martindawson / reggest

A fitness plan recommendation tool.

reggest.com

Prerequisites

1. Yarn
2. Dotnet SDK
3. Microsoft SQL Server
4. Watchman

Dev Setup

1. run git clone https://github.com/MartinDawson/Reggest.git on your command prompt
2. run cd Reggest/Reggest to move into the source directory of the solution
3. run yarn install to install the npm packages
4. run yarn run setup to setup the project
5. Create a '.env' file in this directory. I.e "Reggest/Reggest/.env". Copy and paste all of the variables from the .env variables section here into this file.
6. run yarn run start to start the project
7. Open http://localhost:49891

A new database called 'Reggest' will be created in MSSQL with the credentials:

• Server name: '.'
• Authentication: 'Windows Authentication'

This database will then be filled with the correct schema and data automatically when you run the app.

.env variables

NODE_ENV=development
RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=6Ley01QUAAAAAHFUtLNjjoZzJAOEqr1iyztvEECM

Feedback

https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/8f5ct5/i_created_a_website_that_recommends_fitness_plans/?st=jgjjqg9m&sh=c12a96e5

The problem

There are a lot of fitness plans in the world that overwhelm beginners

The solution

Implement a simplistic QandA functionality type app that suggests the best fitness plans to meet the users goals

Key aspects

• Must provide a fitness plan that meets the users needs
• Must be as simple as possible for the user
• The faster the user gets to their chosen fitness plan in as little questions as possible the better
• Must only provide fitness plans that are being used by many people and/or have proven results

Current Target Audience

• Beginners who are starting fitness in gyms, specifically users from r/fitness and r/xxfitness

Business Model

• Free app

Competitors

• http://www.rohitnair.net/pp/:
  • End results are a long wall of text for some chosen features
  • Doesn't list many results for chosen fitness programs
  • Unnecessary choices such as Police/Military Training which noone cares about
  • Not specific enough to users goals, e.g. days per week training
• https://www.bodbot.com/
  • Doesn't list specific fitness plans such as 'Strong Curves', 'Nsuns' etc but instead gives specific exercices
  • Not recommended by r/xxfitness or r/fitness to do this but instead to use pre-made tested plans
• http://www.strongur.io/
  • Same problems as bodbot

reggest's Issues

List the fitness plans as a list ranking from descending order as a closest match to user goals

Add links/resources to each fitness plan

• Multiple links and resources should be added I guess

Add plans for r/fitness

Make the site look better with styling changes

Cross browser test

See browserslist in package.json

Setup staging environment

Not bothering until more users.

Implement QAndA using a points system for the fitness plans

Newsletter signup

Implement basic UI

Setup CI

Not bothering until more users.

Error 404 styling is poor

https://www.reggest.com/error/404

Error and message should be centred.

Create newsletter campaigns in mailchimp

Share with friends on social media

• Facebook share

Multiple day plans

Research questions, answers and fitness plans

Keep the target audience in mind

• Must only provide fitness plans that are being used by many people and/or have proven results, for example: Nsuns, Strong Curves, StrongLifts etc.
• Fitness plans that have variations for the fitness plans are very useful, for example: Nsuns 6/4/3 day variations, as these can then be targeted towards people who have different days then can make it to the gym.
• Fitness plans MUST include those on r/xxfitness
• A list of useful links for each fitness plan would be awesome, for example if the user gets 'Strong Curves' as a fitness plan then we could include the following as resources:
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/3k7e47/ok_the_color_coded_google_excel_strong_curve/?st=jfzvxru9&sh=a1dd43f2
  • A strongcurves app link?

Implement legal stuff

Add images to go along with the questions/answers

Not yet decided on exactly what images.

Add question for machine work, similar to dumbell and barbell questions

Server setup image

Add likes for website

Change wording from fitness plans to 'lifting plans'

As suggested by the top commentor: https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/8f5ct5/i_created_a_website_that_recommends_fitness_plans/?st=jgjemsgv&sh=a346f493

At least until we have fitness plans as well.

Footer should be stickied to the bottom of the page at all times.

For example: The footer for https://www.reggest.com/badUrl is not stickied to bottom of the page.

• Should be relative position
• Should work the same on multiple pages
• Content should not overflow on it

redirect reggest.com to www.reggest.com

Adjust messages for some of the questions to be more beginner friendly

For example: "How much do you want to use..." to "how comfortable are you using..."

Check out the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/8f5ct5/i_created_a_website_that_recommends_fitness_plans/?st=jgjemsgv&sh=a346f493

Add SSR

• Remove the og tags and some meta tags from .ejs as well.

Can't connect to http://www.reggest.com/

Is the site down? I just get a 'site not found' error.