Pogo is a smart load management system designed to help climbers climb more without overtraining. Simply track your training to tune your algorithm and get custom training recommendations for volume and intensity to keep progressing while minimizing injury risk.
The main benefit is flagging overtraining before it happens, and seeing your progress with a beautiful dashboard tracking your sessions over time. The interaction is simple too—just log every climb, and it only takes 5 seconds.
I built this to meet the needs of the exploding climbing industry. Most climbers are entering at the hobbyist level, and I wanted to build something specifically for them. They care about one thing: climbing more without getting overtraining injuries—a huge problem with new hobbyists who get addicted.
Pogo recommends volume and intensity daily to keep climbers operating at a manageable workload to see steady progress and limit overtraining. I don't want to tell climbers what to do on the wall like standard goal-oriented programming. Instead, I give them guidelines to assist their progress without making it feel like dedicated "training," which can be intimidating.
My goal was to create something unique in the climbing industry that didn't exist and aimed to help the largest growing demographic of climbers. This tool is meant for hobbyists but caters to all levels of skill.
The algorithm I built uses my decade of climbing and coaching experience alongside proven scientific load management formulas to recommend effective training doses based on what climbers actually do in the gym—not what a plan expects them to do.
This smart adaptation meets the climber where they are in that moment, becoming an ultra-effective load management system for any level, in or out of shape. Whether you're crushing hard or recovering from an injury, Pogo adjusts to your reality.
I built this mainly using Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.5, Cursor, and Xcode. This app was completely vibe-coded using natural language only—no traditional coding required. I did the brand design in Midjourney. This project took a total of 200 hours start to finish.
I focused on bouldering only because it's going to be the top discipline in my mind due to the social aspect and non-need of a partner. The simplicity of walking up to a wall and climbing is unmatched.
The brand I picked is called POGO—a move we do in climbing that is meant to propel us upward using momentum. That's what my app hopes to do for newer and hobbyist climbers: give them upward momentum in their training.
POGO is also the name of the mascot, a yeti. A yeti represents the mountains, something hard to track (like bouldering progress), and an ever-present set of eyes watching you from a distance—just like load management. He is the algorithm, the coach, the spirit of climbing.