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HRM App

Connect Apple Watch Heart Rate to Cycling Apps (ROUVY, TrainerRoad, Fulgaz, TrainerDay, and more)

I use the Apple Watch as a BLE heart rate monitor for all my indoor workouts. This doesn’t work out of the box but rather needs the HRM App to transmit heart rate via BLE. This article describes how you can do that too.

App Business

How To Validate Your App Idea (For Starters)

Before you invest all the time, energy, and money into building an app, you better make sure that your idea is worth pursuing. In this article, I'll explain a few tactics to make sure the odds of success are in your favor.

App Business Featured

How To Build an App

I know many of us seek to build an app, yet it may seem overwhelming to get there. I already did this a few times and crafted my own roadmap to design, build, market, and scale a mobile app. This article shares how.

Productivity

My Simple, Productive, and Rewarding To-Do List Routine

How much does your to-do list help you accomplish your goals? For me, significantly. I've tried many different types of to-do lists over the last few years, and I wrote this article to share the one that sticked for me.

Productivity

The Simplest Way to Create Email Templates in Apple Mail

I use templates for my most common emails and found my way around the limitations of Apple Mail to manage them. This has probably already saved me hours of my life over the last few years. In this post, I'll show you how.

HRM App

No ANT+ on Apple Watch to Broadcast Heart Rate? The HRM App Adds the Missing Link!

I wanted to have the ultimate Apple Watch® heart rate monitor to track heart rate for my cycling training – so I built the HRM Heart Rate Monitor App that does just that.

HRM App

HRM Heart Rate Monitor App User Guide

This guide shall provide everything you need to know to use the Apple Watch® and the iPhone® App to stream heart rate to a cycling head unit such as a Garmin Edge, Wahoo ELEMNT, or others.

HRM App

I Developed an App to Connect My Apple Watch to a Garmin, Wahoo, or Any Other BLE Bike Computer

The Apple Watch tracks heart rate very accurately and I’d love to replace my Garmin HRM chest strap with the heart rate reading from the watch, so I built the “HRM Heart Rate Monitor” to do just that. This is the story why I did it, how it came to be, and how I'm using the HRM app for my cycling.

HRM App

HRM Heart Rate Monitor App Terms of Use

Every app needs terms and conditions to balance the risk for both parties – the user and the developer. Mine contain nothing special, yet you must be aware that these apply when using the HRM app.

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HRM Heart Rate Monitor App Privacy Policy

Every app needs a privacy policy in order to disclaim how sensitive information is handled so that privacy is retained. The HRM app lays special focus on privacy, so no user can personally be identified.

Books

Every Business Book I Ever Read

For the past few years, I've read many books that I gained value from. I take notes, yet time lets me forget what was once valuable to me when reading it. This article is my personal antidote: A high-level overview containing my key summaries from each of these books.

MBA Studies

How To Incorporate The Future Into Your Strategy

The future is uncertain, yet we act in some way or another toward our expectations of what may happen. This article explores tools and strategies to make better predictions about the future – to reduce uncertainty – and to prepare for it.

MBA Studies

(Mega-)Trends and How To Manage Them

Trends inevitably happen in our world, be they man-made or not, and they may impact our business and ourselves. We can surrender to these waves or we can learn to recognize and swim them successfully. This article dives into megatrends and how to structure the trends that matter to you.

MBA Studies

Tools For Understanding Your Strategic Environment

Understanding your company's environment is crucial to formulate a well-thought-out strategy. In this article, we'll dive into two popular tools, namely Michael Porter's five forces framework and the PESTEL analysis, to guide us in doing so.

MBA Studies

The Need For Strategy In a Dynamic World

Having a clear strategy is now more important than ever. This article outlines the groundwork – most famously by Michael E. Porter – for strategy as thought in many MBA studies as well as a scientific framework to shape it.

MBA Studies

Mission-, Vision-, and Strategy Statements – What They Are and How To Craft Them

Many executives thrash about with mission- and vision statements. Unfortunately, most of those turn out to be a muddled stew of values, goals, purposes, philosophies, beliefs, aspirations, strategies, and descriptions. This article aims to clarify such statements and help you craft your own.

MBA Studies

Global Expansion and the CAGE Distance Framework

The CAGE Distance Framework offers a set of attributes to consider when evaluating the attractiveness of foreign markets. In this article, I'll explain the framework and provide some examples to apply it to a software product.

Management

How To Be Employed At Your Own Swiss Company

When founding your company, you become its first employee and likely want to pay yourself a salary. Doing so comes with legal duties and responsibilities, that I'll cover in this article with actionable tips and knowledge.

MBA Studies

Company Valuation: An Overview for Founders and Owners

As a founder, I was confronted with the need to estimate a company's or project's value many times already. This article aims to equip founders and owners with the knowledge and tools to do so competently.

Design

Good Design: A Practical Guide for Small Startups

Putting your users front and center is imperative to create valuable products in the long-run. The avid designer has many tools at disposal, yet only a few seem to use them successfully in small startups. This guide presents an easier, more pragmatic approach that has helped me a lot so far.