I built a MVP in 14 hours

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4 points·joaoaguiam··3 comments

>stay active, while injured

>use only your good leg

The app helps users work around the injury but I'd argue that it's generally wrong to seek ease or "Stay off it", "not put any weight on it", "limit the angles" as it risks a spiral of muscle atrophy and imbalance just like knee wraps do.

Of course the safety alignment of chatbots perfectly fit with the app's goals, they will gladly never advise you any possible immediate risk even if that means prolonging recovery times by a lot.

No one asked but my favorite introductory bodyweight exercises for meniscus tear recovery are inspired by @kneesovertoesguy: simulate SLED PUSHES by holding the roman rings in a prone position, BACKWARDS WALKING for a few tiny backward steps holding roman rings upright for resistance, and lots of short single-legged dips with foot on a wedge/decline. Perfect control of weight is possible at all angles.

It depends on the injury itself and what you are recovering. In my case I had a meniscus surgery so for 2-3 weeks I couldn't use much of that leg. But in the app you can detail your limitations and adjust it to your own case, it will adapt the exercises to your own inputs.

In this blog, I share the process of developing the EaseMyInjury project, utilizing NextJS, TailwindCSS, Firebase, Trigger.dev and OpenAI's ChatGPT4 on top of the ShipFast boilerplate. I also share my main takeaways to be able to ship MVP faster.

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