Swings for Swoll - Like baseball? Here's my iOS app that tells you how much to workout based on how your favorite MLB team does

[seubjoh]

It started with my buddy and I doing push-ups every time the Mariners scored (we didn’t get very strong) and I decided to make a full blown iOS app as a side project. Basically, you pick your team, an exercise, and an intensity and the app tells you how much exercise to do based on how many runs your team scores. It keeps track of it all season so you can workout with the team. Let me know what you all think/if there’s anything you would want to see with next season.

Link to app on app store (Swings for Swoll): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swings-for-swoll/id1277377749

For anyone interested in the tech, MLBAM has all live game data pretty easily accessible online in constantly updating JSON files so it was fairly easy (and fun) to make an MLB At Bat Lite app. I pulled up previous game day date by scraping from Baseball Reference. For my next project, I want to build a sort of “Build your own experience” baseball app that pulls in stats/data across all sorts of sites so I don’t have to be flipping between Fangraphs, LookoutLanding, and MLB.com all day when I’m watching a game. The entire app is all open source too if anyone wants to check it out.

I am not making any money off of this or trying to get people to use the site for personal gain, it’s purely a side project I did that just got a little more ambitious than originally anticipated (as these things tend to do).

Thanks for looking!

[seubjoh]

Couldn’t add multiple links but here is some additional info:

Here’s a link to the data for today’s games on MLBAM for example:(http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2017/month_09/day_02/master_scoreboard.json).

The entire app is all open source too if anyone wants to check it out: https://github.com/jseubert/SwingsForSwole

[liamnichols]

Nice little side project you have here, It’s always interesting learning about how people come up with app ideas sometimes

Maybe if you get a chance, attach some screenshots to the original post as it makes it easier to get people viewing the topic interested

Feel free to ask any technical questions you may have in the future in the forums! Good luck with the project

[seubjoh]

Thanks for reply! Here are some screenshots

[seubjoh]