Bits of Fitness Advice for Startup Founders [PART 2]
This is not a very interesting article. It`s more about technical side of project. Hope somebody will use it. So, let`s start!
Database with data(trainers, activity) must be imported from the start.
Project will have 3 main roles with different dashboards, pages: User, Trainer, Admin
First trainers and users can be imported into the database.
Calendar with incoming events, related to your project. It must have filtration by types, categories, dates, etc.
I think the best(read fast) it will start from events. This event will be displayed on your website.
This is not what you want most, but using this way you’ll start to grow your website, you’ll attract first users. You’ll be able to store user emails.
Then you’ll have ability send newsletters after the event finished with rating functionality. So you’ll start to store locations, ratings, user data.
If we’ll go by my plan — you’ll be able to launch first part with events in 1 month. You also start to understand how to manage this project, you’ll need to search events and add them to the database.
Booking functionality will be posted in another article later.
For booking, we’ll have 3 working options.
- Inner users, they’ll search events inside your network
- Personal advertising from trainers — users will go to your network from trainer. Will be got to have an outer place for trainer profile.
- People, who train with trainer on daily basis and trainer decide to move them to your system because it more manageable.
It will be like small sub-project on your application
Admin can
~ edit user
~ trainer management
~ event management
Email templates(additional document)
~ invite to events
~ invite to friends
~ weekly newsletter
~ invite to groups
Pages(views) list
Events list by town. Apply to event
`admin side`
User management, trainer management
Edit
Add ability to see users, related to trainer
Event Management
Support, contact messages(maybe)
Trainer pages
Dashboard
Profile
Subscription
— Checkout
— Thank you, page — redirected after payment was completed
Logout
Sign up user
Schedule Training Appointment
— Add appointment
— Edit appointment
— Cancel
Manage(Create/Edit/View)
Trainer profile
Activities
Schedule calendar
User list related to trainer
Events
Ratings
Manage(Edit/Delete)
— Information (complex)
— Appointments (complex)
— Next appointment
— Finish appointment
Member profile
Training
Events
Training/Events calendar(display training, events, past, and future)
Users to follow(after entering interests, town) — users list filtered by towns/interests with button follow.
Events list by town
DB entities
Appointment
Events
Activities( can be single, can be multiple. )
Trainer/User profiles
Reviews( id, type, score )
Rewards( reward list, single reward, user rewards, scoreboards )
Questions
Do you need fitness trackers integrations?
Do you need alerts or timers?
Do you need to setup newsletter?
Can one user belong to a few different trainer?
Can different trainers belong to one fitness center?
If one trainer is ill, can he move user appointment to another trainer?
Can trainer create a new user?
Can you give me more details on activities/rewards logic?
Can I delete user? All stored user data erased?
Enable cookies?
When the appointment was successfully scheduled — do we need to send email to the professional mail address, after appointment submit? Integration with Google Calendar, iCal, Yahoo Calendar?
Do you need affiliate system? So for friend invites you can give gifts.
Do you want to have advertising or promotion things? So default training cost $x but special offers have discount 20%.
Do we need to store information for each user, but please explain what information must be.
Did you have completed app design or this was an example?
Chat must be 1-to-1 or you want to have more custom functionality?
How do you will handle support? Will you have helpdesk where I’ll be able to read some information and solve my problems with your project?
Do you need to have recurring events? If yes, you’ll need to use Stripe payment gateway.
Do you want to import friends from social networks?
Will Only adults participate in your events? Or a child’s too? If you want to train children — how you’ll check that trainer have a special education? Do you want to have some verification process?
Trainer related questions.
How will payments be handled? On event place or via application?
How do you want to store client money?
How you’ll handle money back situations?
How you’ll send money to trainers?
Features
Competition (by types, by cities, by states, by country)
Community search
Search by place, by users interests.
Filtration by: age, sex, workout skills( new, few times per week, few years of training, pro/trainer )
Training type( bike, running, basketball, swimming, soccer, baseball, tennis, box, gym/workout)
Notes
The big question about activity and what do you want to put on this term. Please describe me about an activity. If I run 30 minutes — this is activity, right? How this can be compared with other activities. What is better — 4 hours on the bike or run 1 hour. And how this can be counted.
I think you want to add gamification to your application. This is cool and motivates your users to move forward. I know few startups, that gives ability to create a list of rewards, scores, scoreboards. I think you need to create a list of rewards and share with me
We need to discuss what will be included in trainer profile. Biography? Study place? Do we need to display results, accomplishments? Do we need to display certificates, completed training? I can create something, but want to hear your thoughts.
Add rating to trainer functionality. Send notifications to event participators after the event finished. Will be generated a custom link using user_id and event_id. This will prevent fake submissions. You can rate event, facility, and see a friend list.
Do we need to have functionality for money back, for setting a bad review for the trainer? Can a user send a complaint and trainer can send appear?
You mentioned, “agencies, businesses”. Do you want to create accounts for fitness centers with trainers inside them?
It will be cool to have place related to food. So trainer can track my food and control what I’m eating if I have a weight loss goal.
When I got an invite to the event — I need to receive email or push notification.
If you’ll have payments, you’ll need to store billing address, send invoices, store orders in order history.
Ideas
I propose to import data from Apple iHealth or Apple Watches.
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