
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.
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 flexibility, product teams want simplicity, and the roadmap is expected ...
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 happens. One launch had the product, the inventory, and the plan. Then COV...
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-strapped coaches, overwhelmed staff, and members who do not care how ...
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 the workout from the image. At the time, it solved a messy proble...
Every product team has that moment. Someone pitches a feature and says, "This is the one." Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they are very wrong. Marco Benitez and Jonas Dücker talk to the people actually building products in health, fitness, and wearable tech. The ones making hard calls with messy...