About 3 years ago I started building a workout tracking app because my brother and I wanted to motivate each other to stay consistent at the gym, but we lived in different cities. We needed a way to see what the other person was doing without texting each other every time one of us finished a workout.
I'm a developer and I lift, so I thought this would be pretty straightforward. Maybe 3 months of work and I'd have something I could launch. Turns out I was completely wrong about that.
I spent about a year coding the first version and launched it. People started using it, but I wasn't happy with it. There were too many bugs, the infrastructure was bad, and every time I opened the app I had this feeling that something was going to crash. About a year ago I made the call to redo everything from scratch. That took another full year of work, but at least now it's built on a foundation I can actually be proud of.
Fast forward to now and I have over 2100 people using Repify. That still feels surreal to me.
The core idea is pretty simple. A solid workout tracker with interesting insights, and you can follow other people who motivate you to show up.
Still adding features and fixing things based on feedback. The app is free to download and all the core features are completely free. There are some premium features behind a subscription, but I tried to make sure everything essential is available to everyone.
Check it out on the App Store if you want: apps.apple.com/us/app/repify-…
If anyone here has thoughts or uses it, I'd love to hear what works or what doesn't. I'm basically building this based on what people actually tell me they need.
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