Don't get me wrong, I wish your start-up all the best, but this particular application seems so stereotypical by current standards. It's at least four buzzwords combined into one "idea". As someone who has never tried to apply, I wonder how difficult it was to get through Y Combinator's selection process.
I use self-hosted jira, it's a great product, but I have full control over my teams tasks and workflows and as a tiny team we make them work for us (subject, description, comments, occasional linking to other tickets, assigned to, and status of "open", "blocked" or "done")
Most of the problems I hear about are micromanaging product managers. That's not the fault of the tool itself per-se.
That's good information for the FOSS community. Most people I know could go the same way. They are using an operating system solely to launch a web browser and occasionally office applications.
I like the simplicity of this project. I created my own open-source, no tracking captcha using both proof-of-work and image puzzle challenges 4 years ago as a side project for my studies and my former employer's internal hackathon [0].
At the time, it was an idea based on spam prevention active systems. However, for the browser, there are many issues with such solutions—if you can solve it, then bots can too. It slows them down a little, but that's about it.
This would have been an easy sell for me, whereas the “AI-picked workouts” on this pitch was an immediate turn off. But there are others who are the opposite of me in this regard.
It is a deterministic algorithm that works based on muscles used in the exercise and aiming to work all main muscle groups. I wrote the keyword AI in some places so that the average person would understand it. I might remove it.
When you put it like that, it sounds much more enticing to me. Don’t remove it on account of comments like mine, especially if you have reason to believe it connects with the average person you’re hoping will use it.
Since the term AI seems to be used synonymously with transformer-based generative stuff, and seems to appear in almost every software-related content these days, that’s just where my mind goes.
It might add a layer of variation just to keep things interesting. There are many exercises that work the same or similar muscle groups, but doing the same thing over and over gets boring.
I’ve tried other AI program generators and honestly they aren’t all that bad. I got one to spit out a program based on what I currently needed to work on at the time and the result was OK.
Unless you’re one of those body building types, AI is probably fine.
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