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Re:Show HN: Workout planner by mkeung on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:00PM (#5456068)
yes, our servers were not ready then so we deleted the post within 10 minutes to not waste people's time.

Thanks for the suggestions, one idea with the exercise db we had is to allow users to submit new ones / update existing ones. We would have to approve it, so our db would stay clean. Thoughts?

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Re:Show HN: Workout planner by silentpost on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:11PM (#5456147)
I think an admin approval would be a nightmare in terms of scalability. Why not crowdsource the approval system, with some sort of voting feature for user-submitted exercises?

check out myfitnesspal; they have user-submitted recipes. the recipes can either be private, or public with user-submitted confirmation on the ingredients/accuracy.

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Re:Show HN: Workout planner by squizzi on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:41PM (#5457455)
Howdy, Kyle here (4th co-founder, designer on the team). Just to add to this, initially the Plans page was intended to be a Plans database with differing tabs of Plan related content and I think your comment solidifies the need for it. I love the idea of user-submitted voting and I think that would fit the bill for a tab within the 'Plans' page that shows publicly shared plans. Thank you for the feedback.
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Re:Show HN: Workout planner by kbouw on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:34PM (#5456757)
Makes sense. We'll check it out, thanks.
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