Next! Is an A.I. powered gym. You work out with smart mirrors. The mirrors demo how to do each workout, counts your reps, gives feedback on form, and adds gamification. Computer vision automatically tracks workouts. You can check all your metrics in an app.
Hey Hunters,
We’re Derek & Eric, a team deeply passionate about health & fitness.
We built Next! Because we thought fitness is broken. 80% of gym users quit before achieving their goals. We thought this had to change.
We wanted to build a gym that makes working out easy, fun, and effective. A gym that:
--- Plans all your workouts for you,
--- Shows you how to do new exercises,
--- Automatically tracks your workouts,
--- Lets you measure your body fat %,
--- Gives you feedback on your form
--- Gamifies the experience, to make it fun & interesting
Nothing like this existed. So we decided to build it.
Using an Amazon Go-like system, we’ve built a gym that gives you a “personal trainer experience”, without having to pay for one.
For our launch, we’re giving away stock options, free memberships, and a bunch of other prizes. I hope you’ll check it out!
Derek & Eric,
-- Next! Fitness Team
Technology Note: Our tech stack includes ML models we’ve trained from scratch, including YOLO-based object detection models and Hourglass-based pose estimation models. Happy to answer any questions about our tech!
Privacy Note: All our inference is processed offline, no data is sent to cloud providers like AWS. No personally identifiable visual exercise data is ever stored, on our servers or cloud servers.
@derekpankaew a bit of feedback on the video: i like **real** footage. I’d much rather watch you as the founder show a real person using it for the first time how it works.
It sounds really cool, but I’m not a fan of applications like that. I honestly don’t believe it since an application won’t be able to understand what my body needs. All of my life I had been really lazy and unfit but eight months ago I decided to change that. I decided that I had to find a personal trainer who would help me change my body. I asked around, and everyone said that Lucas James had the best personal training program. I decided to give it a shot, and I wasn’t disappointed at all. This man changed my life and all of my habits. Today I’m a fit and happy man who is still improving.
@edisonjoao6871 Thanks Edison! We've been working on it for about a year.
Developing each computer vision model - like the ability to detect barbells, or to know where your arms & legs are - took 1-2 months each. The smart mirror took a couple months as well. The iOS app took 2 months to develop.
Raising VC money also took a couple months. Then we actually built a gym in San Francisco, installed all the systems, and got the whole system to work together. In total, we've been working on it for about a year. We're super excited to finally share what we've been working on 😁
@derekpankaew thank you for sharing the timeline and a bit of insight. As a fellow founder, hearing that part and the finish product always inspires me. Congrats man! Can't imagine how you must feel seeing your vision come to life.
Can't wait to either go to one when in San Fran or for when you guys expand to South Florida!
All the best!
@adsidera1 Hi Anna! I love the excitement 😁I think it looks cool too! (I’m a little biased obviously)
The smart mirror does a few things:
- It shows you the workout plan for today (you can also check or edit it in the app),
- It demonstrates how to do new workouts (form, pacing, etc),
- It counts your reps as you’re doing them,
- It gives you encouragement & challenges you to push a little further,
- It checks your form, which helps prevent injuries,
- After finishing an exercise, it shows you where in the gym to go for your next exercise
This is just what we’re starting with, we’re planning to add more to the mirror as we go :)
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