✨ HIGHLIGHT ✨
December 23rd 2025 is when I started working on a small platform that allowed Muthu to manage his members at Strength Tales and allowed his members to reschedule their sessions.
47 days later, Strongerr was launched today! I worked on it diligently through nights & weekends to get it here and what a buzz it was to launch it and see requests come in.
Its been such a consolidated effort between Muthu and I - going back and forth on questions and decisions about how the platform needs to serve his needs and the needs of all his members. To take an app from 0 to 1 is a feel like none other.
And I don’t think I’d have taken on this endeavour if it wasn’t for AI assisted programming to be where it is today. The entire application was written with AI assistance and I took a Claude Max membership to do it. And it was totally worth it. Note: This is very different from vibe coding things because I have looked at every line of code that’s gone into the system.
We are in an era where 47 days is all it takes to go from idea to a production working application. That too done by 1 person working on an average maybe 10 hours in a week.
The future of software engineering is changing.
So if you’re a small gym owner and are looking for a way to manage your members and to give them agency and autonomy about their sessions, then I have a solution for you - Strength Tales already uses it :)
In my journey to find the next book to read, one of the mornings on my poop-time-shorts-scrolling, I happened upon Brandon Sanderson again and went into a bit of a rabbit hole.
The fact that he has laws for his magic in his Cosmere universe and has a full set of writing lectures available to the public on YouTube really amazed me.
So I thought I’ll try out one of his books. Its important to note here that I am NOT a fantasy reader. The last time I picked up a fantasy novel was Terry Pratchett’s The colour of magic and I detested it. I tried it as a kindle book AND as an audiobook and both ways failed me and I thought I was done with fantasy. Harry Potter would be the last one that I read in that genre.
So when I picked up Sanderson’s Mistborn, I went in with very very very very low expectations.
And … I was blown away. I’m only some 23% into the novel and everything about it is AMAZING? The last time I was this obsessed with a book was Project Hail Mary and the ones close to me will know how mad I am about that book.
Have I become a fantasy-head? Perhaps, perhaps - for now.
So if you were able to relate to this, then its your sign to pick up Mistborn. Just go for it. It is a fantastic novel (already).
I met the badminton boys for breakfast at Sortd. I find the food there very mid but their Cortado was good.
Above all, the company was excellent :)
I’ve been laying down the ground work on a (perhaps) new project that I might be taking up, now that Strongerr is almost feature complete.
The project is about reworking the backend and frontend for a friend’s firm that operates in the automobile sector. We’ve been spending evenings sitting down over coffee with a piece of paper and discussing what we want the system to look like and what are the constraints.
I love this part of a project - where we start from scratch (without inventing the universe) and imagine the final solution together.
I wish to take this up and build it out as solidly as I know I have built Strongerr. A few more discussion sessions and we might be good to go on the next steps.
Since the past two weeks I’ve been having issues with my skin. It is what I believe to be called attic area and it annoying as fuck.
Thankfully the dermatologist I went to was very helpful and gave me great guidance on how to manage it and medicate for it. Its reduced a lot of the way and only about 10% is probably left out to heal up but boy what a journey it was.
I don’t recommend it, kids. Get your skin checked out early on if things don’t feel okay.
This was such a fulfilling week. And I’m feeling very thankful for having people around me, that get the kind of time and space building something takes.
I have a partner who understands this very deeply and encourages this of me. I have friends who will get on a call with me as the product is released and partake in the happiness that comes with. I have a client who was as excited for this launch as I was. I don’t know if I can have more great things at the same time.
If I could have just one more great thing, I’d have wished for my FIL to be around to see my work on Strongerr - he’d have been proud of me, I think? He was always a gym rat. So, this one’s for you, Ragz.
Till next week 👋🏻
Date
February 8, 2026
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