On Wednesday's call you said you want to get your own app going. This page makes it official.
One flat price, $4,200, for version 1 of the J Golf Fitness app: your programs, your videos, your name on the App Store and Google Play. We start now, build through December, and go live in January.
Nothing is charged today. When you accept at the bottom, the fee is added to your Nov 22 renewal, one payment of $6,700 instead of $2,500, and that's it.
Accept below and I'll text you this week to kick things off. -Dylan
Where we landed
Of the last 36 members who told Stripe why they cancelled, 13 said a version of the same thing: they couldn't figure out how to get into the app or how to use it. That's not a marketing problem. The welcome email makes people set a password before they ever see a workout, the questionnaire comes before the app does, and it can't even get names right. When I signed up as a test, it greeted me as "Dylansewell12."
And it costs you just as much on your side:
People email you because they can't get in. That's hours of your week spent propping up a tool you pay for.
We agreed the fix isn't another patch on Trainerize. It's your own app. As you put it: "I've known this for so long... the Trainerize app is such a problem." Members download the J Golf Fitness app, sign in once, and their program is just there. Your brand on their phone, your videos instead of stock trainers, and nobody stuck at a password screen. It also puts you where Fit For Golf already lives: on the app stores, collecting reviews under your own name.
What version 1 includes
- Sign-in tied to your billing. Stripe decides who gets in, automatically: new trials, members, and access that ends when a membership does. No Zaps, no password emails from you.
- Your current members included. Stripe members flow in on their own; Recharge members come in through a one-time import I maintain. Trainerize stays on until you're ready to turn it off.
- Your 10 programs and your exercise library, with the videos you're filming, streamed fast and visible only to members.
- Workout tracking. Members check off exercises, log their numbers, and pick up where they left off.
- Push notifications. Workout reminders, and a note from you when something new drops.
- iPhone and Android, submitted to both stores under J Golf Fitness accounts.
Not in version 1
In-app purchases (new members keep signing up through your website), in-app messaging and community, and your trainer dashboard. Those are the natural next steps after launch, inside your monthly plan.
Built in your name
Every account is yours: the store listings, the database, the video hosting. If we ever stopped working together, you'd keep all of it. Running costs are small and go on your card, paid straight to the providers, not to me: expect $25 to $50 a month, plus Apple's $99 a year and Google's one-time $25.
Timeline
Ranges, not promises to the day. The one thing that can move dates is Apple and Google's business verification, which is why the paperwork starts first.
| Stage | When | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| You accept | This week | I text you to kick off, and we start the Apple and Google paperwork. Their business checks take one to three weeks and gate everything else. |
| Design on your phone | Late November | You see the app early and we lock the look and flow together. |
| The build | December | Programs, tracking, and your videos as you film them. Test versions land on your phone as we go. |
| Store review | Late December | I submit to Apple and Google and handle their review. |
| Launch | January | Members get a simple switch-over email. Trainerize stays on until we're happy. |
Assumptions
- The clock starts at acceptance. Store verification is the one step on their timetable, not ours.
- You film the exercise videos during the build, the way you said you could, and each one goes into the library as it lands.
- New members keep joining through your website. The app itself sells nothing.
- Scope changes get quoted before they're built; small tweaks just happen.
- I send a progress update every week and respond same-day throughout. You'll never wonder where it stands.
The price, and how the payment works
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| Today | Nothing is charged. Accepting below adds the build fee to your plan's next renewal. |
| Nov 22 renewal | One payment of $6,700: your usual $2,500 month plus the $4,200 build, on your card on file. |
| Dec 22 onward | Back to your regular plan. December runs $2,500 to $3,500 depending on how much you want me on outside the app that month; we agree it together in mid-December. App revisions and polish are included either way. |
The 30-day warranty
For 30 days after launch, anything that breaks or doesn't do what this document says, I fix at no charge. I keep an eye on the system through that window.
The fine print, honestly
Apple reviews every app by hand, and apps where members pay on the website (the way Trainerize-built apps work) sometimes get extra questions. If Apple pushes back, handling the review and the workaround is my job. The only thing that can move is the launch date, never the price.
What I'll need from you
- Your exercise videos as you film them.
- About 30 minutes together to open the Apple and Google accounts in your name.
- One screen-share to pull your program details out of Trainerize.
