u/blakesynclair

I write this in hopes others can learn from me.

Last year I had reached out to the team at Enhanced Games. Essentially they've taken the world by storm by being the "enhanced olympic games", where athletes can use PEDs in order to shatter world records.

I had reached out as an applicant to be a participant in the games, scored an interview and actually pitched a sponsorship and my SaaS to them, and with great success. They loved what they heard and wanted to know more.

They requested a pitch deck and then consequently followed me up twice. I ignored both follow ups out of paralysing fear of my product not being good enough and fear of rejection and judgement.

Enhanced Games has a wide portfolio of companies under the umbrella and they're not 'just' an event. Their coverage and exposure was beyond insane, Enhanced Games IPO'd NYSE at a IPO value of $1b.

Essentially, I fumbled the potential of working with a $1b company whos founders are in both tech and fitness. Essentially my ideal partners and it was all because of fear.

In tech theres a saying "Move fast and break things". I did neither. I fumbled and froze.

My 2c, go out, find opportunities and don't let fear stop you from the unknown.

This is one of my biggest regrets of my business journey, not letting fitapp.io be shown because of my own fears. Dont be like me

So some context, I have a online fitness coaching saas. Essentially a CRM for PTs / Nutritionists etc to create deliverables, manage and communicate with clients and then for their clients to track everything their coach sends them.

This is a workout generation tool that allows you to generate programs from beginner to professional athlete standard and beyond.
From rough MVP concept to live, this feature took about 4 - 5 weeks to get to a stage where we're happy. But I can confidently say this feature IS the first of its kind in any competitor app / platform in my space.

AI is nothing new, but people would slap in a single prompt and get a result. Now, we allow multi prompts for each specific field, then the ai will generate a program day by day, taking into account all your data provided, explain reasoning for each decision, explain trade offs, pros VS cons and then allow you to converse with it to refine.

Our goal was to allow people who may not be confident / proficient at exercise programming and program at the highest level possible.

This feature, for those who have an understanding of the fitness industry, imo is INSANELY impressive and something I am beyond proud of.

What are your thoughts?

So overnight my devs pushed an minor update live on for our front end on fitapp.io, it was just to include mobile number in the client sign up process.

They accidentally also pushed some new features that we were still testing live and I didn't notice till the next morning and its still being fixed 11hrs later.

Initially panicked, but then checked the usage stats for the feature and saw it had actually been used and successful.

Remembered a trend on social media where people were making fake "apology" posts / announcements that were actually highlighting something brilliant.

Decided to do this, and turned out to be a massive success and got great feedback. Used this as an opportunity to "tease" the feature and play it off as intentional.

Take away point: Find a silver lining for everything.