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Hi HN! We’ve been working hard on this for the last year, and I’m super excited to share this with you guys. We built an A.I. powered gym. At our gym, everyon

Hi HN! We’ve been working hard on this for the last year, and I’m super excited to share this with you guys. We built an A.I. powered gym. At our gym, everyone works out in front of smart mirrors. The mirrors demo how to do each workout, counts your reps, gives you feedback on form, and adds gamification. We use computer vision to automatically track workouts. All the data is pulled to a smartphone app at the end. Essentially we built a gym that gives everyone a personal trainer, for free. Happy to answer any question! :) Derek Technology Note: Our tech stack includes ML models we’ve trained from scratch, including YOLO-based object detection models (for tracking dumbbells & barbells) and Hourglass-based pose estimation models. Happy to answer any questions about our tech. Technical demo: https://youtu.be/4a_U00KZ7uo https://youtu.be/4a_U00KZ7uo 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.

billconan 7y ago
Interesting! Where is the physical location? I had the same idea last year after seeing mirror.co. And I did some market research. The market for gym equipment and personal trainer seems to be small. https://www.statista.com/topics/5325/fitness-equipment-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/5325/fitness-equipment-in-th... https://askwonder.com/research/us-fitness-industry-market-size-and-growth-dmwycb724 https://askwonder.com/research/us-fitness-industry-market-si... One investor told us, they won’t invest in a market smaller than $10b.
- derekpankaew 7y ago
  We're in San Francisco, 5th and Folsom. The personal training market is about 8B and the equipment industry is 5B, but the gym industry itself is about 85B per year. That's consumers paying gyms money, rather than gyms buying equipment. So we're going after a fairly huge market :)

billconan 7y ago

Interesting! Where is the physical location? I had the same idea last year after seeing mirror.co. And I did some market research. The market for gym equipment and personal trainer seems to be small. https://www.statista.com/topics/5325/fitness-equipment-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/5325/fitness-equipment-in-th... https://askwonder.com/research/us-fitness-industry-market-size-and-growth-dmwycb724 https://askwonder.com/research/us-fitness-industry-market-si... One investor told us, they won’t invest in a market smaller than $10b.

derekpankaew 7y ago
We're in San Francisco, 5th and Folsom. The personal training market is about 8B and the equipment industry is 5B, but the gym industry itself is about 85B per year. That's consumers paying gyms money, rather than gyms buying equipment. So we're going after a fairly huge market :)