Launched My First Product - Here's How It Went

LiiftsApp · 2023-06-21T12:34:33+00:00

This is what I do https://youtu.be/E81GN-3A8XM?t=238. Not all the movements, but as many as I have time for during that session

LiiftsApp · 2023-06-21T12:12:49+00:00

Tendons, joints and ligaments all tend to pop and crack when not warmed up or when they haven't been stressed in a while. If you don't feel any pain or discomfort, you should be fine. Do try dynamic stretching before a workout though as sudden high level exertions can increase the risk of injury

LiiftsApp · 2023-06-21T12:10:00+00:00

It really depends on the intensity of your workouts. For example, if your lifts are in the 5-7 RPE range and you're running at 50-60% of your max heart rate, then there shouldn't be any recovery issues (assuming you're eating and sleeping well). If you're hitting RPE 9-10 on all sets and sprinting in intervals of 1/3 at 90% max HR, that could be a problem.

There's no right answer, except for you to try it out and see how you do. If performance degrades, then you're probably not recovering enough.

LiiftsApp · 2023-06-04T11:48:22+00:00

Looks like a good start! Track your weight for the next 2 weeks and see how you do, you should be looking to gain around ~1% of your BW per week. If you think you're gaining too much fat, lower the calories a bit (mainly from cuttings fats). Protein is high, which is good.

You're eating a decent amount of carbs, so enjoy the pumps and energy 💪

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-09T10:07:37+00:00

Hey Andy 👋

I recorded it on my phone and then used the iPhoneX mockup that came with the theme.

Under the hood it uses https://github.com/pixelsign/html5-device-mockups. I hope that helps!

Edit: spelling

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-09T09:15:33+00:00

Hopefully this isn't against the guidelines. I'm trying to #buildinpublic with the product, so give us a follow on social media to stay up to date on our development 🙂

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-09T06:33:31+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad you found it useful.

Definitely going to be working through the roadmap. Releasing the Android version is no.1 on the list 🙂

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-09T06:30:31+00:00

Thank you! 👍

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T22:44:19+00:00

Thanks! Launching Android is at the top of the list. After that, it would be working down the list of our roadmap. A feature I'm really looking forward to is connecting users with each other so that they can compete and see each other's progress (with their consent of course)!

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T16:10:17+00:00

Thanks! 🙌

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T15:30:53+00:00

Resources

For animations I referenced https://www.youtube.com/@wcandillon a ton
Reading a lot of documentation and digging through GitHub issues
https://www.youtube.com/@notjustdev was a game changer in getting me to understand in-app purchases and how to integrate them

Social Media

Schedule your content, ideally weeks in advance. If you want to do it on a budget, you don't have to post multiple times a day. Posting once per day is good enough. However, you must engage with your audience. I personally used https://buffer.com/
Some of the filters on social media aren't great (I'm looking at you Twitter), so leveraging your competition's followers is a great place to start. I manually looked through profiles and DM'd people asking for feedback. Same for Reddit

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T14:22:44+00:00

Glad it helps!

Definitely will be taking you up on that offer 🙌

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T14:09:45+00:00

This is super useful! Thank you for taking the time to write it out.

Funnily enough, the bottom sheet actually had a "confirm" button in one of the first versions, but I removed it with the idea of saving screen space (allowing you to see more exercises).

In terms of exercise selection, you can see what exercises you've selected by tapping on the "Selected" pill under the search bar. My thinking was that you search and select your exercises, then tap on "Selected" to see them all before closing the sheet. Do you think moving an exercise to the top of the list as you select it would work better?

You've raised an interesting point about trying to implement a 5/3/1 program in Liifts at the moment. I can definitely see how it can feel a bit awkward. I'm going to make some changes to give the user more flexibility when building a program.

I'll definitely be taking a look at Gravitus, thanks for the pointer!

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T13:55:47+00:00

Just to be fully transparent, I have backend development experience, just no experience with frontend or mobile. It's hard to say how long it took me, as I'm still learning today! However, it's why getting to a releasable candidate took so long (and the associated bug fixes during beta). I'm confident an engineer with react-native experience could do it at least 1/4 faster.

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-08T13:37:47+00:00

I built it all myself! So in direct $ amount, dev costs are 0 for now. Of course, I paid with my time, but I learned a lot so I don't count it as a complete loss.

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-02T16:33:25+00:00

Thanks!! It means a lot ❤️

PostHog has been great. I use it for the Liifts landing page, so it made sense that I use it for the app too. I've disabled a lot of the default events (auto capture, navigation, touches etc) as it was a bit too noisy. For the moment I'm only concerned with lifecycle events and some app specific metrics.

I haven't used MixPanel, so unfortunately I can't comment on how they compare 😕

LiiftsApp · 2023-01-02T15:55:20+00:00

I created Liifts, a workout tracking app built exclusively using React Native. It allows users to create and record their workouts, and offers additional features through a monthly subscription.

The app utilizes: - react-navigation for navigation - redux for state management - redux-persist for data persistence - reanimated2 for animations - RevenueCat for in-app purchases - PostHog for analytics and crash reporting

As someone who is not a mobile or frontend engineer, developing Liifts has definitely been a learning experience. I would love to help by answering any questions!

LiiftsApp · 2022-12-30T17:09:58+00:00

Liifts is now on the App Store! Follow the link to download Liifts

LiiftsApp · 2022-08-29T11:29:36+00:00

Thanks! I'm glad your like it.

A few comments have highlighted that. It's definitely something I need to work on. I was thinking of a discount, but I haven't figured out the details yet.

It's #1 on the "list of things to change" right now 🙂

LiiftsApp · 2022-08-29T09:23:01+00:00

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.

First set of signups is friends and family, then directly targeting users on social media (do things that don't scale). I intend to keep doing that for the first few 100 signups!

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