PushPress

Today we released an upgrade to our long standing worlds best free workout timer.

This update fully removes ads from the free version, so you can workout without the noise of an ad on your timer. It also paves the way for a watch companion app with our (hopefully) next release.

New voices, faster timer engine, and more!
https://www.pushpress.com/workout-timer

So COVID has really hurt our industry. Boutique Gyms. Much respect to all of our clients (and the industry as a whole) they've really been slogging through this to make the best of things.

And let's be real, their work is more important now than ever. COVID and all diseases pick apart people who are unwell. Fitness studios and gyms are fighting this battle daily - from the ground floor.

So we decided to stand up and stand behind this industry. We launched our own Cash Grant program and gave away a bunch of $500 cash grants to gym owners in need.

Hoping more companies out there (especially in fitness) do the same. SMB / Mom and Pops need it.

October will close over $7M in client billing for us. Client billing is a key metric we track - as it shows client success.
In our world, our clients (gyms) setup up monthly recurring subscriptions fro their clients (gym members). The more memberships our clients are stacking, the more successful our clients are.

Shout out to my mentor Dan Martell for throwing these thrice annual SAI events. Ready to learn a ton and bring them back to my tribe and company. This time I have my cpo, chief success officer, and websites department head with me to learn alongside.

If any of you are here in San Diego for the intensive holler at me.

To be honest, we are passionate product people and we don't spend enough time in the community telling our story.

Recently we've come across the concept of "50 coffee meetings in 50 days" and we decided to expand this to "just get your butts out there and meet people, tell your story and listen to theirs".

From this decision, we've done crazy things like... reaching out to people and companies to talk about PushPress. As a result, we've gotten published here on Indiehackers and now, at StarterStory (https://www.starterstory.com/software-for-fitness-centers)

Crazy concept, we know - go out and talk to people... set forth and listen to people... =)

We’ve begun following EOS recently, and this year we took our annual hackathon and turned it into a legit team building, core value centric retreat.

Being a largely distributed team, this was really important this year, as our headcount went from 7 last year to 16 this year. We are now at a size where culture can either sink or catapult growing companies.

Here’s a general outline of our retreat if you find your company might benefit from it:

Day 1
Founders welcome speech / 2019 recap / 2020 goals / core value introduction and explanation / core value discussion.

During this speech we also dropped a bomb on them all, breaking them into teams and telling they had 24 hours to think of a world changing product PushPress could build and present a compelling press release for it. This format follows a popular and well documented process amazon employs to stoke innovation.

BBQ at vrbo beachfront rental

Day 2
PRESS RELEASE DAY
Teams got two three hour chunks to work on their press releases. We had a guest ex VP from amazon come by and give guidance to the teams and nudge them in the right directions.

For a short fitness break between those three hour sessions, we did bubble soccer, which was a huge hit with the team. Pun intended.

Press release presentation and dinner out + bar crawl capped the night.

Day 3
Department presentation day
We asked our departments to put together a presentation to share something exciting they’re working on with the team as a whole.

Many times the nuances of each department are missed - and those details can be quite exciting.

For example when engineering showed sales how selenium worked, I saw a few heads explode 😂

Quick beach workout lead by a CrossFit HQ staff trainer. Followed by beach volleyball.

Dinner at a local brewery

Recap

• the core values presentation and discussion was more important than I realized. It was met really well and I saw so much immediate alignment. This is very important for a scaling team and the impact was literally immediate.
• Press release day was an amazing experience. It was like a product version of a hackathon. Not a single line of code was written but the effort put into solving bug real world problems was amazing.
• Playing bubble soccer with a team of really strong athletic / ex-military folks can be a painful experience. 😂