Inspiration
For as long as I can remember I had been this good for nothing "individual" with nothing going for me. Everyday I’d adopt a new personality from a new tv show a new fitness regimen a new accent just whatever I thought would make me look cool. Nothing ever worked though. I had been spinning my wheels for three years with nothing to show for them. Until, one morning at the crack of dawn the only friend I had gave me a call. He wanted us to run together. I was pretty baffled by his offer since he was a zonal champion. As for me? I’d probably lose to him on a race even if he was walking and I was running. I’d always blamed my flat feet and bulky physique for my inability to run long distances. Everything changed that day though. I did not magically become Mo farah but in that moment I felt like I was pretty close. On my first day I ran a mere 2 kilometers in 500 metre intervals. My core was on fire and I wanted to quit somewhere around the 250 metre mark. My friend though kept pushing me onward no matter how much I wanted to quit. There were days when my legs were on fire. Days when my shins felt like they’d split in two. Days when my head throbbed so bad I could barely understand where I was going. I pulled through though. Through the excruciating pain hopelessness and agony. All because I had someone running beside me. Someone who sacrificed his training for my own. Someone who kept pushing me forward rain hail or storm. Someone who picked me up from that darkness I was lost in and showed me a world of light. Fitness isn’t a part of life It’s a way of life. I understood what this quote meant when my friend and I had run a half marathon together. It had been a month in the works. A month of grueling mind numbing pain. A month of making the impossible possible. A month that changed the course of my life. I had never felt so confident dedicated and driven as I did when I was running. Those runs taught me that there is no one way to enjoy sports. They taught me the fruits putting yourself out there bears. One can be the most unathletic unfit person on the field and yet enjoy the activity you indulge in because of your persistence dedication and sometimes a caring friend. Whatever background fitness level or physique anyone has the gods of sport bless every one equally. One can become the best version of themselves by simply not giving up. There are no losers in the world of fitness there are only learners.
This is why I came up with the idea of visfit. A platform that embraces everyone from all walks of life and helps them be the best they can be. Not everyone has the luxury of having a friend like mine. Some are bullied harassed ostracized for their appearances. Some struggle with body dysmorphia and a myriad of different complexes. Visfit aims at empowering the powerless. A judgement free platform where not only can everyone converse freely but also work towards a greater goal, together.
A platform that helps you find your Raunak Rai.
Convenience
⭐ Anywhere :Users can communicate with other likeminded users on the move.
Whether it’s a tedious treadmill run or a trail session through the dense forests. So long as users have a cellular connection they will have a company on their workout session.
⭐ Anytime :Since visfit attracts customers from all across the globe one will not feel alone even while working out in the middle of the nights.
People in different time zones with a common language and topics to converse about are paired together irrespective of their regions.
⭐ Anyone:Usually users are often restricted to their own locality or or neighborhood for seeking fitness advice or engaging in a sport.
Visfit provides a platform to all sports and activities.
Visfit is so convenient that a teenager playing golf in Namibia may also converse with and seek advice from a professional golfer from Amsterdam.
There is no discrimination bias or restriction on visfit as a platform. Visfit treats every athlete as a valuable asset for carrying the legacy of the sport further to future generations.
Utility:
⭐️Conversation: Whether it’s a tedious jogging session or a long walk down the noisy suburbs, visfit has your back.
Athletes of all sports may use visfit to communicate with fellow athletes and make their sessions less tedious and jarring. It is specially useful for those senior citizens and stressed out office workers who simply want to be in their best shape without competing. People walking alone may give up after a mile or two after succumbing to boredom and repetitiveness. People walking with visfit will give up after no less than six miles after succumbing to a low battery and the best conversation of their life.
Not only the beginners and non pro athletes it also helps the professionals push each other further. Their is nothing more thrilling than the rhythmic sounds of the pants the swooshing winds and the occasional noisy bursts of adrenaline. Every athlete knows this. We leverage this to keep the morale of the pro athletes up and have them prevent each other both from under training as well as over training.
⭐Dopamine: In a world where sites like Instagram and tik tok have turned people into gold fishes.
Visfit wishes to turn people into Sharks.
We reward progress. From exclusive offers for achievers. To group seniority for helpers. Visfit wishes to become synonymous with dopamine. Each second on the gym ground snow road trail earns you something. We as athletes know that better than anyone. Users earn coins for all their achievements as well as answering questions. Coins that can then be renewed for exclusive rewards from partners. Users also earn experience points for working out. This helps them contest for seniority in the global as well as group leaderboards.
Users are also provided experience points and coins for answering other users doubts effectively and efficiently. The user with most experience points is awarded the title of guild master in their guild.
⭐Seeking advice:
Despite visfit's primary model of matching up users on the same fitness level, users may seek advice from fellow guild mates and athletes. The effort taken to answer a question and help a fellow athlete out is generously awarded. There is a large amount of misinformation and baseless advice that's peddled in the fitness communities. Through our unique doubt solving model we aim at reducing the misinformation peddled taking into account the user's personal records as well as the scientific literature and response to the advice.
