#building a fitness app

[auspicioussoft01]

Cost of building a fitness app in 2023 can range from $45,000 to $210,000, depending on the features included and the development team

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[churchyardgrim]

I saw that tag!! dude!!! how are you going to sleep on time every day?? I get up at the same time every day and have been trying to be in bed by the same time I only fall asleep 40% of the time 😭😭

the secret answer that grownups and capitalists don't want u to know is: there's no such thing as an "on-time bedtime"

i work night shift. i usually wake up between 11 and noon. my shift ends at midnight and i crash by 3am. if left to my own devices, with no external pressures one way or the other, this is my natural circadian rhythm. during the year i had to work day shift and adapt to that schedule, i averaged six hours of sleep a night, constantly struggled to sleep on time even when i was Exhausted, and was absolutely miserable.

now this is far from a one-size-fits-all solution here - very few industries outside of production and factory work offer night shifts, and even then that might not be a perfect fit for your particular circadian rhythm. getting accommodations for an atypical sleep cycle (or a diagnosis of a sleep disorder) is like pulling teeth, and good luck trying to run errands after work. but recognizing and accepting that trying to brute-force my way into a "normal" sleep schedule does astronomically more harm than good, and learning how to listen to what my system needs and how to provide it, went a long way towards fixing my relationship with sleep.

[dullahandyke]

Neglecting my course registration responsibilities to ooh and ahh at compact drying racks on home store and more. Look at this cute little thing

[ID: a promotional photo of a compact drying rack.]

[zvaigzdelasas]

OpenAPI generated type interfaces are literally so sexy

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[yourfitnesscoachdubai]

Best Fitness App Dubai

The greatest fitness app in Dubai, Your Fitness Coach, can help you up your fitness game! Your Fitness Coach serves as your personal fitness coach, providing you with individualized training regimens, professional advice, and real-time progress monitoring. Whether your goal is to increase strength, boost endurance, or just feel better overall, our app offers customized workout plans and live courses that work with your hectic schedule. Get access to elite trainers, dietary guidance, and a thriving community committed to supporting your goal-achieving.

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Shokz OpenFit Air - TDP Review

The Shokz OpenFit Air enters the market as a complementary model to the original OpenFit, retailing at a more affordable price of $199 AUD. Unlike many sponsored reviews, this assessment is entirely unbiased, ensuring an honest and thorough evaluation. Open-ear technology, which has seen a surge in popularity over the past 18 months, offers a unique listening experience by using mini speakers…

[mobileappdevelopmentsolution]

The Future of FitTech: How 5G, Wearables, and AI are Transforming Fitness App Development

The fitness world is being radically reshaped by emerging technologies like 5G, wearable devices, and artificial intelligence. These innovations are powering the next generation of fitness apps that offer hyper-personalized, immersive, and interactive experiences. At Consagous Technologies, we are at the forefront of building next-gen fitness and health apps powered by data-driven insights. Our fitness application development experts create highly tailored apps that leverage AI and biometrics to provide users with the benefits of virtual coaching and community engagement towards achieving their wellness goals.

[ahex-technologies]

Exploring Wear OS Development: Creating Apps for Smartwatches and Wearables

Welcome to the exciting world of Wear OS development! Wearables are taking center stage, transforming how we interact with technology. From smartwatches tracking our health to fitness bands motivating our workouts, these miniaturized devices offer unique opportunities for developers. Ready to dive in and create your own Wear OS app? Let's explore the landscape!

What is Wear OS?

Formerly known as Android Wear, Wear OS is a smartwatch operating system developed by Google. It boasts a growing user base and offers diverse functionalities, making it an attractive platform for developers.

Why Develop for Wear OS?

There are several compelling reasons to join the Wear OS development scene:

Growing Market: The smartwatch market is booming, presenting a vast potential user base for your app.

Unique Interface: Wearables demand a different design approach compared to smartphones. Explore circular interfaces, touch interactions, and limited screen space.

Diverse Use Cases: From fitness tracking to notifications to quick-glance information, Wear OS apps cater to a variety of needs and niches.

Seamless Integration: Leverage Google's ecosystem and integrate your app with popular services like Maps, Fit, and Assistant.

Getting Started with Wear OS Development:

Developing for Wear OS is easier than you might think! Here's your roadmap:

Set Up Your Development Environment: Download Android Studio and install the Wear OS plugins.

Explore Design Principles: Learn Material You guidelines and best practices for designing intuitive and visually appealing wearable experiences.

Get Familiar with the Tools: Master essential tools like Watch Face Studio for watch faces and Jetpack Compose for building modern UI components.

Practice with Tutorials and Sample Code: Explore Google's official tutorials and sample code to get comfortable with the development process.

