As part of the changes since the start of December, I’ve realised I should just kick my own backside. Over the years I’ve made several exercise apps for myself, and it hasn’t gotten to the point where I can release it for others to use properly. An APK alone can be useful for some, but that defeats the idea of it possibly bringing me a little passive income.

I’ll be doing the rebranding of the page later this week with more images (I believe). Today, I just intend on sharing that from the challenge of getting projects completed for myself, it was this one first. Get healthier, fitter, and perhaps start my first passive income project up.

While my art needs to still be made, the rough images should be the perfect guide while testing it out.

I kept the UI simple, and understandable, for starters. The plan of action was to follow these rules:

• Keep it simple to understand
• Keep it easy to use
• Allow the users to easily manage their plan to follow the apps routines
• Have easy to manage statistics for the user to see progress
• Have achievements to help motivate consistent exercising

With that in mind, I took my cousin’s routine I was following before my incident that was going so fantastic, adjusted it only ever so slightly. Then added a way to run a similar routine at home with dumbbells, and I’ve got a bodyweight set for when not new needed equipment, it might change over time.

For ease, on sets where you use weights and equipment, there’s a method to easily keep track things. Simple, and easy to use, as intended!

As a note, it recommends measuring stats once every week, or two. There are graphs that show off the changes over time, up to two months. I’m undecided on if I’ve made it the best possible method, so won’t show it off today.

As part of the 2-hour rules, I now cannot use the excuse my app isn’t working, anymore. Past versions I kept just behind being fully working. The focus on the main project of interest, one at a time, led to the perfect plan.

On the project in my personal Gitea instance, I spend a while talking to Copilot through VSCode to map out the steps in the readme.md. This came from before the start of all the deeper thoughts from GPTs and felt like an awesome starting plan. It needed only a few minor adjustments as I started to go step by step on the first beta version. Now I’ll test out future features using the more thoughtful style of GPT conversations to think of more useful features to add, if need be.

All in all, I want to get the achievements myself, already, and once I get a week consistently through the 5/2 split intended, I’ll see who’d like to become beta testers. Also, hopefully have a better idea for how to start out on the Play store.

The project is built in C# MAUI, first for Android, so in the future, I’ll also look into publishing it for the iOS store, if it gains enough momentum.