So it appears that I pulled my chest during yesterday's workout. Thought I was having a heart attack for a second. Realised I probably should have stretched for a while before working out. Anyway... that's now a new feature in the @setreps.app 🤣 #BuildInPublic

Well, this just changes everything for me in MyFitnessPal. Top-tier feature this.

I got tired of manually reading competitors' lowest-rated app reviews. I built a small tool that automates this for me. 🙌🏻 It collects low reviews from App Store & Google Play, then uses AI to find patterns and rank the pain points. Only took a few hours to build. #buildinpublic

Weighted Lunges are the worst leg exercise ever. Absolutely hate that the @setreps.app decided to throw that into my leg workout today. 🤣 Could just delete that exercise 🤣

Nearly 100k lifted so far by SetReps test users. I'll get that over the line later. 💪🏻 Testing is going well, added new features and some performance tweaks. My to-do list is much smaller now, it's nearly ready for launch! Promoting launch to the end of Feb.

Completed level 43, on to level 44 now. 🎂

The @setreps.app is getting closer to launch!! I've been using it for a month now and started noticing some design inconsistencies, so I've taken a screenshot of absolutely every screen in the app. I can easily see what needs tweaking next from this! #buildinpublic

Bought a new camera to test out for some content creation. Will eventually use this for my app's videos, too. How did I do? www.tiktok.com/@shanefromse... I'm well outside of my comfort zone filming stuff like this.

I'm a few days into creating content for TikTok and I now have a newfound respect for people that don't daily. This is a real grind to get things edited and published. If you're active over there see what you think of my first videos and give me a follow 😋 ⬇️⬇️

Three iterations of the same screen in my fitness app. 1️⃣ Initial wireframe idea (top section planned for video). 2️⃣ Updates after real workout use exposed friction. 3️⃣ Refined after sharing and getting feedback. Much happier now. It’s starting to feel like a real app! #buildinpublic

That'll do for now for the homescreen tweaks. Looks a little bit better. Those icons just didn't fit. I think I need to spend more time researching app designs. Absolutely procrastinated while doing this work and ended up creating a "Side Quests" mode. #BuildInPublic

5 workouts over 2 weeks logged in my app now. I think another week and it'll have plenty of data for my algorithm to start learning things. Absolutely taking the weekend off training, as the app recommends, and will be redesigning the home screen. #buildinpublic

I thought I was being clever by using a single-screen layout, advancing each exercise set as a new screen. It started to annoy me during last night's workout. So naturally, I've redesigned it to a single screen.🤣 Testing that on this evening's workout. #buildinpublic

Today in "What am I doing with this Fitness App?" I've created a small tool that uses ReMotion to generate some daily videos. Sharing these on socials like this to try and build up the socials Example in the comment below - Yesterday's video went 🚀 on TikTok #buildinpublic

Just spent the last 30 mins trying to work out why a decimal won't store in the database. Field was set as int4 🤣 That's me done for the day. 10 hours of work has cooked me.

Added some weekly review screens, which users can swipe through every Monday to see their progress. Really need to start thinking about the designs now that I have all the data collected for the screens. 🤣 #buildinpublic

Three workouts logged in the @setreps.app now. Starting to work really well. I think the big test will be a month or so in when there's tons of data logged for my account. Few more tweaks going on my list for tomorrow. #buildinpublic

@setreps.app is working great for me, and I'm only a few days in to using it. 🎉 The progressive overload logic is something I spent the most time on, and that's working perfectly🎉 Finding some small bugs, but mostly starting to hate the design now though. 😆 #buildinpublic

@setreps.app is working great for me, and I'm only a few days in to using it. 🎉 The progressive overload logic is something I spent the most time on, and that's working perfectly🎉 Finding some small bugs, but mostly starting to hate the design now though. 😆 #buildinpublic

Back to work we go!

@setreps.app is live! But only for me, for the next 3 months. I've just logged my first full workout in the app, which was a bit surreal. I now have a massive list of tweaks I want to fix before my next workout on Monday. The more workouts I log, the better the smart workout creation gets.

Only had a couple of these at the start of the year. That season pass was a beast. Might move to backyard ultras next.

