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

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Post by bramhaag »

KPGv2 wrote: post #33
abtinf wrote: 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 restricti…

'source available' means the source code is available. Open source comes with a whole set of guarantees [1] about free redistribution and derived works.

Copyleft licenses like the GPL come with extra guarantees that do not violate the core guarantees of open source software. Instead, they make them stronger. The 'restrictions' GPL imposes essentially boil down to this: "if you use (parts of) GPL software, you must give your users the same freedoms the GPL guarantees." GPLv3 and AGPL closed up loopholes that allowed people to bypass those clauses.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

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

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Post by blitztime »

mrln wrote: post #36
kylebenzle wrote: post #23

Is this not just more AI slop? Why is anyone commenting or voint it up?

How do you even come to that conclusion? There's nothing on that page that screams "AI slop" to me.

The readme and the emojis seem heavily AI.

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

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Post by lifesaverluke »

Sander_Marechal wrote: post #25

It would be great if the equipment and muscle selection wasn't mandatory. For example, I have a pull-up bar but I have no idea what muscles I can train with it. Why not let me filter on beginner exercises instead?

then you should choose your pull-up bar as equipment, right?

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

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Post by mandeepj »

surgomat wrote: post #34
adobrawy wrote: post #5

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.

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!!

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

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Post by thayne »

KPGv2 wrote: post #33
abtinf wrote: 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 restricti…

Even if it was licensed under GPL, which it isn't, forking the project to create another open source project is allowed, as long as the fork is also GPL licensed.

But in this case the original project used the MIT license, so the only requirement is that it the form includes attribution to the original project.

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

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Post by edude03 »

paul7986 wrote: post #37

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220135

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

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Post by edude03 »

blitztime wrote: post #42
mrln wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you even come to that conclusion? There's nothing on that page that screams "AI slop" to me.

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 battery - delivers to [enter your state here] - comes with [enter accessories it comes with]

Like they were too lazy to even fill in the brackets or ensure some level of accuracy. What's the point?

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

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Post by ctxc »

daxaxelrod wrote: post #39

I don't want to track any of this myself. I want to walk into a gym, have some cameras follow me around, and have it analyze what I did while I was there, including statistics over time.

Well if I had to do this, I'd build the whole system just procrastinating walking into the gym :P

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

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Post by toyetic »

edude03 wrote: post #46
paul7986 wrote: post #37

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.…

What happens if you give it that context though? Or prompt it to search the web for comparable meals?

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

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Post by LostMyLogin »

duxup wrote: post #18
LostMyLogin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hesitating to write this because I don't want to push back at all on OP but I'm not sure I agree that something like this is a good option for people wanting to get started in weightlifting. I'm not sure it's a good option for anyone really. I applaud OP for the effort but this is recommending some pretty awful workouts. For example if I select back and bi, it's giving me nine different exercises with complete disreg…

Were those intended to be "do it in this order" or were they just options? I got the feeling they were more options and you could reorder them if you wanted or shuffle or just do one or another. To me a more casual / getting started is just about doing the thing.

I'm not sure a beginner would know what order to place them in nor would they recognize the potential injury risk associated with stacking some of these exercises.

Beginners should be focusing on form and simple compound lifts. Throwing them into things like heavy accessory lifts with no regard for exercise choice or format is a quick way to get hurt. Again, I want to applaud OP for doing this. The fitness industry is in a terrible place and tools like this have a great place. I just think it needs a ton of work to make it useful. Maybe if I find some time, I'll try and contribute but in it's current state I would never recommend something like this to anyone.

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