FAQ
Questions, answered.
Rally is one shared goal, one team, one day at a time. Here's the longer version, in the order people actually ask.
The basics
What is Rally?
A team fitness tracker for the group chat. One team picks one goal each day. Everyone chips in. Tomorrow, someone else picks. Repeat until the group chat outlives you.
What happens on a typical day?
Today's dictator sets a goal (say: 300 pushups). Throughout the day, team-mates log what they did toward it. The total climbs. The leaderboard updates. When the team hits the number, Rally celebrates. When it doesn't, tomorrow shows up anyway.
Do I need an account to read this?
No. The FAQ is open. Everything else needs an account and a team, because Rally is the team. There isn't a solo mode.
Goals and the dictator
Who decides today's goal?
Today's dictator. The role rotates through the team in join order, one member per day. If it's your turn, Rally tells you so the moment you open the team home.
What if I'm the dictator and forget?
No goal, no logging. The day passes; tomorrow it's someone else's turn. No emails at 11:59pm. We trust the rota.
What's a rest day?
A deliberate "today we're not lifting". The dictator declares it and nobody logs. Rest days are final - no take-backs, no revisions. Pick your day carefully.
Can the dictator change the goal after people have started logging?
Yes, right up until a rest day is declared. Existing logs stay; they're just measured against the new target. Use it sparingly - your team-mates will read your edit history.
What goal types are there?
Reps, minutes, steps, or a custom unit you name yourself. The dictator supplies the noun ("pushups", "burpees", "press-ups", "snake oil"). Whatever the chat will rally around.
Logging
How do I log?
Type a number on the team home and hit log. That's the whole flow. The total updates for everyone within a few seconds.
Can I log for someone else?
No. Only you can log for you. Honour system, with a side of "your team will absolutely call you out".
Can I undo a log?
Yes - your own logs, while one is your most recent entry. Once someone else logs after you, that one is in the history books. The undo button only shows up when it can actually do something.
Does logging twice double-count?
No double-counting - each log is a separate row that adds to the total. Undo deletes one row at a time, newest first.
Toughness
What's toughness?
A personal 1-to-5 multiplier. It tells Rally how hard you want today's goal to feel for you. Higher number, harder day - each rep you log contributes a fraction toward the team total.
You're rallying with team-mates who have different fitness levels and lives. Toughness is how you stay in the same game without pretending you're all the same.
Why does my toughness lock once I've logged?
So nobody can crank toughness down after the fact and have past logs re-score themselves. Undo every log today and toughness unlocks again for the rest of the day.
Where do I set it?
Team page - "your toughness" line. Or jump to it from the log form on the team home.
Teams
How do I create a team?
From the account menu in the header, hit "Create new team". Pick a name, get an invite link, send it to the group chat.
How do I join one?
Open the invite link a team-mate sent you. It looks like
/join/<token>/. Tokens rotate when someone on
the team rotates them, so an old link can go cold without
warning - ask for a fresh one.
Can I be in more than one team?
Yes. Stack as many group chats as you can keep up with. The team switcher lives at the top of the header.
How do I leave a team?
Team settings, then leave. Your past contributions stay attributed to you - the history is the history.
Who can rename, kick, or delete?
Any team member can. Rally treats your team as a trust group, not a corporate hierarchy. Don't add someone who'd nuke the team for laughs.
Notifications and chants
What will Rally send me?
Six event kinds: today's goal is set, the goal changed, the team hit the goal, a new member joined, you're today's dictator, and a rest day was declared. That's the lot.
Can I turn them off?
Yes, per kind, in notification settings. Mute the noisy ones, keep the ones you care about. We don't have a "send everything" and we don't have an "off switch with consequences" - just toggles.
Push notifications - how?
Opt-in, via your browser's Web Push. When you turn it on, your phone or laptop pings you the same way any other site would. Turn it back off any time from notification settings.
What are the chants on the team page?
Short voice lines that change based on how the team's been behaving. They lean in when you're active, go quiet when you've been quiet, and welcome you back when you return. They are not motivational platitudes. They are written by people who'd be embarrassed to ship motivational platitudes.
Your account
How do I log in?
Email, magic link. Type your address, we send a one-time link, you click it, you're in. No passwords. No "forgot password" flow because there is nothing to forget.
The link didn't arrive.
Check spam. If it's not there, ask for another - links are single-use and expire fast on purpose. Some corporate mail servers chew through them; a personal address is happier.
How do I change my display name?
From the team page. It's per-team, so you can be "Sam" in one team and "Captain" in another. (Yes, people do this.)
How do I delete my account?
Email us. We don't have a self-serve button yet - the population is small enough that hand-deleting is faster than building the screen.
When things look off
Rally doesn't have failure states. It has knowing nudges.
The page didn't update.
Refresh. The total polls every five seconds; the rest of the page updates on action. If a refresh doesn't fix it, the internet probably broke - try again in a minute.
My undo button vanished.
Someone logged after you. By design, only your most recent contribution is undoable - we don't let you rewrite older history while team-mates are mid-rally.
Why does my share read 75 when someone else's reads 25?
Each member's share of the team target is weighted by their toughness multiplier. A teammate at x3 carries three times the baseline slice; shares always sum to the team target. Every rep you log counts 1:1 toward the team total - the share just sizes your part of it.
I can't set today's goal.
You're probably not today's dictator. Check the team strip on the home page - it says whose turn it is.