Ride bike, earn 3 beers!

Well that was a pretty savage start to Boxing Day #crossfit

I've just had to pay off 😭 HMRC Corporation Tax 😪 HMRC VAT Bill 😖 Business AMEX Bill 😵‍💫 HMRC Self Assessment Bill 😮‍💨 Personal AMEX Bill Please help me through these difficult times by purchasing my most expensive domain names or making an offer on them. 🤣

One final early wake up on a Sunday in 2025 to lace in my racing chip onto my race shoes. Lets see if I can even get close to my PB.

Yeah, the image-sharing feature of my app, which has preset sizes for Insta, TikTok, Facebook is good and all... but check out the video creation I've just added too! 🔥🔥 I think I like this part of the app more than the rest of the app 🤣 #buildinpublic

If there's one thing I'm making sure is perfect in this app before launch, it's the workout sharing. Just finished creating pre-built Instagram and TikTok layouts so users can share their workouts and hopefully help drive new users into the app.

Not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but during the @setreps.app development, it consistently wants me to train legs. 🤣 My legs are fried from Zwift!

This is the same Adobe that "achieved record revenue of $5.99 billion in its third quarter of fiscal year 2025, which represents 11 percent year-over-year growth, or 10 percent in constant currency." Insane revenue, but we're still going to charge you more.

Fitness is one of those non-negotiables that goes on my calendar. Adding Zwift this week just helped me level up on that too.

Might need to double check my birth certificate.

Looks like I bought some bootleg product off Amazon a while back. They've just found out and refunded me.

Bought some jeans similar to what I used to wear in the 00s. Yep, that's my foot compared to the bottom of the leg. Wide bottom jeans are back!

Two race medals in two days. Followed by two days of full access to Alton Towers for all runners as a perk of entry. A hard 10km yesterday in 50:48 An equally as hard 5km today in 23:42 Two very sore legs in the morning I think.

Just blocked out my calendar with current client work up to May 1st. 🎉 Pretty nice being self-employed and having this stuff pretty much guaranteed. It does mean it reduces a lot of my time to work on my personal projects, though 😢 That'll have to move to a few evenings a week.

Been doing this with a terminal command for years on Mac. Just a small command that uses SIPS to convert images into a different format in batch. Turns out I can just convert images from the right-click menu

Gonna try and use Paraspeech for an entire day today. That also includes this post. The latest version is absolutely brilliant. I want to see how high I can get this cost saving.

Do I have anyone in the UK called Louis on here? Just spotted your dream domain name is up for auction for an absolute bargain. Recently picked up my firstname as a .co.uk earlier this year. You can't let an opportunity like this pass you by

Updated colour theory for 2025. You know it's right too.

The first "UK Porn Block" / "Child Safety" data breach is out. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked I knew it would be quick, but not that quick.

Anyone ever tested sending this back to Claude? Am I cooked?

Definitely need to promote my apps waiting list. Also need to build the social media accounts out. Also need to actually build the app! Some of this will be getting outsourced very soon. 👀 #buildinpublic #mobileapps

Yeah, time to add a WAF rule in Cloudflare to see who from China is a real human. Very abnormal traffic that.

What are you all using for paywalls in mobile apps? - RevenueCat - Adapty - Superwall These seem to be the big three unless I've missed some. #reactnative #expo #mobileapps

Please buy my domains so that I can then, in turn afford to buy other domain names. Currently for sale StarGirl.co.uk LoudShirts.co.uk TheTeaCup.co.uk LegalWeed.co.uk MatchdayMerch.co.uk #domainnames #domains

Always a fun day.

Old iOS - Boring slider New iOS - Fancy bubble glass slider thingy Waiting for someone to release a UI Kit now to add backwards compatibility effect to older versions of iOS. #buildinpublic #expo #reactnative

This Nano Banana camera is pretty insane. Mobile browsers only, though. https://v0bananacam.vercel.app/

If you find yourself suddenly looking for an alternative to NextJS, I highly recommend Astro. https://astro.build/ I've been using this for years now to create rapid frontends for my and my clients' sites. Time to start seeing what sort of backend applications I can make with this now.