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FWIW, I’m not the target customer for this service due to the high pricing and the fact that I’m not a runner.
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> Gyms are no competition for my money because I have no interest in going. Sure but at a gym you also get unlimited access to coach led group training _in person_, as well as unlimited access to large and expensive facilities, so it doesn't really make sense that this costs as much as a gym membership.
most gyms won't have coaching geared towards distance runners, though. Competitive distance runners are specialized enough that most fitness classes won't really give them what they're looking for. If you're somebody who goes for a couple runs a week to supplement their main forms of exercise I agree that this is a pretty steep price to pay.
Maybe they will, people pay for peloton. Then again that’s essentially a cult, and the contents seems richer.
Nice idea though, I wish I had thought of it!
Although, given that the coaching isn’t personal, and not even done in a local group, how much can a competitive runner really get out of it?
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How do you guarantee the coach is going to give me value? As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem like a cap on the number of people in any group, there could be a dozen or a few hundred. What is the coaches value to me if I'm one of the few hundred people in a group?
From a company perspective, that's our main goal. If we don't give you value, you don't say subscribed. If we do give value, we have runners that stay with us for years. While class sizes may differ, right now they're definitely smaller, allowing for a lot of time per coach. That will change with time, but it's our mission to provide as much value as humanly possible to our users.
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Offering feedback on running form has been one of the biggest requests that we've gotten, as well as training schedules catered to your specific needs. All of our daily classes follow a week-long progression to make sure that you are getting in a proper training cycle and avoiding overtraining. An example is if you were to join the 6AM classes each day during the week, you might have speed drills on Monday followed b…
Great! Will definitely try it out. Is there an option to get the benefit of the app w/o the "social" part? Running for me has always been a solo sport, closer to meditation.
How did you build the iOS app? UIKit? Objective-C++? Swift? React Native? SwiftUI? Flutter? a lot of options these days
Since the release of iOS 13, we've built all of our new screens in SwiftUI, so we're now more than 50% on the new framework.
The Android application is in Kotlin
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From a company perspective, that's our main goal. If we don't give you value, you don't say subscribed. If we do give value, we have runners that stay with us for years. While class sizes may differ, right now they're definitely smaller, allowing for a lot of time per coach. That will change with time, but it's our mission to provide as much value as humanly possible to our users.
That’s not really an answer at all. And it’s not even true. At least when it comes to gyms they have huge numbers of people that keep paying without going.
Many gyms work really hard to lock you into long-term contracts, where you need to provide adequate reason to unsubscribe. With Charge, you're not locked into something long-term, and it's much easier for you to leave. From a business perspective, this requires us to continue to provide value for our customers, which is exactly what we're trying to do.
Don't take me at my word though, I'd love to hear your feedback. Would you be willing to try it out and let me know if you found value in the coaching?
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That’s not really an answer at all. And it’s not even true. At least when it comes to gyms they have huge numbers of people that keep paying without going.
My apologies, let me clarify. We guarantee that we will provide value by offering a money-back guarantee in the first 7 days. If you don't find value, you don't need to pay. Many gyms work really hard to lock you into long-term contracts, where you need to provide adequate reason to unsubscribe. With Charge, you're not locked into something long-term, and it's much easier for you to leave. From a business perspective…
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That’s not really an answer at all. And it’s not even true. At least when it comes to gyms they have huge numbers of people that keep paying without going.
My apologies, let me clarify. We guarantee that we will provide value by offering a money-back guarantee in the first 7 days. If you don't find value, you don't need to pay. Many gyms work really hard to lock you into long-term contracts, where you need to provide adequate reason to unsubscribe. With Charge, you're not locked into something long-term, and it's much easier for you to leave. From a business perspective…
1. I have to enter my credit card for a 7 day trial
2. then I have to email you to cancel it within 7 days. I should be able to hit a button
There should be a free trial, no credit card.
I'm usually one to get the annual subscription on services, so I would get that here, but like a gym, i can't cancel after 7 days if I don't think I'm getting value, and I think this type of service would take more than a week to know if it's valuable. $10 more per month for monthly seems steep.
I'm putting this in the perspective of Gym membership costs, idk if other people think the same way.
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My apologies, let me clarify. We guarantee that we will provide value by offering a money-back guarantee in the first 7 days. If you don't find value, you don't need to pay. Many gyms work really hard to lock you into long-term contracts, where you need to provide adequate reason to unsubscribe. With Charge, you're not locked into something long-term, and it's much easier for you to leave. From a business perspective…
I haven't been running regularly for ages, but the gyms in Denmark are closed now so I suppose there's no time like the present to pick it up again!
I started 1 1/2 miles 2 days per week.
I'm up to 3 miles 3 days per week.
How did you build the iOS app? UIKit? Objective-C++? Swift? React Native? SwiftUI? Flutter? a lot of options these days
Great question. We built the app in Native Swift, with UIKit, since when we started SwiftUI was not yet available. Since the release of iOS 13, we've built all of our new screens in SwiftUI, so we're now more than 50% on the new framework. The Android application is in Kotlin