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So why didn't you fork it? And what specifically were the licensing issues? workout.lol is MIT from what I can see.
the code was indeed MIT. The licensing issue I referred to was about the videos: many of them came from paid/licensed sources
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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.
HN Kiss of death or love :-). You are #1 on the front page now, so that was expected. Can I say the HN audience is very health-conscious? :-) Selected a few workouts and got this error - Error loading exercises . I'll try again after a few hours. Congratulations on the launch!!
The issue should be fixed RN !
Definitely feeling the HN kiss of traffic right now lol, Ii’m scaling things up and fixing the bottlenecks
Really appreciate you trying it out.
And yes seems like the HN crowd is more health-conscious than I thought. Loooove it !
Thanks again for the kind words and support!
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just fork it?
the original project was built in javascript with a NoSQL backend (mongo). I wanted to move to a more "new", (robust?) and maintainable stack with TypeScript and a SQL-based backend (PostgreSQL)
Do we have any assurance that you won't sell it again?
For the sell process, like with any open-source project whether it's an NPM package or anything else, there are no absolute guarantees... that's just the nature of open ecosystems...
But I've built Workout.cool with transparency in mind, no hidden business model, and self-hostable.
Just what I can tell you is this :
I've been passionate about fitness my whole life let's say. I started sports at 3 years old, and I've been into strength training for over 15 years.
I didn't build this to make money. I built it because I genuinely care and because I see more and more people missing out on the benefits of training, often overwhelmed by complexity, closed ecosystems, or paywalled apps, including people close to me, like my sister.
Hope that my reply counts for something...
Oh funny to see it here. I'm the original author of workout.lol. I sold the app to a guy who seemed to just abandoned it. I also texted him multiple times if he needs support, but he didn't answer anymore. It makes me really happy to see it being maintained again! Great work on the UI improvements.
You have no idea how happy I was when I saw your name pop up ahahha
Yeah, no luck either. It really broke my heart to see the project stall like that.
That's what pushed me to rebuild everything, keeping the same open spirit you had from day one.
Thanks a lot for the kind words about the UI it means a lot coming from you.
And if you ever feel like jumping back in (I totally get that it might be tricky, especially since you sold the original project and this one is so close) but you’d always be welcome.
Your input, ideas, or even just your presence would mean a lot !
Cheers !
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The readme and the emojis seem heavily AI.
Could be, I've seen a weird trend of using AI to write content when it doesn't make sense. Sure, using it to write a blog post about a topic is "slop" but I can see arguments for it. Using it to improve thoughts you have in your head, by making up details and add emojis however, I can't understand. For example as a heavy FB Market place user I see a lot of stuff like: [picture of an iPhone 12] - iphone 14 - new batte…
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…
You know counting calories by taking a picture literally doesn't work right? In fact, I'd argue it's one of the best examples of when an LLM confidently feeds you misinformation. An obvious example, a chicken breast fried in oil and a chicken breast air fried look identical, yet the oil fried one would have 3-4x the calories at least. Don't take my work for it though - this was just on HN the other day: https://news.…
A pan-fried chicken with a little oil in the pan to avoid sticking/make better thermal contact will add calories but not 3-4x more. You're likely using about 1 tbsp of oil which is around 100 kcal. 100g of chicken has around 160 kcal. Even assuming all the oil ends up on the chicken (it isn't) that's ~2x the calories at most.
Perspective wise, though, it'll by the white rice or mashed potatos that are more problematic in terms of calories. Both have a load of calories and can't be eyeballed by camera. It's all about the weight for those. And if you threw in butter/oil, even harder to know what the actual calories are.