mknippen

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by mknippen 6y ago
Wordpress and PHP
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by mknippen 6y ago
The bigger change was the difference per state, nearly double. (I paid it 100% out of pocket after I left my employer)
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by mknippen 6y ago
My apologies, let me clarify. We guarantee that we will provide value by offering a money-back guarantee in the first 7 days. If you don't find value, you don't need to pay. Many gyms work really hard to lock you into long-term co
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great question. We built the app in Native Swift, with UIKit, since when we started SwiftUI was not yet available. Since the release of iOS 13, we've built all of our new screens in SwiftUI, so we're now more than 50% on the new f
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by mknippen 6y ago
Pre-ordered one on Kickstarter. Still have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but the tagline got me. Hope it's awesome!
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by mknippen 6y ago
From a company perspective, that's our main goal. If we don't give you value, you don't say subscribed. If we do give value, we have runners that stay with us for years. While class sizes may differ, right now they're de
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great points. Ideally, we want to target all three phases. When training for a race, we want to offer classes that fit well into your training schedule. When you're not training and just going out for a fun run, we want to offer the mo
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great feedback. I completely understand that the price point may not be for everybody. We've done our best to keep the pricing competitive while still being able to pay our coaches fair wages. We've also tried to look at it from b
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by mknippen 6y ago
We do offer an On-Demand option if you'd like to see what it's like on your own! If you're someone who prefers running by themselves, this may be the best of both worlds. You can see what a live run would be like, without nee
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by mknippen 6y ago
I agree, purchasing it was not the hard part. It was the cost changing by state, specifically for Illinois. I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.
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by mknippen 6y ago
We do require an injury waiver for all users to agree to before accepting to hearing coaching advice
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by mknippen 6y ago
To be totally honest, health insurance has been awful as a contractor, and as a start-up entrepreneur. I was working for this large company for over a year, but because I was labeled as a contractor, health insurance was not provided. I hav
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by mknippen 6y ago
This is exactly it. I love Strava, however, if I want to feel like i'm connected with people. I'm definitely not a marathoner, and I'm someone who needs the motivation to put on my shoes in the morning. Knowing that a coach i
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by mknippen 6y ago
Regarding Android, you hit the nail on the head. Nearly all of our customers were coming from word of mouth. Runners wanted to have their whole club do a run together, and not having an Android app made it impossible. In addition, we'v
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by mknippen 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words. As of right now, we don't have an option to meet-up through the app, but we do have many users that are organizing their own meet-up groups via our Facebook Run Club.
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by mknippen 6y ago
As a developer, I would love to have this! However, after talking to our users, the biggest thing that we consistently hear is that they love the community, and the coaches. For example they can talk with Coach Amy on social media, chat wit
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great points. We do use the accelerometer and pedometer data in the phone to give the coaches many key parts of data such as cadence, average pace, stride length, and more. Regarding form, one of the best ways that we've found to fix i
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by mknippen 6y ago
We're streaming the audio through a server that tracks which song is played, and records each one. We actually use the same technology that powered internet radios back it the Winamp days. On the software side, we use Djay pro, which c
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great point, thank you. We have one that we're working on now!
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by mknippen 6y ago
Each running coach is choosing the music, and adjusting things like tempo based on what the specific workout is. Regarding copyright, we keep track of each song played, and the number of people that listen. We then send this to the large mu
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by mknippen 6y ago
We actually have several run clubs that run with Charge Running. You can share which class your joining with your Run Club and see everyone on that same leaderboard and chat room. Regarding pricing, that's definitely a fair point, and
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by mknippen 6y ago
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words. I'd love to chat more! Feel free to email me at matthew (at) chargerunning dot com
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by mknippen 6y ago
Great point, thank you! Because this is a live experience with a coach in your ear, there is a cost involved
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Launch HN: Charge Running (YC W21) – Social running app with real-time coaching
75 points by mknippen 6y ago|60 comments
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Magic and AI = Tricks you won't believe(wired.co.uk)
1 points by mknippen 8y ago|0 comments
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by mknippen 8y ago
I've had the pleasure of seeing Apollo work in person a few times, and the words in this article don't even properly describe it. If you haven't seen it already, check out his TED talk, where he does the exact routine mention
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by mknippen 9y ago
I'm Matthew, the CEO of Charge Running. We've been building our app for over a year now, and today, we launched the culmination of all of these efforts. We believe that we have the best way for you to run your first 5K, by providi
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Launch HN: Charge Running – 5K Training Doesn't Have to Suck(chargerunning.com)
7 points by mknippen 9y ago|3 comments
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by mknippen 9y ago
"Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that's become the U.S. government's company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get