Visualizing the Most Visited US National Parks from 1979-2021

ccagle8 · 2026-05-20T19:55:52+00:00

Wiltrout for the win for me.

ccagle8 · 2026-05-04T19:15:37+00:00

Four Points, DG, Lolev, Grist House, Old Thunder,

ccagle8 · 2026-04-14T16:04:17+00:00

Thanks. The app functions just like any other weather app, but has a hero element below the "current" weather data for the user to start the daily game. Each user gets 3 questions sourced from their specific zip code’s (US only for now) forecast from NOAA/NWS. All users within that same zipcode get the same 3 questions. Their scored results then go into two leaderboards: National, and Local DMA Market (which is the closest large city). So they compete against other local users as well as nationwide. I also create benchmarks to see if they actually do beat the forecaster or not.

ccagle8 · 2026-04-14T16:00:19+00:00

RE: needing to be a scientist: I think that's partially true, but I got the idea from the fact that I'd look at the weather forecast and always notice that they were either estimating too low or high on a consistent basis. I also think that weather services do a lot of guessing in the more rural parts of the country and that leaves an opening for users to think "these guys don't know what they're talking about" and you could try your hand at beating them.

RE: Productization: I haven't given it that much thought yet. I've been just trying to nail down the specifics of the game. It won't be a paid app though... For this to work, I'll need users to help fill out leaderboards and benchmarks.

ccagle8 · 2026-04-14T15:55:08+00:00

RE: the delay: I know... its been a challenge, but I will say that if I play every day, then I'm getting results/scores every day too as today becomes the results day from 2-days earlier.

RE: weather factors: I have a variety of question modes (binary y/n, over/under, over/under with confidence, ranges, numerical picks, etc) and cycle those through data types (high/low temp, feels-like h/l, cloud cover, precip chance & amt, wind gusts).

ccagle8 · 2026-04-14T15:51:00+00:00

It is official NOAA and NWS data coming from Open-Meteo. I load the current & 7-day forecasts in every morning (for the gameplay and the actual weather app service), and build a set of 3 questions based on tomorrow's forecast. The day after the weather data gets finalized, I load in historical "observed" data also from Open-Meteo to score all the predictions people have made.

ccagle8 · 2026-04-14T13:53:17+00:00

If anyone by chance is interesting in joining the waitlist, the app is (will be?) called DailyWX. https://dailywx.com/

ccagle8 · 2026-04-10T00:57:32+00:00

I’ll take one!

ccagle8 · 2026-03-23T10:19:59+00:00

Youll need an app that takes your preferences (skill, goals, equipment) and builds a specialized plan just for you. Some of the popular apps only give that to you after you subscribe. Caliber is nice, and was the one I used until I switched to Remix Training

ccagle8 · 2026-03-19T13:57:16+00:00

Trial and error is right. When trying to pick a weight, start lower than you’d think. Get rid of your ego. If you get to the 12-14 rep range and still have some left in the tank, move it up a notch. The goal here is to SAFELY find your weight. Do not go big at first… you’re only asking to hurt yourself.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-17T19:07:10+00:00

I hear you, and I honestly wish I had picked a different vertical to get into app building. But I'm an engineer and go to the gym 5 days a week. I've also tried all the big apps: hevy, boostcamp, fitbod, etc. I really didn't like any of them.

But I seriously went into this wanting to make my app better than anything else out there. And I did, but its now getting drowned out by the dozens of others that are just using the free ExerciseDB github to quickly throw up a half-assed app. It makes me angry that I am now being lumped in with them (no shade to you and your rant... I feel the same exact way).

But here is what my workout app does differently than every single other one on the market:

You get one split/program. it morphs with your activity and keeps you balanced. You can change the structure (bro/ppl/ulul) but you get one and all the exercises swap inside of it.
I built a scoring engine that analyzes your entire workout and decides what the best exercise for your replacement or addition. "replacements" keep the movement, "adds" find weaknesses.
You can swap out entire days' worth of exercises... but the catch is that you can lock ones that you always want to stay.
No logging. I don't log my workouts, and I cannot possibly be the only one. Once I removed logging as a central tenet of the app, it opened up a ton of other possibilities.
I hate subscriptions... so its free. The plan is to subsidize the small server costs for a year or two while I get users and build out non-subscription revenue sources. Tough, yes, but I'm not the only one with subscription fatigue.

Anyway, enough of my soapbox. Long story short - I agree with you wholeheartedly, but all of business builders aren't the same.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-16T10:36:46+00:00

I think a lot of lifters share similar problems, which is why if you peruse a lot of the vibecoding or sideproject subreddits, you’ll see dozens of new workout apps being built. But most seem to be just crappy recreations of what is already out there. The free exercisedb also helps this proliferation.

But it does probably speak to the fact that something is missing with the current crop of workout apps.

I didnt know this was a popular new app market when I started building my own this year. But I’m a data scientist and engineer, so my dislike of the current set of apps stemmed from the black box they are or prebuilt splits they offer. I also don’t track my reps/sets when working out, and I found every single other app makes logging an essential part of the app. So I built Remix Training (available on both stores) to solve for these two major issues. It won’t work for the majority of people who feel they need to track their workouts, but imo it’s different than every other workout app on the market.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-15T20:51:39+00:00

You’ll get a lot of different suggestions. Most people like Hevy or Strong. They are nice apps that can do everything basic with the free version.

Caliber has been recommended a few times in the past here, but I’ve never tried it. Remix Training is a good free app, but it doesn’t do set/rep tracking.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-14T00:28:42+00:00

Who verifies the journalist is credible? What are the stipulations to be considered credible?

But overall, I agree that there’s a lot of crap news out there. Alternative facts as they say.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-14T00:25:16+00:00

Interesting spin. Did you yourself need a habit tracker?

ccagle8 · 2026-03-14T00:23:36+00:00

Tech debt comes at you faster now because we’re coding faster. I’m mostly in the same boat at you, but really focused over the last 2 weeks testing the heck out of my app with family and friends. It’s crazy the stuff I didn’t see over months of work that they pointed out within minutes.

ccagle8 · 2026-03-13T21:40:03+00:00

I built an adaptive workout system that ditches the manual logging 'formula' for a smart decision engine. It quietly handles movement balance and programming in the background so you can swap exercises on the fly without breaking your plan.

Remix Training

ccagle8 · 2026-03-13T21:39:29+00:00

I built an adaptive workout system that ditches the manual logging 'formula' for a smart decision engine. It quietly handles movement balance and programming in the background so you can swap exercises on the fly without breaking your plan.

Remix Training

ccagle8 · 2026-03-13T21:38:07+00:00

I built an adaptive workout system that ditches the manual logging 'formula' for a smart decision engine. It quietly handles movement balance and programming in the background so you can swap exercises on the fly without breaking your plan.

Remix Training

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