Next! Fitness

A.I. powered gym

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Next! Is an A.I. powered gym. You work out with smart mirrors. The mirrors demo how to do each workout, counts your reps, gives feedback on form, and adds gamification. Computer vision automatically tracks workouts. You can check all your metrics in an app.
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Derek Pankaew
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Maker
Hey Hunters, We’re Derek & Eric, a team deeply passionate about health & fitness. We built Next! Because we thought fitness is broken. 80% of gym users quit before achieving their goals. We thought this had to change. We wanted to build a gym that makes working out easy, fun, and effective. A gym that: --- Plans all your workouts for you, --- Shows you how to do new exercises, --- Automatically tracks your workouts, --- Lets you measure your body fat %, --- Gives you feedback on your form --- Gamifies the experience, to make it fun & interesting Nothing like this existed. So we decided to build it. Using an Amazon Go-like system, we’ve built a gym that gives you a “personal trainer experience”, without having to pay for one. For our launch, we’re giving away stock options, free memberships, and a bunch of other prizes. I hope you’ll check it out! Derek & Eric, -- Next! Fitness Team Technology Note: Our tech stack includes ML models we’ve trained from scratch, including YOLO-based object detection models and Hourglass-based pose estimation models. Happy to answer any questions about our tech! Privacy Note: All our inference is processed offline, no data is sent to cloud providers like AWS. No personally identifiable visual exercise data is ever stored, on our servers or cloud servers.
Mike Ritchie
SeekWell
@derekpankaew a bit of feedback on the video: i like **real** footage. I’d much rather watch you as the founder show a real person using it for the first time how it works.
evel yco
It sounds really cool, but I’m not a fan of applications like that. I honestly don’t believe it since an application won’t be able to understand what my body needs. All of my life I had been really lazy and unfit but eight months ago I decided to change that. I decided that I had to find a personal trainer who would help me change my body. I asked around, and everyone said that Lucas James had the best personal training program. I decided to give it a shot, and I wasn’t disappointed at all. This man changed my life and all of my habits. Today I’m a fit and happy man who is still improving.
Edison Espinosa
Wow. This looks amazing, curious to hear how long you've been working on this idea, I can see this really growing!
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@edisonjoao6871 Thanks Edison! We've been working on it for about a year. Developing each computer vision model - like the ability to detect barbells, or to know where your arms & legs are - took 1-2 months each. The smart mirror took a couple months as well. The iOS app took 2 months to develop. Raising VC money also took a couple months. Then we actually built a gym in San Francisco, installed all the systems, and got the whole system to work together. In total, we've been working on it for about a year. We're super excited to finally share what we've been working on 😁
Edison Espinosa
@derekpankaew thank you for sharing the timeline and a bit of insight. As a fellow founder, hearing that part and the finish product always inspires me. Congrats man! Can't imagine how you must feel seeing your vision come to life. Can't wait to either go to one when in San Fran or for when you guys expand to South Florida! All the best!
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@edisonjoao6871 Awesome! Can't wait for you to try it as well. Drop me an email when you're in SF :) derek@nextfitness.ai
Edison Espinosa
@nextfitness @derekpankaew Without a doubt!
Anna Costalonga
wow, this product looks SO cool! I would have liked to see a bit more how the Smart Mirror works, I am so curious now...
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@adsidera1 Hi Anna! I love the excitement 😁I think it looks cool too! (I’m a little biased obviously) The smart mirror does a few things: - It shows you the workout plan for today (you can also check or edit it in the app), - It demonstrates how to do new workouts (form, pacing, etc), - It counts your reps as you’re doing them, - It gives you encouragement & challenges you to push a little further, - It checks your form, which helps prevent injuries, - After finishing an exercise, it shows you where in the gym to go for your next exercise This is just what we’re starting with, we’re planning to add more to the mirror as we go :)
Raj Mahal
Idea is interesting. I watched the video and it was good except for the black curtain in the background. How much will the gym be per a month?
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@parag_r It depends on the city. For reference, in San Francisco, Equinox is $350 a month and Barry's Bootcamp is $400. That said, Crunch and Fitness SF are $60 to $90 a month. We're starting at $150 a month in our SF location, with no hidden fees (initiation fees, annual fees, cancellation fees, etc). Memberships will be a lot less in other cities, like Atlanta or Austin, where real estate is less expensive. tbh we're still figuring it. Basically we're aiming to price below Equinox but more than Crunch.
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@parag_r Black curtains - Yeah :P I wish we could have gotten rid of those as well. The gym is full of mirrors, and many mirrors reflect other mirrors. In other words, each bench press is reflected like 5 times because of all the mirrors. It looks good in person - most gyms have mirrors around all the walls - but on video it looks chaotic. The background would distract from the foreground. So we had to curtain it out.
Raj Mahal
@derekpankaew Ahh okay. I was wondering what was going on with it because the video production is high but I didn't understand why those curtains were there haha.
Austin Mckay
Looks awesome! I never get to see my progress because I'm too lazy to track my workouts. The tracking and games sound really motivating. And I love the fact that it could turn a workout into a social experience. I'll be first in line!
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@austin_mckay Hey Austin! I agree, workout tracking is a big pain point for a lot of poeple. As the saying goes, "what you measure improves". Many gym-goers just grab whichever dumbbell feels heavy, and it's difficult to make deliberate progress that way. Glad you'll be joining us! Excited to have you as a member :)
Roland Polzin
That's fantastic!!! Finally! :D
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@rolandpolzin Thanks Roland! I love the enthusiasm. I'm just curious - which part of this gym are you most excited about?
Roland Polzin
@derekpankaew I love the social connection part. In all the gyms I know it's just people working out next to each other, mostly unwilling/unable to socialize.
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@rolandpolzin Awesome, thanks for the feedback! That's something I've noticed as well, and something I want to change. The YMCA did a study on what keeps people coming back to their gyms. It turned out that people who made at least 3 friends were much, much more likely to come back. Yet, surprisingly, very few gyms focus on helping people socialize. We'd love to create an actual community, rather than just a gym, so that's definitely gonna be a focus for us :)
Lucy Guo
Pitch a Date
Derek is one of the most brilliant engineers I've ever met. I backed him within 30 minutes of meeting him. Can't wait to try the gym out. :)
Derek Pankaew
Listening.io
Maker
@lucy_guo Lucy was our very first investor! Thank you so much for the early vote of confidence, you really helped us get off the ground!
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