Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what?

> ...but you did it, which is what counts in the end.

I can honestly say that I've come to truly believe that entrepreneurism is the ultimate spiritual journey -- at least it has been for me.

No matter how this chapter of my life ends, I like the person I am today 10,000% more than the person I was when I started, and I don't know that I could ever put a price on that.

In a post on another platform last week, I wrote something to the following effect: "entrepreneurism will burn off the mask that you're wearing and strip you down to the core" -- and I mean that in the best possible way.

When you are ready to build your app (and slay a few dragons along the way!), I'll be happy to be a resource to you however I can if you want to learn from any of my experiences.

The marketing seems to assume your customer are knowledgeable athletes who want an app to track their performance. I would introduce two more user personas. The first is the type whose New Year resolution is either to lose weight or build stamina. Your app should suggest a program like a personal fitness trainer, show them what to do, and track their progress and give them encouragement when they achieve some milestone. The second user has a specific goal but need help coming up with a realistic training plan For example, they want to pass the new Army fitness standards.

https://armypubs.army.mil/pub/eforms/DR_a/ARN35762-DA_FORM_7...

Are you really saying that you spent years of work and $1m+ of your own money building something that you love but that has no income and no path to income?

A free app?

You're very articulate and the comments have been interesting to read, but it all feels a bit like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

You need to go to your existing users and tell them that from next Monday the price is $x.

Unless you're independently wealthy and quite happy to continue building your perfect app and giving it away for free forever. In which case, carry on.

"take a holiday break to freshen my perspective"

Due to A do B now, as it will be easier than if you have lots of active users to support and is an opportunity.

The refresh might give you some distance to come to answers/direction etc.

Look after you first :)

Good luck!

A lot of the core UI/UX has been built around training to hit specific targets/splits for metabolic conditioning workouts, analyze those splits, etc. In other words, a _really_ fancy stopwatch that can do some analysis.

The app also supports weightlifting, endurance, and a broad interpretation of "constantly varied, high intensity, functional movement", but there's plenty to do there to improve the experience.

I've been thinking about the idea of making the scope of the UI/UX more narrow and focused on certain types of workouts, and I still am thinking about it. It's something I might try in the weeks ahead to see if "less = more" for a more focused ideal customer profile.

There's a good case to be made that the app is trying to do too many things for too many people right now : /