Finding a real problem to solve
For the past few years, I have been passionate about working on projects that help me to manage i18n resources, yet nothing ever seemed to catch on in the market. I even found a niche that I thought would take off with i18n management for Flutter apps, but to no avail.
So, I decided to take up working out and signed up with a personal trainer. I went from struggling with 30kg to being able to lift around 90kg in only five weeks. Unfortunately, my trainer quit their job and I was left with five weeks of workouts that I had already paid for, yet no one to guide me. This led me to losing my structure and schedule for working out, and eventually my interest in it as well.
In order to replace that drive, I decided to use OpenAI to experiment with different prompts and eventually generate the same type of exercises that my PT had been giving me. After showing it to some friends, they asked me to put it into an app for them.
And so I created GymBuddy.ai, an A.I-powered workout planner and generator. Working on this project was a great learning experience for me as I got to learn React Native, work with Realm and Stripe, and learn mobile development, despite it not being my forte. Our version 1 beta is available now on the Google Play Store. You can check it out here
There are a multitude of things that i've learned from this process and I'll summarise below
- Don't solve for a problem you think exists
- Inspiration can come from anywhere
- React native is awesome!
- I love full stack javascript
- Even an awesome idea takes work to get the word out there.
Thank you for taking the time to read about the start of my journey, it's been fun and thankfully it's only starting. For first time users you can get 60% off with this code GYMBUDDY1ST
