alt Hacker News15 Years of Building Jefit
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Anyone want to fix the typo in the title? Presumably “15 Years of Jefit”
It would be interesting to hear more about why the move to Silicon Valley was necessary.
"My team in North Carolina didn't want to relocate. If I moved, I'd be starting from scratch, with no team"
I wonder what was the problem with the existing team working remote?
It's nice to get a glimpse behind the scenes of JEfit.
I used this app when I got serious about my fitness journey around 8 years ago. I fell off from using it 4 or 5 years ago (no fault of the app.) I can honestly say, it made it really easy to stay consistent with my workouts and show up to the gym confident in my programming.
Perhaps what I love best about this story, and similar startup stories, is the purity of building something to solve a problem personally. Then when the success of that thing happens as a side effect, it seems more appropriate. Stories like this take me back to the simple joy of creating something useful.
I've been using JeFit for ~6 years (I have a lifetime premium, I think, due to buying the app in full when you could). It used to be a pretty ugly app but I've stuck with it because it was the only app that did the simple function of creating a routine with a schedule then logging your performance over time.
Always appreciate seeing small teams go into bare metal hosting!
(judging by the photo of them in front of HE FMT2 colo racks)
Still a happy user of this app, thanks for sharing your journey. Especially love the Apple Watch app
Misspelling in the title, not their fault
Longtime Jefit user. I respect that it the enshittifiction (e.g. locking "volume" charts behind a subscription) has been slow enough to not force me to another product. I've definitely encountered many many bugs, but only a few that have resulted in partial data loss.
Lots of respect with allowing data export in a simple format like .csv
Did the "recent" exercise sort get removed?
We need an examine.com for fitness. Too much slop out there.
youtube is FLOODED with free fitness content, I mean, you could workout for five years and never see the same video twice
its all evergreen - crunches from five years ago are just as good today
everyone I know who worked as a personal trainer has moved out of the industry
endless free resources out there
and then the content connected to devices like Peloton etc
not sure how you can make a buck in this business
want to track your progress? look in the mirror or guesstimate
Would be good to hear more details about the journey from bootstrapped North Carolina house to a decent-sized team out west.
Is Jefit profitable now? Then?
What were revenues like during those times?
What's the software stack?
Interesting challenges (esp. from a tech perspective)?