brianmwang

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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   We experienced something very similar when drumming up interest in my startup, Fitocracy, on the r/fitness section of Reddit. The key here, which should be quite obvious, is to find your target audience and then get your message to them.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   If you want free music, particularly on your own terms, why not just use Grooveshark? Finding free music on the internet hasn't been a problem for a long while.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   To be clear, I'm not the post's author. I just know the guy!
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   The Day After You Get Funded(tout.ly)

   53 points by brianmwang 15y ago|14 comments
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   I'm genuinely curious to hear why you're so obstinate in your refusal to exercise.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   You can always make the photo border a subtle off-white like #FAFAFA.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   Tell your wife that the sentiment is very much appreciated.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   Why do you think your motivation wanes after a few weeks? I'm genuinely curious.
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   by brianmwang 15y ago

   I'll preface this by saying my partner and I have been actively living fitness/bodybuilding-oriented lifestyles for quite a while, so we understand the motivations behind why people use these sorts of tools. While some people are into Fitoc
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Appreciate the thoughts. The 16k is total registered users at this point, though it's worth noting that we're invite only.
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    Getting to 5,000 Users after Launching on HN(blog.idonethis.com)

    3 points by brianmwang 15y ago|0 comments
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Thanks for the thoughts! 1. We're focusing on exercise for now as we want to make sure it's executed well. Long term we definitely envision including nutrition as well. 2. Some form of this is planned. 3. See: #2 :) -Brian
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    We intend to build out functionality to let us offer programs around specific goals. The quest system is a precursor to this, but the idea is to have a fun way of offering structured guidance to the user and move them to specific outcomes.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    We're still pretty early on in development. Fitness insights and guidance tools are absolutely planned :)
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Yes, we do plan on further fleshing out the groups feature soon. One idea we're bouncing around is having a PvP style challenge system between groups, or I suppose more appropriately, GvG :)
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback, dkarl. We've had a largely positive response to our achievements system thus far but I agree that they aren't necessarily beginner friendly. We do intend on fleshing out the system more to support achievements for
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    I would vehemently disagree with the statement that it's "Facebook for gym rats" or that it doesn't provide value outside of updating your FB profile with your workout logs, but thanks for the opinion.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    I don't seem to be getting this issue on Chrome / OS X. What are you running on?
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    I just reloaded the code with 350 more invites.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    By all means :)
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Hey Jayson, Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Responses below: 1) Design is certainly something I'd like to work on improving. As noted in the OP, I handle the design for Fitocracy which is a bit funny, since I was pretty much a total b
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Hey Jon, You can email me at brian [at] fitocracy <dot> com.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    I am indeed! I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    We already have quite a few bodyweight exercises on the site, though the scoring system for them is a little borked and is in need of an overhaul. Yoga is also on the site as well. Regarding the internal server error, did that occur right
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Hey, thanks for the feedback on netbook resolution. I clearly overlooked that when designing the flow on the workout tracker page. I'll try to get that fixed asap.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    We freely admit that there's a heavy skew toward weightlifting on the site at the moment, but we're focusing on adding more quests/achievements around cardio and other activities quite shortly.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    Duly noted. As mentioned, I'm no creative/graphics designer but we're hoping to have somebody with those talents join the team down the line.
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    http://www.fitocracy.com/profile/xenowang
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    We only use FB and Twitter for easy sign-up/sign-in. We'll be introducing posting to FB wall / tweeting workouts/achievements soon, but that will be totally optional. We'll never post to your social network accounts without your explicit
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    by brianmwang 15y ago

    A photo isn't required for signup. You can just use the generic silhouette image for your profile image. Image resize/distortion is something we will fix in a future update.