BearyStronk - Take on simple fitness challenges solo or with friends

@toniko Thanks a lot for checking it out and let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it better :)

@philantrofoot Thanks for your feedback! The initial thought was to make it really simple so others could get started with familiar exercises but the ask for more advanced routines seems to have come up in a few other comments as well so you're definitely on to something. I'll explore how I can segregate different levels of fitness to make this a bit more progressive. I really like your idea of sharing workouts, it will surely bring an element of variation as well so others can take inspiration from them. Will definitely be adding this as a feature soon so look out for i!

@agileexec20 Thanks for your feedback! Indeed it can't be a gym replacement unless the correct workouts get loaded and tailored to a particular user. It can probably function as an accessory companion to more structured routines already being followed e.g. non gym days, filler exercises for body weight workouts or just a straight-up fun thing to do with friends via the challenges. Another area of exploration is integration with Google's Gemini to ask a user questions on their goals and then transforming that into a proper gym routine but I still have some ways to go in getting it to play nice with the existing app. I'll update if I get something decent in place to address your thoughts :)

@nifal_adam2 Thank you for your supportive and hilarious comment! I certainly do hope it helps and that you'll be 'beary' strong in no time :)

@adhimediaguru Thanks for your feedback! I'll take a closer look at Nike Training Club and 7 Minute Workout to get a better sense of how to differentiate this meaningfully which might also give me an idea of how to sync with smartwatches / fitness trackers. Having a tighter integration to these devices might also help with user retention which would then form a positive loop for exercising and improving. Loving your suggestions so far, did you also have any specific thoughts on what might be gamified element? Group challenges do offer a tiny bit of that but only within that sub-group so I'll have a deeper think about what might be something fun at the community level :)

@aitrainerjb Thanks for your feedback! For longer term usage I'd definitely agree with you and echoes some sentiment from other comments as well. An idea I had filed away for later on was to allow users to share their workouts such that other users could try them out - that might make it more interactive as workout creators could see that other users were attempting their routine and also add more variety into what was available in the app today. Do you think that might be something worth looking into? The real-time leaderboards are a great idea! Was there a particular aspect you thought they might want to compete on e.g. number of workouts completed, exercises done? A form of leaderboards currently only exist in group challenges but I'll brainstorm some variation where it might make sense for the general community as well :)

@danielinmarketing Thanks for the feedback! I'm working through the anonymous analytics of active users and making a list of what can be pruned to focus the purpose of the app more, especially if it appears to be doing too much which probably confuses or overwhelms. The certificates are a tiny humor feature that I'll try to dial down, though the focus was really to highlight the percentage completion and consecutive days of the working out for the challenge which are the tough bits. Your other point on displaying enough value for switching to this is probably why I ended up adding too many accessory features, will definitely focus on refining it more :)

@acheteur01 Thanks for the feedback! When you create new workouts you can customise your own exercises and even add new ones that are not there, especially if you have a particular routine you'd like to try. The app then uses exercises from available workouts to suggest random ones so hopefully that makes your own setup more challenging than the initial downloaded version. There will always be that element of basic-ness to it though due to what you've mentioned but I'll look at how to make it better :) Regarding progress pictures you're right to be cautious as they tend to capture very intimate parts of ourselves that we might not ever be ready to share with others. The application directory's is stored locally in your phone which is not accessible by other apps and will never be uploaded unless you make them public in an album (which also warns you before you do it). The downside is that if you accidentally wipe your phone or uninstall the app you'll lose the captured progress pictures but that's preferable in this situation. If you have suggestions that will help you feel more reassured please let me know and I'll be sure to explore those!

@toshit_garg Thank you for your support! If you do try it out let me know if you have positive or negative feedback and I'll try to make it better :)