The RepEight journey

I was in my university city alone. All my friends had gone back home for the summer, and I stayed because I had a full-time job. The city felt quieter. Emptier. My evenings and weekends were mine.

I went to the gym a lot. I tried every fitness app I could find, but each one was missing something. Personality. The things I actually wanted. Nothing felt right.

So I started building RepEight. I had no clue how to even start building an app. No roadmap, no mentor, no prior experience. Just a problem I wanted to solve and a laptop. So I started anyway.

June to August was idea building and app development. Whenever I wasn't at work, I was learning. Figuring it out. Trying to turn an idea into something real.

I launched the first beta in early August.

V1.0.0 launched on the App Store after a very long month of rejections. There were problems with the app that I just had no idea how to fix. I kept being stuck in a loophole.

I realised pretty quickly that gym-goers don't just want exercise names, they want to see how to actually perform them properly.

So I rebuilt RepEight's exercise system around a new library of 1,400+ exercises, each with demo GIFs and form tips. This became the new foundation of the app.