🚀 RELEASE NOTES 📝

Here you will find a high level list of everything we released to RYSE during the week. This weekly list will include all new features, improvements, and bug fixes that we accomplished during the week.

Thank you RYSE fam for the support as Bryan and I build RYSE each day! ❤️

Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 7 - Nov 21, 2024

  • Create email account page and external update request form

  • Fix send workout to user search for username change people

  • Add session replay

  • Update persona workouts

  • Capacitor web updates

  • Add weekly report notification

  • Standalone event bus and Pinpoint and initial icon

  • Fix share to Instagram stories

  • Hide internal snackbar notification on iOS for Capacitor

  • Weekly report share

  • Ignore click to close when keyboard open

  • Sync keyboard

  • Reduce bug fix and add empty state message

  • Weekly comparison

  • More auth fixes

  • Try fix login issue

  • Add simple gym log deploy

  • Turn on send workout to user button

  • Search enabled for preferred usernames

  • Add table for user share link

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 17 - Sep 12, 2024

Start workout from notification

  • Backend for share workout

  • Allow nulls in AI

  • Update dependencies

  • Retry on token errors

  • Small performance improvements

  • Fix Safari visibility issue with dialog routes

  • Temporary private profile feature

  • Display rest time

  • Temporary fix for showing community workouts

  • Add male hypertrophy persona

  • Add female hypertrophy persona

  • Workout complete screen styling fixes

  • Add female hypertrophy/strength persona

  • Add exercises

  • Add personas for days 1-7 (male, hypertrophy + strength)

  • Add first persona for routines

  • Adjust daily item drawer height

  • Try to fix .end undefined bug

  • Library upgrades (9-15-24)

  • Fix FCM/GCM deprecation

  • Try to fix notifications on Android

  • Add Spotify to social links on profile

  • Return null if not weight/reps

  • Add vanity metrics

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Aug 30 - Sep 12, 2024

  • Add back all exercise metrics

  • Fix undefined check and spelling

  • Add exercises

  • Revert "Revert 'Revert all exercise metrics selector'"

  • Revert "Revert 'all exercise metrics selector'"

  • Fallback to auth store if can't get from Cognito

  • Share charts dialog

  • Try to fix some auth issues

  • Add exercise videos

  • Remove toSorted

  • Revert "all exercise metrics selector"

  • All exercise metrics selector

  • Optimize some looping that iterates over all workouts/exercises

  • Add exercise videos

  • Move createOnboardingWorkoutPlanForUser and update todos

  • Add lifting days per week and workout duration to Postgres

  • Add days per week and typical workout duration to onboarding/user details

  • Add streak repair to profile

  • Bounce for swipeable discovery for routines list

  • Fix syncing streak

  • Update Prisma schema to include week streak on profile

  • Add streak to profile

  • Initial generate workout plan script

  • Streak repair automated push

  • Library upgrades (8-30-24)

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Aug 15 - Aug 29, 2024

  • Update logic on streak repair

  • Auto streak repair

  • Update app icons

  • Add exercise videos

  • Streak repair before/after display

  • Streak repair detection/UI

  • Add streak repair to Postgres

  • Remove isTesting

  • Testable streak repair

  • Complete goal summary share card

  • Streak repair v1 - manual fix

  • Use useMemo on logged workouts date range hooks

  • Create routine, drafts, archived

  • Workout routines page/list

  • Add exercise videos

  • Add Knip to find unused files/dependencies

  • App menu and FAB

  • Add exercise videos

  • Library upgrades

  • Show drafts in recents

  • Fix table name for resolvers

  • Share more stuff

  • Add slide to new app

  • Better log exercise drawer transitions

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Aug 7 - Aug 14, 2024

  • Display no public posts in users list detailed

  • Add exercise videos

  • Share workout streak code

  • Sync aggregates

  • Start of standalone logging

  • Add exercise videos

  • Remove some packages

  • Move shared item stuff

  • Move shared workout stuff

  • Share HTML2Image

  • Share routine stuff

  • Add exercise videos

  • Add sign out to sign in screen in case user gets stuck

  • Fix deleted comment display

  • Library upgrades (8-11-24)

  • Exercises shared

  • Move deep links

  • Add exercises and fix straps instructions

  • Move exercise stuff

  • Dedupe getCurrentUser and fetchAuthSession

  • Merge image-utils/file-utils

  • Add exercise videos

  • No wait user attributes

  • Share icons and some root level state

  • Move rest timer state

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

July 28 - Aug 7, 2024

Remove some unused code

  • Fix network error check and move shared packages

  • Fix public user attributes

  • Shared stacked routes package

  • Add year to data on charts

  • Shared routing

  • Update Ryse Boosted CTA

  • Always fetch all milestones

  • Try to fix null contains

  • Add myo reps to Postgres

  • Add myo reps

  • Upgrade UUID

  • Upgrade React 18.3

  • Library upgrades (7-31-24)

