Hello Hacker News,

I've been a long-time reader but never posted anything before.

I got tired of gym apps so built my own. Smart Strength aims to make it easy to record and add videos to each set of your exercise then you can share it directly with your friend or personal trainer for feedback.

Features include: - Personal exercise library - ability to add videos and comments to each set - personal url with all your workouts - respect for your privacy

However, I also don't like downloading different ones to try it out so I added a page where people can try before they sign up. The iOS app has a slightly different workout builder interface.

The app is with on Ruby on Rails and uses the hotwire approach. The app uses Turbo Native with one Swiftui screen for workouts.

Would love some feedback.

Even though this site has been responsible for some of my biggest clients, I don't actually write about tech that much. Instead I just share my thoughts on certain things that interest me.

https://williamkennedy.ninja/

Some of the advice here is bordering on dangerous.

From intermittent fasting to only eating one meal a day. These are dangerous things to jump into and recommend without some fact finding first. Although I appreciate people are speaking from their own experience.

I don't know your particular circumstances so I'm not going to recommend specific advice.

I need to know some things about you such as:

How overweight are you? What weight are you? How many calories do you consume each day? Are you allergic to anything? Do you do much physical activity? Do you have injuries? Do you have any medical issues? What have you tried before?

and so on and so on.

The best advice I can give you is to seek out more knowledge on the topic and invest in your health education. Checkout exaimine.com against any of the claims made here. Buy books or even hire a personal trainer or dietician. You can also email me and I'll will happily help you out as best as I can but be warned. I will probably just do more fact finding than recommend what you could do.

Also, books such as Atomic Habits can help you slowly adapt your behaviour to be healthier.

Weight loss is not complicated. At the end of the day, it's energy balance.

That does not mean it's simple either. There is a combination of environment, psychological factors, culture and so much more that can affect your own relationship with health and fitness.

Best of luck of OP.

I don’t think one meal a day is dangerous advice at all. It’s not possible to permanently harm yourself doing it.

There are risks in all endeavors. And intermittent casting’s risk is something like failing and gaining weight.

But anyone should be able to try it for a week and see how it works without serious risk. It’s not a dangerous chemical or medication.

Of course, fact finding is good before all things and I kind of assume that HN readers are naturally curious so are but into fact finding before, during, and after new things.

For me, I found a server on Discord that I liked. There is one for almost every programming niche at this stage.

Introducing yourself on the channel can get you going so to speak and then go slowly from there. Helping people, having fun etc..