I recently joined a new gym. It’s a pretty good gym, with nice equipment, nice management, nice branding.

Now, it’s not some random shitty vibe-coded app. It’s actually pretty good as a product. It has pretty slick UI/UX and a well-thought-out, consistent design language. I found only one bug in it.

For me, though, the only use case is to show a QR code at the turnstile for checking in and out.

However, there is a problem. The home screen of the app is a social feed. Once you check out, it prompts you to post a story of your session. The home feed is full of people’s gym selfies. Every time I open the app, I’m forced to see something that essentially looks like Tinder.