TimeTil's answer

Anyone managing scheduled events for an audience, for example: event managers, tour guide hosts, streamers, gym class teachers, shift managers, etc. It can also be great for personal use to keep yourself on track.

RepDB's answer:

Solo developers and small teams building fitness or workout-tracking apps (iOS, Android, web) who need licensed exercise images and structured exercise data, but don't want to build their own media pipeline or depend on a rate-limited third-party API.

TimeTil's answer

The idea came up after seeing a software request on Reddit and I thought it sounded like a great idea that had a lot of use cases!

RepDB's answer:

RepDB grew out of a consumer workout app its creator was building solo. Sourcing exercise images and data meant either paying for a subscription API with usage caps and no caching rights, or producing everything from scratch. The illustrated, multi-language dataset was built for us first, then split out as its own product once it became clear other indie developers had the same problem and preferred to buy the data outright rather than rent it through an API.

TimeTil's answer

Javascript! Specifically Eleventy, Nunjucks, and Vue with Netlify functions.

TimeTil's answer

Compared to most countdown timers, TimeTil allows you to set up a series of events that happen back-to-back. Instead of just counting down to one big moment, it counts down a series of scheduled events one after another.

RepDB's answer:

RepDB is sold as a one-time download, not a metered API — you own the JSON/SQLite data and WebP images outright, with no rate limits, no per-request billing, and no risk of the vendor cutting off access. It's also the only dataset in this space with EN/DE/ES translations, transparent (alpha-channel) images with no watermark, muscle-group highlighting, safety/goal tags, and looping animations on the higher tier.

TimeTil's answer

TimeTil offers a free and simple setup with a clean minimal UI that can be customized and displayed anywhere for any kind of event.

RepDB's answer:

Most alternatives are subscription APIs — you pay monthly, you're capped on requests, and ExerciseDB's terms of use explicitly forbid caching or storing the data at all, so every image render is a live paid API call. RepDB is the opposite: pay once, download the files, self-host with zero ongoing dependency. It's also the only option offering true DE/ES localization and transparent images instead of a white box behind every exercise.