Russian Gyminee
Recently, reading the post on Habré about Gyminee , I noticed that this topic is very interesting, and could not write about the project that we have been developing for 8 long months already;).
Looking for ideas
At the time of the emergence of the idea, we already had very little experience in developing Internet projects, but what was - could hardly be compared in scale with what we would like to do.
For us, then, the very idea of doing something big was somewhere beyond perception as possible.
Having studied the Russian-language and English-speaking Internet, we realized that a lot of interesting ideas had been implemented a long time ago, and very successfully.
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Once, when I was sorting out my young man's sports bag, I found him with some kind of notebook, all written with strange notes and scribbles like “Press 120x5x4x3x2x1”, “Rest more - tired!” Then still hieroglyphs, these records caused my interest, and I decided to ask what their mystical meaning is.
He explained that those who train seriously keep training diaries in order to plan their progress in “training weights” and “increasing lean muscle mass”.
Ta-da-da-da ... Angel Light was poured from heaven, and we immediately understood what people were missing. By the way, this idea was also already implemented by English-speaking startups, and besides gyminee we came across a number of interesting projects.
Having studied the question in more detail, we decided on this topic and stop.
It took some time to choose the name: almost all the options that we liked and contained the words ala body, bodybuilding, etc. were busy.
Then we turned to the idea of our project: to create a network for those who are in love with sports, so that they effectively train and communicate to improve their bodies. Here is the name: body-network and the slogan for the development of “build your network to improve your body” or easier, but in Russian “Together is stronger”.
Development
As I mentioned above, the development took us 8 months.
Idea idea, but everyone wanted to eat. Therefore, we had to work on cold winter evenings with akerosene desk lamp in complete ignorance from when to approach.
Lack of money helped us to invent ingenious ways to convince freelancers to draw us 32 psd pages for 150 USD. and in general - experiment;).
As it turned out, it was better to save money and do everything yourself. This, as it turned out, applies to layout.
As a result, we had to partially refine both the design and layout.
The development process had a “enriching” effect on our minds, so that in parallel we mastered a number of new (for us) technologies: AJAX, Flex, learned to draw in Photoshop, make videos in Adobe Premiere, etc.
At the exit
At the output, we have a 99% completed project, which we will initially launch in the CIS, and after finalizing the errors, we will translate into other languages.
In addition to standard social functions such as Friends, Groups, Blogs, etc., Body-network.ru helps users:
We are now announcing the start of the testing phase. We ask you to help us with this case and get an invitation to participate in testing.
We thought that it would be necessary to somehow encourage your help to us, so everyone who takes part in testing will participate in the raffle of valuable prizes.
And not in a random order, but for your activity: the number of errors found, the best wish, etc.
We are waiting for feedback from you and invite you to test .
Looking for ideas
At the time of the emergence of the idea, we already had very little experience in developing Internet projects, but what was - could hardly be compared in scale with what we would like to do.
For us, then, the very idea of doing something big was somewhere beyond perception as possible.
Having studied the Russian-language and English-speaking Internet, we realized that a lot of interesting ideas had been implemented a long time ago, and very successfully.
')
Once, when I was sorting out my young man's sports bag, I found him with some kind of notebook, all written with strange notes and scribbles like “Press 120x5x4x3x2x1”, “Rest more - tired!” Then still hieroglyphs, these records caused my interest, and I decided to ask what their mystical meaning is.
He explained that those who train seriously keep training diaries in order to plan their progress in “training weights” and “increasing lean muscle mass”.
Ta-da-da-da ... Angel Light was poured from heaven, and we immediately understood what people were missing. By the way, this idea was also already implemented by English-speaking startups, and besides gyminee we came across a number of interesting projects.
Having studied the question in more detail, we decided on this topic and stop.
It took some time to choose the name: almost all the options that we liked and contained the words ala body, bodybuilding, etc. were busy.
Then we turned to the idea of our project: to create a network for those who are in love with sports, so that they effectively train and communicate to improve their bodies. Here is the name: body-network and the slogan for the development of “build your network to improve your body” or easier, but in Russian “Together is stronger”.
Development
As I mentioned above, the development took us 8 months.
Idea idea, but everyone wanted to eat. Therefore, we had to work on cold winter evenings with a
Lack of money helped us to invent ingenious ways to convince freelancers to draw us 32 psd pages for 150 USD. and in general - experiment;).
As it turned out, it was better to save money and do everything yourself. This, as it turned out, applies to layout.
As a result, we had to partially refine both the design and layout.
The development process had a “enriching” effect on our minds, so that in parallel we mastered a number of new (for us) technologies: AJAX, Flex, learned to draw in Photoshop, make videos in Adobe Premiere, etc.
At the exit
At the output, we have a 99% completed project, which we will initially launch in the CIS, and after finalizing the errors, we will translate into other languages.
In addition to standard social functions such as Friends, Groups, Blogs, etc., Body-network.ru helps users:
- track your training progress
- form and coordinate a nutrition plan
- create and share training tips
- view themed video, etc.
We are now announcing the start of the testing phase. We ask you to help us with this case and get an invitation to participate in testing.
We thought that it would be necessary to somehow encourage your help to us, so everyone who takes part in testing will participate in the raffle of valuable prizes.
And not in a random order, but for your activity: the number of errors found, the best wish, etc.
We are waiting for feedback from you and invite you to test .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/39527/
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