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• piker
  Would be good to hear more details about the journey from bootstrapped North Carolina house to a decent-sized team out west.Is Jefit profitable now? Then?What were revenues like during those times?What's the software stack?Interesting challenges (esp. from a tech perspective)?
• nemothekid
  I've been using JeFit for ~6 years (I have a lifetime premium, I think, due to buying the app in full when you could). It used to be a pretty ugly app but I've stuck with it because it was the only app that did the simple function of creating a routine with a schedule then logging your performance over time.
• jona777than
  It's nice to get a glimpse behind the scenes of JEfit.I used this app when I got serious about my fitness journey around 8 years ago. I fell off from using it 4 or 5 years ago (no fault of the app.) I can honestly say, it made it really easy to stay consistent with my workouts and show up to the gym confident in my programming.Perhaps what I love best about this story, and similar startup stories, is the purity of building something to solve a problem personally. Then when the success of that thing happens as a side effect, it seems more appropriate. Stories like this take me back to the simple joy of creating something useful.
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  mproud
  Anyone want to fix the typo in the title? Presumably “15 Years of Jefit”
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  chihuahua
  It would be interesting to hear more about why the move to Silicon Valley was necessary."My team in North Carolina didn't want to relocate. If I moved, I'd be starting from scratch, with no team"I wonder what was the problem with the existing team working remote?
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  throwanem
  How many if je don't fit?
• q3k
  Always appreciate seeing small teams go into bare metal hosting!(judging by the photo of them in front of HE FMT2 colo racks)
• frankdenbow
  Still a happy user of this app, thanks for sharing your journey. Especially love the Apple Watch app
• Noumenon72
  Misspelling in the title, not their fault
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  xnx
  Longtime Jefit user. I respect that it the enshittifiction (e.g. locking "volume" charts behind a subscription) has been slow enough to not force me to another product. I've definitely encountered many many bugs, but only a few that have resulted in partial data loss.Lots of respect with allowing data export in a simple format like .csvDid the "recent" exercise sort get removed?
• brcmthrowaway
  We need an examine.com for fitness. Too much slop out there.
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  oldpersonintx2
  youtube is FLOODED with free fitness content, I mean, you could workout for five years and never see the same video twiceits all evergreen - crunches from five years ago are just as good todayeveryone I know who worked as a personal trainer has moved out of the industryendless free resources out thereand then the content connected to devices like Peloton etcnot sure how you can make a buck in this businesswant to track your progress? look in the mirror or guesstimate