner, with mobile apps to come.

The way it works is you create a workout plan, with however many days you want, then put it on your calendar (ex: recurring weekly). Each day, all the scheduled exercises are given to you in a list that you check off. It lets you change fields if you deviate (or add stuff if you’re ambitious), but for the most part when we’re in the gym we just focus on completing the workout.

In the backend, activities are isolated from their plan as soon as you start tracking so you can deviate from the plan without affecting goals or update the plan without affecting history.

We also gave the workout planner Google doc like collaboration / sharing capabilities, although right now you won’t see changes made by others at the same time until you refresh.

Thanks in advance.

what about also basing it on saved designs? the first x are free, then it costs y for additional