What our users taught us
We were looking at Hound in the wrong way. A few examples:
1. The metrics we tracked were less relevant in the past. People wanted to see them as they were working out. What weight is on the bar, what rep am I on, what is my velocity doing, etc. By the time you rack the bar and open your phone, the ability to act on that information is gone.
2. Velocity needed intelligent interpretation, not just display. Serious lifters know what they are looking for, but most people had no idea why they should care about velocity. Once the more serious lifters told us the patterns they look for, we could distill that into our app.
3. One number at a glance. Some people told us again and again that they wanted as few metrics as possible. They wanted to look at the app and see a simple number score representing how their workout went. On top all of that, the fundamentals still had to be dialed in. Seeing your data for a given day, tracking progress over time, and manually logging a workout all needed basic refinement.
