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Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by throwanem »

jpc0 wrote: post #9

More an organisational thing but, what is the long term sustainability plan for this project. Apple Developer Program isn’t free and apple isn’t exactly well known for keeping stable APIs. If the answer is “until I don’t want to do it anymore” that is perfectly fine but then can there be a commitment to open sourcing (if it isn’t already) when you make that decision?

I seriously doubt Apple will casually abandon HealthKit. They are not Google, and I'm sure the contracts underpinning MFi and similar marks for major partners have savagely punitive terms that would enable those partners to recover in any such case.

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by mathgeek »

tchock23 wrote: post #7
CharlesW wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I really would have thought it’s already part of the iOS built in apps! Between the Apple Watch and Fitness app, you can see your heart rate zone during a workout, and then review workout heart rates/zones over time afterward. https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/view-heart-rate-zones-...

Sort of. You can only see your real-time heart rate on your phone when you're doing a cycling workout for some weird reason. Otherwise you have to awkwardly look at your watch if you're walking/running.

I was surprised that the watch is the awkward thing to look at for you, as I have always found a phone to be awkward to look at while working out in any way. Learned a new perspective today.

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by throwanem »

I like this visualization! I'm not doing a kind of training these days where it would be useful for me, but I wish I'd known about something like it when I was.

Do you support Apple watch? I never actually targeted that or owned one (I like a much more stylish smartwatch!) and thus don't immediately know how to spot that integration on an App Store detail page, hence the need to ask. But I get the sense a lot of folks who do train seriously like to do that with an Apple watch as primary or only device, and I could see enough utility in getting something like this kind of view in effective real time, to make the integration possibly worth considering. (If not already present! Or who knows, maybe Apple watches natively do that and now I know what the "heart rate push" feature on mine is imitating... ;)

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by jpc0 »

throwanem wrote: post #11
jpc0 wrote: post #9

More an organisational thing but, what is the long term sustainability plan for this project. Apple Developer Program isn’t free and apple isn’t exactly well known for keeping stable APIs. If the answer is “until I don’t want to do it anymore” that is perfectly fine but then can there be a commitment to open sourcing (if it isn’t already) when you make that decision?

I seriously doubt Apple will casually abandon HealthKit. They are not Google, and I'm sure the contracts underpinning MFi and similar marks for major partners have savagely punitive terms that would enable those partners to recover in any such case.

Not what I was referring to, hope this clarifies but apple seems willing to change the API which would require dev time to implement, ie this isn’t a project you can stick on the app store and ignore, it will require continuous effort and cash to keep there and compatible.

As an individual developer is the owner of the app and code I just want to know if the app will still exist in a year and be functional, otherwise I am not interested regardless of me liking the app idea.

If OP would like to charge money or accept donations or whatever they would like to do that is fine, but right now those questions are unanswered.

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by maperz »

Congratulations on your first App! I like the clean design and the simple configuration.

I would love to have a widget that shows my progress in the zones. Ideally this could be configured to e.g. only show progress in Zone 2 if thats my current training goal.

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by cyberpunk »

serial_dev wrote: post #3

Congrats on the launch! I really would have thought it’s already part of the iOS built in apps! You mentioned it’s your first app. Did you vibe code your way through it or did you heavily use AI? I played around with Swift SwiftUI and I felt that AI helped me a lot in contrast to my day to day job, humongous code base, I can’t get AI to get those mythical 100x productivity gains, more like 0.37x, but for new projects…

Okay, admittedly I'm somewhat of a greybeard by this point... However... I thought that vibe coding was .... exactly heavily using AI...

I know this not the place; but what exactly is your definition of 'vibe coding' since you've used it with such confidence in your comment perhaps you can enlighten this programmer..

Re: Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

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Post by ra7 »

tchock23 wrote: post #7
CharlesW wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I really would have thought it’s already part of the iOS built in apps! Between the Apple Watch and Fitness app, you can see your heart rate zone during a workout, and then review workout heart rates/zones over time afterward. https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/view-heart-rate-zones-...

Sort of. You can only see your real-time heart rate on your phone when you're doing a cycling workout for some weird reason. Otherwise you have to awkwardly look at your watch if you're walking/running.

This doesn't entirely help, but for most (if not all) workouts, you can set alerts for specific heart rate zones. Of course, this is very cumbersome to do per workout on the watch.
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