Maroun@maroun · Product Designer, Change Collective
I've been a user of Fitocracy since you guys first launched on Reddit. I absolutely love the product you guys have built and have recommended it several times throughout the years. A couple questions: 1. To me, Fitocracy hits several big areas of fitness/health: Tracking, Knowledge, Social. With all of those being such wide open fields how do you choose wh… See more
Brian Wang@brianmwang · Product, Credit Karma. CEO, Fitocracy
@maroun Hey Maroun, thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad to hear that Fitocracy has continued to be valuable for you over the years. To answer your questions... 1. Deciding on what to focus on is a big challenge. I'd say that we attempt to solve a problem based on how much lasting impact it will have across our users, while factoring in our available reso… See more
Maroun@maroun · Product Designer, Change Collective
@brianmwang Fascinating, that's awesome that Knowledge has had such a powerful impact. You guys did put together one hell of a contributor list, I remember being really impressed with who was on there when it launched. One last question: - A lot of big products have been splitting their apps up into focused use cases. I.e Facebook -> Facebook messenger. … See more
Brian Wang@brianmwang · Product, Credit Karma. CEO, Fitocracy
@maroun Unbundling features into their own apps (so called "app constellations") is an attractive idea to us. We did this somewhat with the release of Fitocracy Macros (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...). We've entertained the idea internally for a little while, but don't have immediate plans to break things apart yet. Personally, I'd love to have a lighte… See more