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Thanks for sharing! You’ve talked about your ontology, can you explain a bit more about how you build it?

Good point. That's attracted a lot of criticism to the post. The rationale behind that is: We want a strong company culture. As a fitness startup, that involves things beyond work,…

By investing in Berlin and Barcelona, where I've paid from €50k to €150k approx per apartment, and leveraging 50-80%.

True :) that probably deserves clarification: I made a clear separation between "spending money" (rent, travels, food, leisure) and "investment money". Anything spent is either an …

Last year I sold some stock from my last startup, a little over $1m after taxes, and I can say it's definitely changed things for the better. In this period of time, I have been ab…

And you can see that strength training or HIIT are completely left out from the announcement. Strava, Withings, Runtastic, Runkeeper and Noom Coach: all of them tracking apps, with…

That's my main problem with the fitness app industry at large. They are much more focused on steps, running and calories than actual fitness. And don't get me wrong, cardio works t…

Following the exact same approach helped to lose 20 lbs and motivated me to start a product around it. Check out http://8fit.com , where we propose simple HIIT workouts you can do …

I use mediahint.com for it, which is now a paid service, but has worked great for me

This is especially useful for iOS repos, where a lot of auto-generated stuff creeps into the pull request

As a second-time founder, I found Mixpanel to be the most expensive piece of SaaS we were using in our stack: at barely 30k users, it was already far more expensive than our whole …

I wish Google would take a second to try their own iOS dialer in real-life scenarios: 1) Paste an international number like +34 911 111 111 from the web to Hangouts: it gets pasted…

From my experience with my previous startup, we'd be able to comfortably support 50k actives without exceeding $10k a month in infrastructure.

I posted ads on craiglist advertising free coaching

Fitocracy's great as well! But they're more centered in tracking and gamifying. We take a different "just tell me what to do" approach. Users sign up, enter their stats and choose …

We simple used Google Docs and pretended the product existed. Here's the original survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18Se8QtvIKrGPWd8HEN4ILZz3Yyp...