Developing Your First Wear OS App:

Start with a simple app to grasp the core concepts. Consider building:

A basic watch face: Showcase your design skills and learn the fundamentals.

A fitness tracker: Integrate with sensors and display health data like steps and heart rate.

A notification companion app: Extend an existing smartphone app to display notifications on the watch.

Beyond the Basics:

Once you're comfortable, explore advanced features like:

Complications: Create interactive elements on watch faces.

Offline functionality: Ensure your app works even without a phone connection.

Wear OS Pay: Integrate payment functionality for convenient transactions.

The Wear OS Community:

Join the thriving Wear OS developer community for support, learning, and inspiration. Resources include:

Android app Developers website: Official documentation and tutorials.

Stack Overflow: Get answers to your development questions.

Google Developer Groups: Connect with local developers.

Wrapping Up:

The world of Wear OS development is brimming with possibilities. Start exploring, experiment, and create innovative apps that enhance the smartwatch experience. Remember, the journey begins with a single step. Take that step, and who knows, your app might be the next big thing on someone's wrist!

Additional Tips:

Identify a specific niche or problem to address with your app.

Prioritize a user-friendly and intuitive design.

Test your app thoroughly on different devices and Wear OS versions.

Market your app effectively to reach your target audience.

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How To Use Habit Trackers To Enhance Your Habits

Do you ever find yourself making New Year’s resolutions or setting ambitious goals, only to see them fizzle out within weeks?

forming and maintaining habits can be challenging, but there’s a powerful toolset that can help: habit trackers and journals.

In this guide, We’ll dive deep into how these tools can revolutionize your life, making your habits stick and propelling you toward your goals.

The Power of Habits: Why They Matter

Habits are the invisible architects of our lives. They dictate our daily actions, shape our future & ultimately determine our success or failure.

The Habit Tracking Advantage

Imagine having a personal assistant who nudges you in the right direction every day. That’s precisely what habit trackers do.

Accountability: Habit trackers hold you accountable. When you see unfinished habits, it’s a visual reminder to stay on track.

Motivation: The joy of marking a habit as completed is immensely satisfying and motivates you to keep going.

Data-Driven Insights: Habit trackers provide data on your progress. Streaks, trends, and frequency charts give you a clear picture of your habits.

Keeping a journal alongside habit tracking can unlock profound insights into your behavior and mindset.

Journaling: Unveiling the Whys and Hows

Here’s why journaling is an essential companion to habit trackers

Reflection: Documenting daily experiences facilitates understanding success or challenges with specific habits.

Emotional Connection: Journals delve into emotions and thoughts tied to habits, uncovering deeper motivations.

Problem Solving: When facing obstacles, journaling aids in brainstorming effective solutions and strategies.

The Justly App: Your Habit-Building Ally

Let’s talk about Justly — a remarkable app designed to help you reach your goals through positive habits and a consistent routine.

Its key features are customized habit tracking, daily reminders, data insights, integrated journaling, goal-setting, and community support.

Justly can also be used to set and visualize long-term goals and break them down into manageable habits. 

Additionally, users can connect with others on their habit-building journeys, providing motivation and accountability.

How to Use Habit Trackers

Here’s a step for monitoring and enhancing your habits using habit trackers and journals, with a tool like “Justly”

Define SMART habits & pick a tracker like Justly.

Set up your habits and track them daily.

Analyze your progress and adjust your habits accordingly.

Journal your experiences for deeper insights.

In a world brimming with distractions and limited time, cultivating positive habits becomes a powerful tool for success. 

Explore the structured habit formation with habit trackers and journals, enriched by tools like Justly. 

If you're ready to take that crucial first step toward becoming a better version of yourself, delve into our full Article on Justly Blog. 

Follow Justly for regular updates on upcoming blogs!

[genericpuff]

Tbh at this point you should just make your own webcomic app/website because it would probably be 100 times better than whatever going on with webtoon right now.

hahaha it wouldn't tho, sorry 💀

Here's the fundamental issue with webcomic platforms that a lot of people just don't realize (and why they're so difficult to run successfully):

Storage costs are incredibly expensive, it's why so many sites have limitations on file sizes / page sizes / etc. because all of those images and site info have to be stored somewhere, which costs $$$.

Maintenance costs are expensive and get more so as you grow, you need people who are capable of fixing bugs ASAP and managing the servers and site itself

Financially speaking, webcomics are in a state of high supply, low demand. Loads of artists are willing to create their passion projects, but getting people to read them and pay for them is a whole other issue. Demand is high in the general sense that once people get attached to a webtoon they'll demand more, but many people aren't actually willing to go looking for new stuff to read and depend more on what sites feed them (and what they already like). There are a lot of comics to go around and thus a lot of competition with a limited audience of people willing to actually pay for them.

