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I build FlexDropin, an app for booking a single gym class with no membership. Our founder, Maria, trains across several disciplines and no single gym offered them all. I had the same problem from the other side: I travel for work and kept failing to find a gym that would take me for one session. I work on the mobile app (React Native and Expo) and the Stripe Connect side that pays gyms directly. Happy to talk about two-sided marketplaces, and about why supply is the hard half.

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FlexDropinBook one gym class, skip the yearly contract
Oct 2026

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Joined Product HuntSeptember 21st, 2026

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2mo ago

Launching FlexDropin: book a single gym class, no membership

FlexDropin is an app for booking one gym class at a time, with no membership and no credit packs. It goes live on Product Hunt next week.

Where it came from: our founder trains across several disciplines Pilates, postural work and no single gym offered all of them, so committing to one meant dropping the others. I hit the same wall from the other side: I travel for work, and getting into a gym for a single session is usually a phone call, if it is possible at all.

How it works: gyms publish one-off or recurring classes with their own price and capacity and connect Stripe. The customer books and pays in the app, the money goes straight to the gym, and we take a commission only when a class sells. No fixed cost for the gym, which is the only reason a small independent place will try a new channel at all.

The hard part is not the app, it is supply. Every marketplace says this and I now understand why: the consumer side was the easy half.

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2mo ago

What stopped you the last time you wanted to train somewhere new?

FlexDropin goes live here on September 30. It does one thing: you book and pay for a single gym class, with no membership and no credit packs.

The idea came from our founder Maria, who trains across several disciplines and could never find one gym that covered them all. I hit the same wall from the other side: I travel for work, and getting into a gym for one session is usually a phone call, if it's possible at all.

Before launch day I'd like to hear from people who train: what actually stopped you the last time you wanted to work out somewhere you don't have a membership? Price, not knowing if drop-in was even allowed, or just not wanting to ask?

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2mo ago

What I learned publishing 80 sourced statistics before launching

Before launching our app I spent a day building a page of 80 statistics about drop-in fitness in the US, each with a primary source, a data year and a permanent anchor link. Three things I did not expect: 1. Most "industry statistics" you find are blogs citing blogs. I dropped about a third of what I collected because I could not reach a primary source. Gym churn numbers are the worst offenders. 2. Writing a script that re-fetches every source and checks the figure still appears in the document caught a real mistake: I had written that 67% of members pay under $100 a month, when the source says under $50. That would have been quoted back at me. 3. The page is now the thing I send to journalists instead of a pitch. It works better than describing the product, because it gives them something to use. The boring part is the verification, and it is the part you cannot skip: one wrong number quoted in an article is permanent. For anyone who has done this: do you keep the sources in the page itself or in a separate document, and how do you handle a source that goes offline a year later?