The origin story

Picture this: I'm deep in the trenches of another project — heads down, tunnel vision, spreadsheets open, the whole developer arc. Then my wife sends me a TikTok. No context. No “hey check this out.” Just a link. A cold drop.

The video? Some fitness instructor talking about how there's no good app for building and managing workout curricula. Not the “track your macros and count your steps” kind — the actual teaching side. The class planning. The exercise sequencing. The “I teach 14 classes a week and I'm using Google Sheets and vibes” kind.

My wife — who is a fitness instructor herself — looked at me with that look. The “you could build this” look. The look that has historically preceded me losing sleep for three months straight.

I said, “I'm already working on something.”

She said, “This is better.”

Reader, she was right. She's always right. (She will read this page and I will hear about it if I don't say that.)

So I did what any reasonable engineer does: I abandoned my existing project, opened a fresh repo, and started building Teaser — a real curriculum platform designed for the people who actually teach fitness classes, not tech bros who went to a spin class once and decided they could “disrupt” the industry.

Every feature in this app was born from conversations with instructors, tested by instructors, and refined until it felt like the tool they'd been duct-taping together with five different apps. Because that's exactly what it replaces.

The other project? It's fine. It understands. Probably.