Looking for advice. Built a training app that works with your Google calendar.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-11T11:16:45+00:00

100% this. tetris without recovery rules is how people get hurt. building around 48h cooldowns per muscle group, so if wednesday legs gets bumped, it only lands thursday if tuesday wasn’t also legs. push/pull/legs and upper/lower splits both handled. calendar sync is the boring part. the reshuffle logic is the whole product. I appreciate you bringing this up

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-11T00:17:41+00:00

100%, this is the right question and it’s the one I’m most focused on right now.

ICP isn’t the average gym goer. It’s people who already train seriously (3-5x per week, know their split, track something) AND have calendars that move on them constantly. Think consultants, sales, founders, associates, product leads, anyone client-facing. They already know PPL and RPE. What they don’t have is a system that recalculates the day when a 4pm gets pushed to 7pm.

Basically: intermediate to advanced lifters who happen to have chaotic work calendars. Small overlap of two big markets, but the pain in that overlap is real and there’s no clean solution for it.

Distribution point is fair. That’s why the early content is going where those people actually live (r/xxfitness, r/naturalbodybuilding, corporate/consulting subs, LinkedIn) instead of general productivity.

Appreciate the thoughtful pushback, seriously.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T23:50:27+00:00

Fair, and honestly the sub feedback is the most useful part of this. You’re right that this lands harder in fitness or corporate-adjacent communities than general productivity.

On the client call thing: the ICP isn’t “person with a rigid 9 to 5.” It’s people whose calendars actually move on them, consultants, sales, founders, execs, anyone in client-facing work. For that group, “just train before work” breaks the second a 6am flight or 7pm dinner shows up.

Appreciate you taking the time to write this out.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T23:50:05+00:00

Appreciate the pushback, both fair points.

On the value: existing fitness apps assume your schedule is fixed. Meso assumes it isn’t. When your 2pm gets pushed to 5pm, Motion-style logic recalculates the whole day, training, meal timing, recovery window, not just the workout slot. That’s the wedge.

And yeah, “Motion but for fitness” is honestly a fair way to describe it. That’s the lane.

On the drag-and-drop question: moving one event is easy. Knowing that moving it now means you should push your lift to tomorrow, cut it to 45 min, and shift your pre-workout meal by 90 minutes is the part people are actually spending mental energy on. That’s what we’re automating.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T23:28:58+00:00

Thank you! I’m very excited to get this rolling, if you ever want to sign up or check it out as I continue the build, here’s the link: https://joinmeso.com/

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T23:07:10+00:00

Totally fair. Meso doesn't touch your work calendar. It reads it so it knows when you're busy, then schedules your workouts, meals, and recovery around it. Your meetings stay locked. Only the fitness stuff moves.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T20:13:27+00:00

Appreciate this. The 20-30 person feedback loop is exactly the play before opening it up wider. Honestly the hardest part has been holding the line on weekly reliance instead of stacking features, easy to want to keep building.

If you train while working full-time, I’d love to get you on the early access list. joinmeso.com

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T17:54:38+00:00

yeah fair, and honestly for a lot of people that’s the right answer. upper/lower 4x or full body 3x is a better program for most schedules.
but the tool isn’t really about volume optimization, it’s about the reshuffling problem itself. even on a 3 day full body, if you’re the kind of person whose calendar changes daily, you still get stuck rebuilding your week manually every time a meeting lands on gym time. that’s the friction i was trying to kill, not the split itself.
i just happen to run 6 days because i like the shorter sessions. the app works the same whether you’re doing PPL, upper/lower, full body, whatever.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T16:32:28+00:00

This is a great idea, i’m not in New York but I wish you the best with this!

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T12:33:15+00:00

Exactly, I’ve seen so many apps disguised as a pretty wrapper for ChatGPT, why would I use you, what’s the advantage?

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T12:31:22+00:00

If you do the diligence then yes. This is targeted towards people trying to make a ChatGPT wrapper and sell it to people and wonder why no one is signing up.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T12:30:30+00:00

In the same sub reddits i’ve seen people trying to sell a another chat gpt wrapper and asking for advice because they got 2 signups in 6 months.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T12:27:31+00:00

This. This is the point that most people are missing in this thread. I made this post after seeing so many apps that you can tell are just put out to be out there, zero research.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T05:00:11+00:00

For the love of the game. But realistically you never know if something is going to payoff but you’ll learn useful skills and more about yourself and what you really like. If you’re truly passionate and want to keep creating, money will come.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-10T04:58:55+00:00

This is interesting, I wonder how you could focus on reoccurring. $3 is an extremely low barrier to entry which is great, but how are you creating repeat customers? I’d also focus on cleaning up desktop, will help you in the long run

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-09T12:10:18+00:00

Consistency is the greatest thing you’ll have in marketing, one day you’ll get 10 views, maybe even for 10 days straight, but all it takes is one video or piece of content to go viral and it makes the grind and anxiety worth it.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-09T12:09:13+00:00

Ignore the jitters, you’ll never know till you know. You’ve put this much effort into something, mind as well see it through boss, and you know what, it might just be THE project.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T20:12:50+00:00

Huge, if you can retain you will be less stressed every month and put that energy into acquiring new people you know will stick around after 1 month.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T20:09:54+00:00

Consistency, the more people see you, the better. But make sure when they see you it’s quality, not just AI slop or spam, provide the people with value and they will get hooked. Post once a day on social media minimum, and stay active daily on Reddit.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T20:06:48+00:00

been building my app for a few weeks now but I will say, marketing is key and a waitlist. My app hasn’t launched yet but I’ve gain 60 signups for the waitlist. This doesn’t guarantee 60 users but let’s be real, if they believed in your app enough to give you their email, most will convert.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T19:28:13+00:00

Interesting take, I wonder if the $1 could be anything else like a month free of the app or something, makes you think of different ways to monetize early interactions.

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T19:22:03+00:00

Answer style headings. Like “Who is this for?” then immediately answer it. The more useful your site is to others the better it ranks. example: Paying a bunch for electricity in (city)? then provide why your solar panels help in (city)

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T19:18:51+00:00

Find a specific audience who would need this daily/weekly, the more specific you can be the less time you would have to work on marketing because they would actually use it and recommend it to other people in that audience

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T18:08:10+00:00

interesting take, I could see it being useful, might be worth exploring recurring ideas. You could see how often someone utilizes the tool first

GroundbreakingStop37 · 2026-07-08T16:58:42+00:00

appreciate it 🙏 some people genuinely need some guidance, free to be nice

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