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

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827 points surgomat | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 12:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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kylebenzle ◴[18 Jun 25 14:27 UTC] No.44310212[source]▶
Is this not just more AI slop? Why is anyone commenting or voint it up?
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mrln ◴[18 Jun 25 14:54 UTC] No.44310454[source]▶
How do you even come to that conclusion? There's nothing on that page that screams "AI slop" to me.
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blitztime ◴[18 Jun 25 15:03 UTC] No.44310533[source]▶
The readme and the emojis seem heavily AI.
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edude03 ◴[18 Jun 25 15:12 UTC] No.44310613[source]▶
Could be, I've seen a weird trend of using AI to write content when it doesn't make sense. Sure, using it to write a blog post about a topic is "slop" but I can see arguments for it. Using it to improve thoughts you have in your head, by making up details and add emojis however, I can't understand.

For example as a heavy FB Market place user I see a lot of stuff like:

[picture of an iPhone 12]

- iphone 14 - new battery - delivers to [enter your state here] - comes with [enter accessories it comes with]

Like they were too lazy to even fill in the brackets or ensure some level of accuracy. What's the point?

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1. throwawayoldie ◴[18 Jun 25 15:55 UTC] No.44310983[source]▶
That's a problem that was solved in the 1980s with the introduction of "mail merge" functionality in word processors. Using an LLM to do this is like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.