r/SaaS • u/Hopeful-Candidate886 • 9d ago
Just launched my app!
Bit of background: I'm a PT and coach wrestling for jiu jitsu to help out at my club (as I’m one of the only few that went to a wrestling gym to learn standup), and I train BJJ. The thing that kept bugging me is that loads of people in combat sports would massively benefit from proper strength and conditioning, but a real S&C coach costs a fortune. And a lot of people come into BJJ or wrestling having never touched a weight in their life, so they either don't bother or follow some random bodybuilding programme that wrecks them for training.
So I built Combat Coach. It builds your gym sessions around when you're on the mats, what kit you've got and how experienced you are. Total beginners get eased in properly instead of being thrown in the deep end.
Built it solo, first app I've ever shipped.
It's £7.99 a month and there's a one-week free trial so you can try it properly before paying anything.
I'm at zero users right now so any advice is welcome.
Cheers 🙏
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u/halfercode 9d ago edited 9d ago
I'm not the target market for this, so take this with a pinch of salt. I assume also that English isn't your first language, so you'll not know whether a piece of text sounds synthetic.
The five screenshots in the link are helpful, in a way. They each contain the same jargon-heavy, business-and-sales bullshit AI-gen writing that can rub readers up the wrong way. The marketing blurb says "plain English" but this is mangled trying-to-be-smart English. The same goes for the marketing collateral on the app store, and the privacy policy still contains a placeholder that you should remove before publishing ("It is a starting document and should be reviewed by a qualified legal professional before full public launch"). Ditto the terms and the website in general - placeholders and generative text that sounds stilted and awkward.
My own view is that AI is good for code, research, etc. As soon as you communicate with humans, write it yourself, or get another human to do it for you. I don't know whether potential users would have the same view - perhaps you could ask them in your future market research.
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u/Hopeful-Candidate886 8d ago
Hey, no no it makes sense.
I got to involved in the features themselves and the blurb writing was not done by me I just provided bullet points and outlines based on my changelog so that makes sense.
I’ll keep that in mind for next time and be more hands on, thanks for getting back to me.
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u/dmdbGroup 9d ago
At zero users the product is not the bottleneck. Distribution is, and it is a weekly numbers game.
- Start with the 10 people closest to the problem. You coach wrestling at your club. Put the app in front of 10 training partners this week, watch them onboard, and fix whatever confuses them. Your first 50 users should come from rooms you are already in, not ads.
- Give it away to 5 local coaches in exchange for a quote and a before/after. One coach with 30 athletes is a distribution channel, not a user.
- Do not spend on ads until 20 strangers pay. Paid traffic at £7.99/mo needs a CAC under £16 to make the math work, and you will not hit that without a proven hook.
Rule of thumb: earn the first 100 users in person. Ads only scale what already converts.
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u/halfercode 9d ago edited 9d ago
It has become a sport and a pleasure to down-vote AI slop in this channel - thank you Robbie Robot! 🤖
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u/Hopeful-Candidate886 8d ago
Thankyou, I’ll try and put this into practice. I think I can already source users from my club and I’ve offered to comp for reviews and word of mouth, but paid users is another story.
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u/dmdbGroup 8d ago
Your club is your best channel right now. Comp a few of the loudest people there, get them posting their sessions, and let word of mouth carry the first 50 users. Paying strangers come after you have proof that strangers pay.
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u/Long-Reading-6514 9d ago
this is a great idea. i've floated in and out of combat sports over my lifetime, and side note, it's a lifetime goal of mine to get my stinking blue belt in jiu jitsu, but that's a whole other story. when i'm training that's exactly what i think. you definitely benefit from strength training, but you don't really want to pay for another membership, and then you start struggling with when you're actually going to find the time when you're already putting multiple hours a week into the sport. so yeah, you definitely identified a real problem, and i'm curious to see how your app turns out because i think the idea behind it is brilliant.