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Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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post #26

Just out of curiosity: if the original project was open source, why did you decide to restart from scratch?

I actually tried really hard not to

sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies.

Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why muscles first?

You generally want to make sure you're working out specific muscles or muscle groups a certain of times each week and with a certain number of working sets, rather than "I have used $MACHINE recently so I need to do that today."

I only have dumbbells, so selecting the equipment first is actually ideal for me

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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post #26

Just out of curiosity: if the original project was open source, why did you decide to restart from scratch?

Open source just means the source code is available. It doesn't mean you can legally use it. That is, in fact, the whole point behind the most famous open source license, GPLv3: code is open source, but there are still restrictions on how you can use the code. I don't know about now (most projects I work on are MIT-licensed, these days), but there was rancor around the move from v2 to v3 because v3 was more restrictive.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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It looks promising. I retrieve error response when fetching exercise: 0:{"a":"$@1","f":"","b":"eETmgndxtv4Ar0i8Wync1"} 1:{"serverError":"An unexpected error occurred."} My request: curl ' https://workout.cool/ ' \ -H 'accept: text/x-component' \ -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9,pl-PL;q=0.8,pl;q=0.7' \ -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \ -H 'content-type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8' \ -b 'Next-Locale=en; _fbp=fb.1.1750253…

Thanks a lot for reporting! The traffic from HN hit hard (which I didn’t expect tbh).

I’m working on stabilizing it and will have a fix in the next minutes / hour

Appreciate you testing it out! thanks again.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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I count calories and use chatGPT to do so by taking pics of my meals / what I eat.

I'm looking forward to Meta adding this feature to their Ray Ban smartglasses so the glasses automagically count my calories each time it sees food on my plate or going into my mouth. A feature they possibly should make optional, but for me who has prescription Metas it would be a big time saver (try to eat 1500 to 2000 calories a day and burn 250 to 500 in exercise). I think the knowledge of how many calories you consume done automagically would prompt 1/4 of people thinking and or on Ozempic to not do it.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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It does not appear to be working for me right now, I get "error loading exercises". What are your thoughts about the wger project [0]? It is a FLOSS AGPL-licensed self-hosted fitness/workout/nutrition manager that has existed for almost a decade (I think?) It's a django app and has a companion flutter app that runs on android/ios/windows/linux/macos. It supports multiple users and could even be used to run a gym. Bod…

I got the same error.

Re: Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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post #26

Just out of curiosity: if the original project was open source, why did you decide to restart from scratch?

I actually tried really hard not to sent 15 emails over 9 months to the new owner, offering to help or even take over the repo but i had no replies. Issues and PRs were ignored(you juste have to see the issues section of the report). Rebuilding from scratch was the only way to fix the licensing & continue the project i guess

So why didn't you fork it?

And what specifically were the licensing issues? workout.lol is MIT from what I can see.

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