Trying to build a new platform from the ground up is incredibly difficult and a majority of sites fail within their first year. Not only do you have to convince artists to take a chance on your platform, you have to convince readers to come. Readers won't come if there isn't work on the platform to read, but artists won't come if they don't think the site will be worth it due to low traffic numbers. This is why the artists with large followings who are willing to take chances on the smaller sites are crucial, but that's only if you can convince them to use the site in favor of (or alongside) whatever platform they're using already where the majority of their audience lies. For many creators it's just not worth the time, energy, or risk.

Even if you find short-term success, in the long-term there are always going to be profit margins to maintain. The more users you pull in, the more storage is used by incoming artists, the more you have to spend on storage and server maintenance costs, and that means either taking the risk at crowdfunding (ex. ComicFury) or having to resort to outsider investments (ex. Tapas). Look at SmackJeeves, it used to be a titan in the independent webcomic hosting community, until it folded over to a buyout by NHN and then was pretty much immediately shuttered due to NHN basically turning it into a manwha scanlation site and driving away its entire userbase. And if you don't get bought out and try your hand at crowdfunding, you may just wind up living on a lifeline that could cut out at any moment, like what happened to Inkblazers (fun fact, the death of Inkblazers was what kicked off the cultural shift in Tapas around 2015-16 when all of IB's users migrated over and brought their work with them which was more aimed towards the BL and romancee drama community, rather than the comedy / gag-a-day culture that Tapas had made itself known for... now you deadass can't tell Tapas apart from a lot of scanlation sites because it got bought out by Kakao and kept putting all of its eggs into the isekai/romance drama basket.)

Right now the mindset in which artists and readers are operating is that they're trying way, way too hard to find a "one size fits all" site. Readers want a place where they can find all their favorite webtoons without much effort, artists wants a place where they can post to an audience of thousands, and both sides want a community that will feel tight-knit. But the reality is that you can't really have all three of those things, not on one site. Something always winds up having to be sacrificed - if a site grows big enough, it'll have to start seeking more funding while also cutting costs which will result in features becoming paywall'd, intrusive ads, creators losing their freedom, and/or outsider support which often results in the platform losing its core identity and alienating its tight-knit community.

If I had to describe what I'm talking about in a "pick one" graphic, it would look something like this:

(*note: this is mostly based on my own observations from using all of these sites at some point or another, they're not necessarily entirely accurate to the statistical performance of each site, I can only glean so much from experience and traffic trackers LMAO that said I did ask some comic pals for input and they were very helpful in helping me adjust it with their own takes <3).

The homogenization of the Internet has really whipped people into submission for the "big sites" that offer "everything", but that's never been the Internet, it relies on being multi-faceted and offering different spaces for different purposes. And we're seeing that ideology falter through the enshittification of sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where users are at odds with the platforms because the platforms are gutting features in an attempt to satisfy shareholders whom without the platforms would not exist. Like, most of us aren't paying money to use social media sites / comic platform sites, so where else are they gonna make the necessary funds to keep these sites running? Selling ad space and locking features behind paywalls.

And this is especially true for a lot of budding sites that don't have the audience to support them via crowdfunding but also don't have the leverage to ask for investments - so unless they get really REALLY lucky in EITHER of those departments, they're gonna be operating at a loss, and even once they do achieve either of those things there are gonna be issues in the site's longevity, whether it be dying from lack of growing crowdfunding support or dying from shareholder meddling.

So what can we do?

We can learn how to take our independence back. We don't have to stop using these big platforms altogether as they do have things to offer in their own way, particularly their large audience sizes and dipping into other demographics that might not be reachable from certain sites - but we gotta learn that no single site is going to satisfy every wish we have and we have to be willing to learn the skills necessary to running our own spaces again. Pick up HTML/CSS, get to know other people who know HTML/CSS if you can't grasp it (it's me, I can't grasp it LOL), be willing to take a chance on those "smaller sites" and don't write them off entirely as spaces that can be beneficial to you just because they don't have large numbers or because they don't offer rewards programs. And if you have a really polished piece of work in your hands, look into agencies and publishing houses that specialize in indie comics / graphic novels, don't settle for the first Originals contract that gets sent your way.

For the last decade corporations have been convincing us that our worth is tied to the eyes we can bring to them. Instead of serving ourselves, we've begun serving the big guys, insisting that it has to be worth something eventually and that it'll "payoff" simply by the virtue of gambler's fallacy. Ask yourself what site is right for you and your work rather than asking yourself if your work is good enough for them. Most of us are broke trying to make it work on these sites anyways, may as well be broke and fulfilled by posting in places that actually suit us and our work if we can. Don't define your success by what sites like Webtoons are enforcing - that definition only benefits them, not you.

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[relkefitness]

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[minasweep]

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100+/10 miss frizzle would kill 4 this

[wordstome]

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)