Jorge Mena stopped paying $99 a year for a workout app and built Fitbite, just for himself
Jorge Mena was paying $99 a year for a workout app, so he built his own and called it Fitbite. It started with recipes: his most-cooked meals, their macros, and a one-tap shopping list that adds up shared ingredients and can be shared with his wife. Then the workouts moved in and the subscription got cancelled. The newest feature fixes a gym-floor annoyance: when the machine you need is taken, you swap the exercise mid-workout and it loads the weights you lifted last time. A paid fitness app benched by a one-person product team, built for exactly one user.
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I was paying $99 a year for a workout app.
So I built my own. It's called Fitbite, and it's just for me.
It started with recipes. I keep the ones I cook most, see their macros, and tap one button to get a shopping list. If two recipes need onions, it adds them up. I share the list with my wife or take it to the supermarket myself.
Then I added my workouts and cancelled the subscription.
Newest feature: the machine you need is taken halfway through a workout, so you swap the exercise right there. The new one comes up with the weights you lifted on it last time.
When you can build the app, you stop settling for someone else's.
— Jorge Mena, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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