  • Revert "Revert upgrade eslint to v9"

  • Revert "Upgrade eslint to v9"

  • Upgrade eslint to v9

  • Share user/user items states

  • Use sub for userId in standalone

  • Pass in table name to Dynamo calls

  • Library upgrades (7-28-24)

  • Node 20 for lambdas with layers

  • Upgrade to Node 20 for most lambdas

  • Handle register device not found

  • Upgrade Amplify libraries, remove GraphQL subscriptions

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

July 2 - July 26, 2024

Remove updating Pinpoint from client

  • Test register device functionality

  • Add register device resolver

  • Library upgrades (7-25-24)

  • Extract some theme-related functionality

  • Update auth

  • Move HOCs

  • Remove workout plan complete items

  • Remove Jest

  • Remove create plan pages

  • Standalone app shell and shared packages

  • Set browser theme color

  • AppSync stack

  • Dynamo, Cognito, and AppSync infrastructure

  • Start of standalone app infrastructure

  • Rename folders

  • Restructure packages

  • Android local notifications show toast

  • Fix sync timestamp

  • Plugin updates

  • Cordova 13 and local notification updates for Android

  • Request permissions for Android

  • Android local notifications updates

  • Android scheduled notifications

  • Add schedule exact plugin for testing

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Feb 1-19, 2023

  • feat: RYSE Boosted memberships

  • chore: library upgrades

  • detect: cancels and store transaction data

  • Complete: workout birthday easter egg

  • fix: only sync if purchase status is success

  • add: manage subscriptions icon and link to store

  • feat: RYSE Boosted behind isDeveloper

  • membership: drawer and turn on for app tester

  • start: of membership card and drawers

  • Valentine's Day: badge 2023

  • feat: Valentine's Day heart confetti

  • combine: top menu list

  • feat: members only page with emoji status

  • different: auto-follow list for older users

  • add: deadhang

  • scaffold: membership display and drawer

  • start: of subscriptions

  • fix: preferred username for grouped notifications

  • enhancement: rest timer display minutes/hrs with colons

  • feat: start history from in-app purchase

  • improvement: delete confirmation

  • fix: RyseOfficial item in feed when feed isn't chronological

  • feat: add rest timer button to exercises

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023

🎉 New Features

  • The highly requested Rest Timer is LIVE!!

    • You can now use a built in “stopwatch” while logging your workouts

    • Use as a Rest Timer or to time your exercises like planks or wall sits

  • Change Username feature!

    • Get your RYSE username before the username real estate market gets HOTTT

  • Obscure Bangers playlist added to the Weekly mix

    • Available on the RYSE Spotify profile or from the weekly @ryseofficial post or profile

    • We take the songs that aren’t quite as guaranteed banger-ish and put them in their own playlist

    • Useful if you want to get an artist’s name out there or if you just know of a super, non-mainstream banger that you wish everyone on RYSE could know about

🛠 Improvements

  • Upgraded to Android 31, received a few user reports of app crashing, fixed and released a new version within a few hours (thanks @theaznsensation and @jesse)

  • Fix post tags so they show properly when shared (@rig)

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Jan 9 - Jan 22, 2023

🎉 New Features

  • Milestones are now automatically tagged on Posts!

    • Congratulate others on achieving milestones

    • Tap milestone to open a drawer to see who else has completed that milestone

    • More to come here in the future!

  • RYSE Lifting Straps

    • We now sell RYSE Liftings Straps in the Merch store

    • All straps come with a QR code to scan and “Equip” your RYSE user with a pair of straps on your profile

    • The straps can be applied to the exercises you use them on while you are logging

    • They will accumulate stats, so you can see just how much you use your straps over time

🛠 Improvements

  • Redesigned swipe to “share” screens

  • UNDO button when you accidentally select “Recovery” while logging to get back to a normal workout (@jessylynnjo)

  • Add “Now” button to date/time of workout while logging to make it easier for those who preload workouts and log them the next day (@seanmontana)

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Jan 1 - Jan 8, 2023

🎉 New Features

  • Achievements!!

    • The first RYSE Achievements were released

    • Look for super cool and trendy achievement badges on your Profile when you complete challenges and hit other milestones

    • See how many achievements you have and see others’ achievements as well

  • January Challenge

    • Log 15 workouts or recovery days in January and receive an Achievement on your Profile

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Dec 19 - Dec 31, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Remove Summary tab from Profile, move Highlights to be Pinned at the top of Posts grid, and adjust the middle section to make room for Achievements, Milestones, and more!!

  • Show “Form Feedback” feed if you have > 75 posts

🛠 Improvements

  • Show alert of profiles if the account where the account was deleted

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Send or Scan workout links with friends while logging!

