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This Feature Will Save Us
This Feature Will Save Us is the podcast for product leaders building the future of health, fitness, and wearable technology.
Hosted by Marco Benitez and Jonas Dücker of ROOK, each episode goes inside the roadmap decisions behind the apps, platforms, and biometric systems shaping the next generation of health products.
Built for CPOs, CTOs, and the teams shipping real health tech.
Episodes
8 episodes
Jason David - The Gym Owner Is Never the Problem
Jason spent years running a CrossFit gym before he started building Gym Force.That experience gave him a pretty specific view of what wasn't working. He'd used gym management software, marketing tools and outside business support, but h...
Dave Hannum - Stop Building Features Just Because You Can
Dave Hannum has spent more than 30 years building products in the fitness industry. He led product and business development at Technogym before founding Functional Solutions, one of the early platforms for connected fitness and digital coaching...
Brian Shoemaker - What Life Time's 190 Clubs Taught Him About Killing Features
Brian Shoemaker started as a developer before he ever had a product title, and ten years later he's running Life Time Labs and the company's new Innovation Hub.His background shows up in how he talks about product decisions: less about ...
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Ernst de Neef - Why Funxtion Walked Away From Its Own AI Workout Builder
Ernst de Neef, CEO and co-founder of Funxtion, joins Marco and Jonas to talk about building digital products for large fitness operators.After more than a decade in the industry, Ernst has seen what happens when customers want flexibili...
Gabriela Cordero - When the Roadmap Came With Inventory
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 happ...
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Nolan Parker - The Product Leader Who Still Coaches CrossFit
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-strapp...
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When the Workaround Is the Product | Alex Peacock
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 th...
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