UpPush
Get the extra motivating push right before your workouts.
My goal was to bootstrap https://www.uppush.me with minimal costs, using serverless technology as much as possible, and free or cheap hosting.
I found out about AWS Scheduler, which is a pay-as-you-go service by AWS with a generous free tier for scheduling practically anything in a cronjob-style. Then AWS SNS for sending SMS messages – it gets tricky with SNS because of limitations and requirements for sending an SMS to some countries, but you can still cover most of the global population in a cost-effective way (from comparing with other providers like Twilio). As a database, DynamoDB works great, and also has a generous free tier.
The UI and APIs are build with Next.js + Meterial UI, all hosted on Vercel.
I found out that keeping a goal of 30 days for building an MVP is incredibly effective for time management, because it pushes you to focus on the essential features, and not waste time on nice-to-have's.
All in all, the MVP is out in the wild, and now is time to focus on getting it to the world, yay!
Best,
Redouane
Habits beat motivation...but sometimes it's good to have a little boost of motivation for a workout :)
With this in mind, I started working on https://www.uppush.me, a web service where users sign up to receive motivating quotes just before workouts.
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