BearyStronk is a fitness app with simple, mostly at home routines for those who can't spend dedicated hours in the gym. Take on 1 - 4 week challenges with friends for some fun or go solo with pre-made and generated workouts that get you going immediately!
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Love the concept, @bearystronk! The struggle is real when it comes to fitting exercise into a busy schedule. Your approach to short workouts feels like the perfect solution for all of us trying to balance work and fitness. The idea of having fun with friends while pushing each other sounds great too! I can see how the โno pressureโ vibe will make it easier for folks to stick with it. Plus, privacy for my progress pics? Genius! Excited to check it out and join a few challenges. Letโs crush those goals! ๐ช
@lambert1998 Thanks a lot for the support, it means a lot to me! I really hope it'll make a positive difference to you and your friends but let me know if I can improve it further :)
@kate_prasniak Thanks for your feedback! I was a bit cautious in doing this immediately as it could raise concerns on the progress picture portion which is meant to be really private, but I'm really encouraged by your suggestion so I shall take a closer look at how to make that available selectively :)
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Now this is something I would love to try out! Good work guys...
@fredrick_momanyi Thanks a lot for your support! Let me know if I can make it any better and I'll be glad to explore those areas :)
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Sure looks like a fitness app made for couch potatoes, the idea of simple routines is cool, but I'm skeptical if such short workouts will make any real difference, innovation often feels half-baked without a deeper commitment to quality, would love to hear others' thoughts.
@techinnovatorevp Thanks for your feedback! The app could possibly be improved by 'growing together' with the user in offering harder or longer routines as the user returned and successfully completed previous ones. Do you think that might make a bigger difference in the longer term? If you have any other thoughts on making it feel less trifling I'd love to explore those further :)
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So we have another fitness app right, I get the idea of home routines and challenges with friends, but are we really addressing the root issue of people not wanting to work out or is this just another app theyโll download and forget in a week, looks fun but unless it can truly motivate people beyond the initial excitement its just more digital clutter, curious to see if anyone disagrees
@bizgrowthleader Thanks for your thoughts! My own thoughts to this are that if someone has even a tiny bit of motivation than the app should somehow amplify that repeatedly for that user's journey to be successful. The app's angle on this is to try and build out a habit of doing something / anything initially and expand on top of that but I'm sure it can be better. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it more useful or sticky so that it can really make a positive difference to users? I'd love to explore more techniques and ways of presenting motivational hooks to bring users back for a longer term, even if it's just general advise for building better apps rather than specific to BearyStronk.
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Sounds interesting but not sure how effective home routines are without the right guidance feels like anyone can make an app with random workouts it's not a gym replacement, guess we'll see how it does ๐
@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 :)
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I get the whole idea of being too busy for gym time but this app almost feels like it's trying too hard to be everything at once, the group challenge bit is cool but do people really want to get shareable certificates for doing push-ups, also, the privacy with progress pictures sounds good but I can't help but wonder if that's enough to make folks switch from what they're already used to.
@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 :)
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