Official App Feedback Thread For Saturday Users [Saturday: Pro Fuel & Hydration]

Triathlon Forum
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Saturday is now live in app stores. We’re getting synced with TrainingPeaks as we speak. Massive thanks to everyone here and all our early users.

**You can download the app on the iOS ****App Store or get it on **Google Play.

Saturday is a fuel & hydration planning and coaching app. It outputs fully automated, fully personalized product-agnostic plans for every race, event, and training session. Use brands you know and just learn how much you actually need, or you can optimize with a pinch of salt or go full-scale DIY. Saturday is like a coach that provides product-agnostic performance nutrition. It will build a fueling plan for your next triathlon, gravel epic, and your whole training schedule.

For daily use, and often even big events, it does better (and WAY faster) than I can do as a coach now. I have offloaded 90% of my coaching clients to just use the app. So has Michelle (coach, pro triathlete, RD CSSD, wife). Short of coming to your kitchen and making your bottles for you, it does it all. It’s like the best of personalization and cost-savings from DIY nutrition and fueling, but more like “we do it for you.” We’re building out more features that really spell things out simply to make everyone’s lives easier, as we speak. Quite literally, we couldn’t do it without you all.

It’s $2.99/mo (forever) for all our early adopters (still available) but we’ll probably increase to $5.99 in the next few weeks.

Your feedback and presence here with us is huge. Thank you for your support. It truly means the world to Michelle and I, and our growing team.

Below kept for historicity: from beta tester related post in January 2023
TLDR: Sign up here. We’ll reach out next week.
Saturday is a fuel & hydration app.
Or look for the orange button on saturdaymorning.fit.
Our goal: Elite fuel & hydration from the cupboard through the finish line.

So far:

My beloved tech-avoidant wife uses it and hates training without it.
Lots of big race PR’s and “A” races fueled.
Big quality of life improvement impact for quite a few users who have previously been really frustrated or confused with fueling & hydrating. This has been surprising, even for us as founders, and has provided all the motivation we need to keep pushing this forward. Very humbling.Coaches if you’re interested in getting your clients/teams on it, DM me.
If you’re still reading…here are the things we think need to happen for the app to do what we hope, at scale.

Don’t be another “tech” thing. No headaches allowed. Make life simpler.Keep the unnecessary details to the forums. (See “How do I make Maurten” thread Fueling is a PITA, especially when you’re new. Here’s three more if you love reading, here, here, & here.) Attend to the whole user.Avoid unnecessary tracking and testing.PS. Thanks to Dan, Ryan, & Eric for allowing me to post this here. Edit as you see fit.

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Very cool

Signed up

Thank you
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I signed up some time ago (or rather, you had to do it manually), but I haven’t heard anything after that.

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Signed up
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Some advice - I’d provide an explanation somewhere on the site or here about what makes you different and how that helps the athlete.

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  1. what does the app do?
  2. what do you expect beta testers to do?

Thanks!

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I also signed up earlier but did not receive anything. Would love to be a part of the project.

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I signed up some time ago (or rather, you had to do it manually), but I haven’t heard anything after that.

I’ll email you next week at the latest… Thank you for signing up.

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Some advice - I’d provide an explanation somewhere on the site or here about what makes you different and how that helps the athlete.
Will do! Serious website build-out coming very soon.

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I also signed up earlier but did not receive anything. Would love to be a part of the project.

We’ve been holding out getting the app in folks hands until I could polish it up a bit. Wanted to save some fresh eyes for the new roll-out. Very much appreciate your patience and interest.

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Sounds great, thanks Dr. Alex!

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  1. what does the app do?The app writes workout and race fueling plans for you.

Sports that it covers:

Triathlon
Cycling
Running
Swimming
Rowing
XC Skiing

It uses the products you like, selected from our hand-curated library. And you can add and save your own too. It also recommends the addition of sugar and/or salt or sodium citrate, which indeed are optimal additions to 90% of folks’ mixes.

  1. what do you expect beta testers to do?
    Thanks! Use the app. Complain when they don’t like it. Try to hurt my feelings with harsh criticism.

I bet we’ll share opinions on most things, because I also want it to do what 99.9% of users want it to do. And it will. In the future.

My development team tries hard to keep up with Michelle and my demands.

So far, Michelle and I are winning. If you know a developer interested in hearing about us, send them here.

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Signed upThank you. Glad to have you.

To all who signed up,

Thank you. It’s truly humbling to see your interest.

If you’re doing a tri, or back-to-back workout soon - like a brick - I’d love to have your feedback on the tri &/or brick features pre-launch.

Finally, we may cap at 500 testers. Today put us over 400. If you know someone who would be *exceptionally *interested, please have them sign up asap.

Thanks again.

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signed up!

willing to try it!

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Brilliant! Signed up and hoping to get on the feelings hurting train!

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Brilliant! Signed up and hoping to get on the feelings hurting train!
Love it.

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Tagged in on the Google form. If you haven’t already topped off.

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Is this separate from the Fuel app project? If so, and if I was apart of that, am I “moved over” to this one automatically, or do I need to re-register. Thank you sir!!!

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I intended for this to be a short reply, but, alas…

Old app vs. new app:
Yes, they’re the same project, but the new app has been totally revamped, inside and out, and some of it requires us to have *everyone *go download a totally new app. The old app will be discontinued and unusable. We’re pretty sure it will be worth it, but we’ll let everyone else be the judge! Thank you for putting up with the inconvenience. It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, we promise never to do a crazy thing like forcing people to redownload an app, once we’re fully live in app stores! This is a one-time thing, and I can’t thank you enough for being part of this with us.

When you’ll be contacted:
If you accessed the app but never filled out the beta sign-up form, you’ll get an email next week notifying you of how to make the move to the new app.If you did sign up through the beta sign-up form, at some point in the past (or do now), then you’ll probably get an email today or tomorrow with a detailed update. (*and *one next week with same “how to move” message as the first bullet, immediately above).
App availability, what to expect:
For all users, new and old, the new app: Saturday: Pro Fuel & Hydration, is rolling out a final-public-beta-launch next week between Jan 23 and Feb 2. This is the aforementioned one-time "redownload."We’ll smash bugs and make minor tweaks/fixes from then until full public launch. We hope all our beta users will complain a lot so that we can catch them all before going fully live. :)We launch fully to app stores around Valentines day.

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FYI Dr. and anyone waiting on news, the first email went to my junk folder.