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by acconrad 11y ago
I used Heroku, as there are buildpacks for Elixir and Phoenix for Heroku on github: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/heroku
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm not - I plan on turning this into a business, and will be including yoga studios as my next iteration.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Definitely working on that right now. People constantly move and travel, so they will be google searching for "gyms near X", so one strategy is SEO. The wow features I feel like are going to be in being able to buy gym passes onli
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by acconrad 11y ago
It's both :)
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by acconrad 11y ago
The original thought behind this experiment was to include quality gyms with a vast amount of equipment. Turns out that Crossfit gyms fit the bill there. I had a great data feed of them, so they represent about 90% of the gyms in the US on
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by acconrad 11y ago
Good grief that was a really long-winded way of saying "it depends on the person".
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by acconrad 11y ago
I finished up the first round of my side project: PeerGym http://www.peergym.com let's you search for quality gyms in your area by membership price and amenities - the kinds of things services like Google Maps and Yelp don&
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Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix(peergym.com)
33 points by acconrad 11y ago|54 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
You can further save by using something like Letscrypt[1] to handle your SSL for free: [1] https://letsencrypt.org/
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by acconrad 11y ago
It also depends on the data you want. Most data sources don't have all of the things you could want to use in order to create meaningful stats.
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is neat! But I would definitely use typical servings instead of the standard 100g servings. No one is going to have the money to eat 100g of oysters to get the 262% RDA of zinc, so it would be better to have it in the context of how pe
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by acconrad 11y ago
I never thought about it this way, and while you don't have to worry about brokerage accounts and minimum fees, you have to pay for accurate stats. Using a place like ProFootballFocus or StatsInc is going to cost you a pretty penny if
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by acconrad 11y ago
This isn't exactly a fair comparison. Bartenders are bound by law not to give drunks more alcohol because they could go drive a car and kill someone. A gambler is only hurting himself when he loses his money.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Not sure I understand the math behind your logic - unless you're assuming that you spend an entire year researching that 1 bet to have the best odds. In DFS, that would be like spending the entire off season researching Week 1 stats, s
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by acconrad 11y ago
I always have to preface these opinions with "I used to work in the industry" (I was a developer for a site that got acquired by one of the 2 outfits mentioned), so take this with a grain of salt: This guy was destined to be a suc
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by acconrad 11y ago
Does anyone else find it funny that the photo of Jesus didn't rank as Godlike?
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by acconrad 11y ago
Hey Erik, I hear you! It is clear from your website what your incentives and message are, but it was lost in the title for this post. I think you're making a lot of heavy-handed assertions: > help close the unemployment gap is ext
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is severely misleading. You're not guaranteed an offer - in fact it's the opposite. If you get an offer, you get your tuition back. So precisely those that are struggling to get an offer (and need education), they don'
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by acconrad 11y ago
I finished up the first round of my side project: PeerGym http://www.peergym.com let's you search for quality gyms in your area by membership price and amenities - the kinds of things services like Google Maps and Yelp don&
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm a bit leery to take advice from a person who is willing to take multiple DNA tests and analyze their research, and yet according to her About page, turned to Chinese medicine and practices quack pseudoscience herself. DNA tests hav
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by acconrad 11y ago
Flagged not only are all of the comments in here from newbies created right after the message was posted, but it's a series of platitudes not fit for the HN crowd specifically.
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by acconrad 11y ago
After some inspiration from this post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089 ) I got motivated to finish a side project I'd been working on and off for a little while. I've been wanting to play with Elixir
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Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix(peergym.com)
9 points by acconrad 11y ago|5 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
No idea how this has anything to do with the HN community, not to mention the poster is brand new.
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by acconrad 11y ago
You can distill this article into two key insights: 1. Find great people to believe in your vision . Without the two amazing coders to help him, he wouldn't have made much headway in the project at the beginning. To be able to convinc
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by acconrad 11y ago
After some inspiration from this post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089 ) I got motivated to finish a side project I'd been working on and off for a little while. I've been wanting to play with Elixir
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is pretty neat - how is this different from something like TheSquatRack ( http://thesquatrack.com/ )? Also how are you calculating your 1RM - Eplay? Bryzcki?
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by acconrad 11y ago
Same age as you, but in Boston, so relatively similar salary/cost-of-living. One question is - are you actually making $250k base? I feel like for many of these large companies, that's the total compensation package, and much of t
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by acconrad 11y ago
Right I'm well aware of the cost of living, but he did answer that he was 30 and living in SF. I live in Boston which is of relative cost-of-living (and salary) parity to SF, but you don't see $250k jobs being advertised for Googl
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by acconrad 11y ago
I think I asked this from you in another thread - but this advice feels difficult to follow. Are you in SF? Do you work at a company like Netflix which is known for paying very high salaries? Or are you not fully a developer, but in managem

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