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.

Eventually, after late nights debugging edge cases, it was approved. RepEight was real.

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.

The goal was always simple: make tracking in the gym as frictionless as possible. With V1.5.3, we added automated PR detection, instant 1RM math, and launched fully on Google Play for Android users.

Building in public and shipping updates based on real user feedback.

RepEight stopped being just a tracker. I rebuilt the AI coach from the ground up so it briefs you before a session, debriefs you after and answers questions about your lifts, all from what you've actually logged.

Training also got more social: a friends feed, leaderboards and groups, because the gym is better with your mates.