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Show HN: I built an app that personalizes home workouts
Hey HN,
I’ve built and bootstrapped PARIAN. It designs personalized workouts so you reach your fitness goal quickly and efficiently. By training only with goal-specific exercises tailored to your experience level and preferred equipment (or just bodyweight), you skip the wasted time, effort, and disappointment. No more doom scrolling exercises, being overwhelmed by how to plan them, and being bombarded by noise from all the fitfluencers. You workout with confidence knowing each exercise is intentional and each session is moving you forward. Plus, you have the freedom to customize your program at any moment, ensuring the training is enjoyable - thus ensuring consistency.
I believe fitness is not a lifestyle, but a core part of life and wanted to create something that will assist this pursuit of going after your fitness potential. And instill the excitement of all the new doors that will open up - bouldering, boxing, breakdancing, you name it.
Being non technical I naturally leaned towards no-code platforms. Started building on Bubble in 2022 and launched the demo that December. I got some assistance from friends with html, css, and js along the way and officially launched the MVP in Feb 2023.
The fitness app space is crowded, and ones that tailor workouts already exist—so why build this? Saturation is demand, and it’s easier to stand out in a crowd than to create your own market. When you break it down, most of the apps aren't personalized. Majority are workout trackers/loggers or just have a selection of pre-made workouts.
The few apps that do personalize workouts create subpar programs with surface level tutorials and lack support, guidance, and customization.
Additionally, even the most popular apps in this space have:
— Questionable exercise selection
— Exercise redundancy in the workouts
— Excessive training volume
— Require constant input throughout workouts
The gap between 0 support and minimal structure (youtube/pdf plans), and hiring a personal trainer at a gym for hundreds of dollars is huge. While both have their time and place, I believe most would actually benefit working out with an app. Training from home, with bodyweight/available equipment is the fastest way to start that fitness journey - leveraging the device you spend the most time with. PARIAN is more than a workout tracker & planner - it’s a savvy training partner that guides you through personalized workouts and expedites your fitness journey.
Just shipped an update, try a demo workout here — https://parianlabs.com/demo-workouts https://parianlabs.com/demo-workouts
Follow our journey — @parianlabs on insta
Feedback and support is much appreciated!
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- 4b11b4 2y agoWow, stretch lab might have just saved my life.
- IvanG96 2y agoHell yea! What did you like most about it? We're actually working right now on adding real videos and audio to the tutorials. Should ship in a few months.
- susa_berry 2y ago[dead]
- MrJohz 2y agoIt looks like there's slightly too much padding and it doesn't quite fit on my phone's screen - it seems designed for a tablet-sized device, but everything I see on the screen would fit very well on a phone screen. Indeed, if I zoom out, everything does fit on the screen properly, it's just that the default zoom means I have to scroll to get around. But the idea looks useful, and the idea of having it on the device you're always using anyway is sensible.
- IvanG96 2y agoThanks for the feedback! Yea our devices are insanely capable and pretty much an extension of us now. The goal is to make this screen time productive and healthy. Do you remember which specific page or element looked like it had a bit too much padding and wasn't fitting correctly on your phone? That would be super helpful. If anything else comes to mind, please don't hesitate to reach out. Always happy to hear from users and improve the experience any way I can.
- MrJohz 2y agoIt's specifically when I click on the demo workouts link in your post - when I click the main link to your site, everything seems to work fine (although I haven't finished the onboarding process). When I click on that on my phone (Moto G5+, Firefox), most of the page is cut off, and I need to scroll around to see anything. It's like the page is designed for a device about twice the size of my one, and my browser has zoomed into the upper-left corner. I'm on my phone so I can't explore further, but my guess is that the viewport settings aren't right for that page specifically, or there's some element with a min-width that's making the page wider than it needs to be. I get the same effect on mobile Chrome so I assume it's more about the display size then the browser.