1 Year Old Today

Bearly Fit is 1 year old today!

Bearly Fit started to help me with my own health. An app that would let me monitor my exercise, nutrition and body in one place, whilst still owning 100% of my data.

Last year, after months of building, I finally released and I was absolutely blown away by the response.

Hundreds of people downloaded, shared feedback, joined the community and even became paid subscribers.

And I've been riding that excitement ever since.

In the spirit of building in public, I wanted to share my outcomes.

From a developer perspective:

• ~70 feature requests
• ~30 bug reports
• 8 releases (1 pending)
• ~2k hours
• 136k lines of code
• 1.3k commits
• 1,534 files changed, +100,403 / -24,275

That's just for the app.

Most of the code is manually written - AI has mostly only been used for refactoring work and tests.

From the business side:

For the first year, I just focused on building. I thought by not investing in marketing or advertising, it would give me and others a good baseline for what to expect.

So here's what that looks like:

• 2k downloads
• 400 active users
• $900 in revenue
• 4.8* and 54 reviews across both stores
• 182 on Discord
• 2,200 followers across platforms

This is with the caveat that I have 25k followers, and people (for reasons unknown to me) actively want to see me succeed. So even though this is a good baseline, it's still maybe a little inflated.

What's next?

My goal this year is to get the remaining features in place - better nutrition logging, wearable integrations, developer features, social features, and a web based deep analysis tool.

But I'm also going to start to slowly ramp up both marketing and advertising. I'm excited to see how that impacts growth.

I hope you've enjoyed reading this, and I wanted to say thank you again to everyone that's been part of this journey.

I'm excited to see where we will be for our 2nd Birthday!