This Feature Will Save Us

Some product bets fail because the idea was wrong. Some get a lot messier because the world around it changed. Gabriela Cordero joins Marco and Jonas to talk about building health and fitness products where that kind of thing happens. One launch had the product, the inventory, and the plan. Then COVID hit, gyms closed, and the team had to work through what happens when a hardware product is ready,...

Nolan Parker’s product perspective was shaped long before he had a product title. As a former gym owner, CrossFit coach, and trainer, he understands the day-to-day reality of the people using fitness software: busy operators, time-strapped coaches, overwhelmed staff, and members who do not care how complicated the system is behind the scenes. Now, as a product leader at PushPress, he is building f...

Alex from Leisure Labs joins Marco and Jonas for the first episode of This Feature Will Save Us. They talk about a feature from the Netpulse days called X-Capture, which let gym members take a photo of a cardio machine console and log the workout from the image. At the time, it solved a messy problem: fitness operators wanted connected equipment, but connecting every machine directly was a headach...

Every product team has that moment. Someone pitches a feature and says, "This is the one." Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they are very wrong. Marco Benitez and Jonas Dücker talk to the people actually building products in health, fitness, and wearable tech. The ones making hard calls with messy data, shifting priorities, and stakeholder pressure that never really lets up. They...