Accountability App for Pastor Fitness Cohorts
For an organization running fitness accountability cohorts for middle-aged pastors
- The problem
- The men this is built for do not use fitness trackers, and building them a better tracker would have missed the point entirely. What gets them to the gym is another man already being there. Two hard constraints shaped the rest: disclosing a pastor's location during working hours is a professional liability, and food logging had to stay away from anything social.
- What we built
- Cohorts you join with a code. Shared sessions with RSVPs. A presence board showing who is at the gym right now, where being visible is always a deliberate tap and never automatic. When someone checks in and nobody else is there, the group gets a text and can reply to join them.
- Where it stands
- That text is the whole product, so it is the part built carefully. A check-in takes a lock on the cohort, so two people arriving at the same moment cannot both count as first and text everyone twice. A nervous double tap does nothing. Every message is logged with the reason it was or was not sent, so nobody has to guess why a reply did not land. In build on staging.