Self expression
⭐Guilds: Visfit brings together a group of likeminded individuals working towards a singular goal in form of a guild.
There are guild wars as well as global competitions where users compete to break each other’s records in their guild acitivity. The guilds each have a master elected based on both their fitness records as well as helpfulness to guild members. The guild master may change guild symbols joining requirements and is the one at the helm of guild wars. It is a one stop destination for communication advice and fun for all individuals involved in a particular sport.
⭐In workout conversation :
One of the primary barriers to entry into fitness is the lack of a companion to train with. Visfit helps people connect through calls hosted by the platform and enjoy the company of a fellow athlete. The athletes can be one's guild mates or a random athlete who speaks the same language and has similar interests. This not only reduces the burden on the beginners but also provides the opportunity to explore and foster new bonds. This also helps reduce the stress on the office workers and people in the later stages of their life as they have someone to connect with and talk to. Teenagers may use this for challenging each other and surpassing their limits as well as helping themselves stay on track.
⭐Seeking advice:
Despite visfit's primary model of matching up users on the same fitness level, users may seek advice from fellow guild mates and athletes. The effort taken to answer a question and help a fellow athlete out is generously awarded. This helps the veterans of sport put their knowledge and experience to good use and prevent beginners from making the mistakes they made. We wish to reduce the injuries and negative health consequences delving into fitness might have by giving a platform to the helpers and those who need help. There is a large amount of misinformation and baseless advice that's peddled in the fitness communities. Through our unique doubt solving model we aim at reducing the misinformation peddled taking into account the user's personal records as well as the scientific literature and response to the advice.
Security
It is often said that if you are not paying for the product You are the product
Not in this case you aren’t.
Visfit uses top of the line end to end encryption.
No one else including visfit is privy to your information.
Visfit puts a strong emphasis on user privacy.
⭐Even when we do have to suggest you sponsored recommendations based on your fitness trends, they are all alotted to a virtual id under a pseudonym that cannot be traced back to you.
⭐All fitness data and activities are locked in your device by default and encrypted by touch and Face ID.
⭐The conversation history used in suggestion algorithms through which we reccomend people to workout with are encrypted by a cryptographic key unique to every user. The data can only be accessed with the user's permission.
Future goals
⭐Introduce Ai based reccomendations for diet and exercise
Leveraging our position as the only social media app centered around fitness we will use machine learning to learn from our user's failures and successes. We will then combine this with meta analyses readily available on the web and cutting edge research in dietary and fitness science to give our users the best they can get. Hiring a coach or a dietician in the real world is often an economically draining task. Through our AI models and a large constantl updating data set we might be able to remove the need for them altogether.
⭐Integrate different methods of expression
In it’s nascent stages visfit will be restricted only to text and audio based communication. However further down the line we wish to move towards video ar and vr. This way anyone can enjoy the experience of working out anywhere from the comfort of their own home. Not only will this help reduce boredom and burn outs but also make the experience more fun for everyone.
⭐Integration with different fitness equipment
Visfit wishes to sync every fitness gadget it’s users might have with our app. Not only would this help us provide more accurate guidance to our users but also reduce the hassle of using a different app for each.
⭐Create an advanced algorithm based on sleep and fitness data from users.
Most of the fitness gadgets used in the modern times are heavily reliant on algorithms instead of hardware. With an advanced enough algorithm after learning from a large and diverse user base we could improve the sleep and fitness tracking on cheaper devices.
Problems we might face in the execution of this project
⭐Social stigma and addictive social media
A lot of people from my generation have a negative perception of fitness and body positivity. They consider aspiring for a better version of oneself "cringe" and egotistical. It is this stigma we as platform would need to try to remove. Modern social media has given rise to a plethora of self esteem issues and complexes among healthy individuals. Through trial and error we would need to figure out a way to integrate fitness into people's lives without having them obsessed with it.
⭐User base
A large set of users is necessary for the smooth operation of this platform. Visfit in its earlystages requires the support of a large enthusiast community that motivates and drives more people to use it. This will help us not only increase the quality of conversations that take place but also the usability of visfit as a platform. The platform first needs helpful seasoned veterans willing to go out of their way to help and encourage beginners. If Visfit manages to establish such a structure then the beginners would have one more reason to try out our platform.
⭐Extensive knowledge of algorithms and machine learning
In order for Visfit to succeed as a platform we need our recommendation algorithms to continuously evolve and become better to cope up with user demand. We need to segregate users into various groups based on their potential to grow have conversations on random topics and their susceptibility to peer pressure. If we are possible to this we might be able to not only reccomend users guilds and people based on their interests but also randomize the procedure in a manner that is not to the user's detriment.
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