    • If you are in the middle of logging a workout or pre-filled one out and want to share it with a friend, you can now send them a link that will open a new workout directly in RYSE or you can have them scan a QR code on your phone to auto-populate exercises and optionally include or exclude the weights

  • 12 days of Liftmas Challenge

    • Log 12 workouts (or recoveries) from Dec 12 - Dec 31

    • Earn a sweet badge on your profile to let everyone know that gains are earned not gifted!

    • On Jan 1st, 3 winners will be randomly selected to receive the first ever RYSE lifting

      straps!!!!

  • Dynamic notifications in Activity feed

    • Allows for one time push notifications from backend to persist somewhere for the user to re-engage with

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • RYSE 2022 #gymWrapped!!

    • ~2-3 minute personalized video similar to Spotify wrapped with all of your lifting stats for the year!

    • Reveal your #1 exercise, best lifts, weight lifted, and so much more.

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Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE Jessica Wood - Cofounder of RYSE

Nov 14 - Nov 30, 2022

We are focused on building our 2nd annual Spotify Wrapped for the Gym!!! Will post more updates after the launch on Monday Dec 4, 2022 💪

To keep up with the build behind the scenes, checkout my tiktok

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Nov 7 - Nov 13, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • RYSE Merch!

    • After receiving a lot of requests for RYSE merch and requests for how to help support RYSE, we launched RYSE Merch Season 1! Find the link at the top of your Home page or on the Discover page

  • Reminder Notifications!

    • “Forgot to Post” - After 255 (we counted) “Forgot to post” messages, we added a little reminder 2 hrs after you stop logging and haven’t posted 😉

    • Streak reminders - if you haven’t logged a workout or recovery by Friday, the app will notify you so you don’t lose your streaks!

    • Monthly Recap - the app will now send you a notification when your Monthly Recap is ready to view!

🪳Bug Fixes

  • Fixed “Duration” exercises displaying as reps on charts (thanks @a1)

  • Fixed “Workout not found” message that appears if your app reloads after being in the background and you haven’t logged anything yet

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 31 - Nov 6, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Push Notification Deep linking - update your app in the App Store!

    • tapping on a notification will now open directly to the Post / Comment / Profile that the notification is about

    • Comments and being tagged in a post will now show some of the comment/post text in the notification

🛠 Improvements

  • Akatsuki themed October Recap

  • Share screens now produce images with a more standard height / width depending if it’s vertical, horizontal, or square so it can be more easily shared to more platforms

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Beta Feature - Send Workout and Scan workout QR code

    • consolidate Send and Scan workouts while logging into one drawer (similar to Venmo’s Scan/Send payment)

    • integrated QR code scanner within the app (can still use phone camera as backup)

🛠 Improvements

  • Improve push notification receiving while app is in foreground on both Android and iOS

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Deep Linking on iOS and Android is live!  Make sure you are on the latest version of RYSE from the App Store!

    • Share a routine link with your workout buddies, so they can just click it and “start workout” without having to find the routine

    • Share a link to anyone’s post so you can directly land on the post and shower them with boosts and praise

    • When you “copy” and share a link (Profile, Post, Routine, etc), that link will take the user directly to that page in RYSE if they have RYSE installed on their phone.  If not, the link will still open in a browser and behave as it did previously

🛠 Improvements

  • Fixed sorting on dashboard where if you just completed a workout that would show up first on graph instead of last - thanks @fira !

  • Show username letter if no profile picture

  • Speed up rendering of Share screens

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Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE Bryan Hunter - Cofounder of RYSE

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022

🎉 New Features

  • Ability to link a YouTube video on Create Exercise

    • The video will display under the “Details” tab while logging

    • Helpful for showing how to perform a lift

    • If someone else uses your custom exercise, they will also see the YouTube video

  • Added “What’s New?” link to Discover page to make it easier to see RYSE updates

  • PR tags while logging!

    • Added indicator to set PRs to show previous, new, and percent change - based on suggestion from @edgyveggie

    • Shown while you are logging so you can be surprised at how strong you've gotten in the moment

  • BETA Feature - “Send Workout” deep linking

    • Toggle it on in the menu on your profile

    • You will see a “Send Workout” button on your workout logging screen

    • Use this to send workouts to your friends and it will open RYSE directly to a new workout where they can start logging immediately with the same exercises and sets

🛠 Improvements

  • Improved exercise search!

    • Results are sorted better by relevance and misspelling is way more forgiving - ie: “bnch” will return results as if you had typed in “bench”

  • Replace Exercise will pre-fill the search box with the exercise that you are replacing, so you will have more relevant results immediately (ie: replacing “hip thrust (barbell)” with “hip thrust (machine)” should be super quick and easy now)

  • Share screens should be faster and not freeze as much

  • Preview workout always visible during logging @edgyveggie

  • Fixed set type color for “cluster” to be more colorblind friendly - thanks to @colorblindguy for helping us validate

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