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Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

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827 points surgomat | 3 comments | 18 Jun 25 12:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source

I was the main contributor to workout.lol, an open-source fitness app to easily build a workout routine. The project had traction (1.4k GitHub stars, 95 forks, ~20K visits/month), but was eventually sold due to video licensing hurdles. The new owner stopped maintaining it, and the repo went abandoned.

Over the next 9 months, I sent 15 emails to try to save it : no replies. Feature requests & issues were ignored. The community was left with a "broken" tool let's say.

I couldn't just let it die So I built the new version from scratch with the same open-source spirit, but a better architecture long-term vision, more features and no license problems.

It's called : Workout.cool (https://workout.cool). What it offers: 100% open-source, MIT-licensed - 1200+ exercises (with videos, attributes, translations) - Progress tracking - Multilingual-ready - Self-hostable

I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing it because I believe in open fitness tools, and I’ve been passionate about strength training for 15+ years.

If this resonates with you, feel free to: - Star the repo - Share with fitness/tech friends - Suggest features - Contribute code/design/docs

Together, we can build the open-source fitness platform we all wanted to easily build a workout routine and get in shape

Website: https://workout.cool GitHub: https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool

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tonyhart7 ◴[18 Jun 25 13:30 UTC] No.44309743[source]▶
wow, its great tool

has muscle selection is so much more help full than 80+% apps on app store right now

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1. surgomat ◴[18 Jun 25 15:19 UTC] No.44310670[source]▶
Does that mean that i got to do a mobile app? Do you think its worth it ?
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2. ◴[18 Jun 25 15:46 UTC] No.44310906[source]▶
3. billyjmc ◴[18 Jun 25 16:29 UTC] No.44311268[source]▶
It could potentially help with discoverability. As it stands, I’d imagine it takes a very particular sort of search query (either “open source fitness” in Google or “fitness” on GitHub) to have a chance at finding this. Unless your target audience is only the intersection of FOSS-advocates and fitness folks, you might be limiting adoption.

With that said, the website works just fine on my phone.