The story behind Kurvi

In the summer of 2024 I lost my job after layoffs. I had always been interested in coding, but the right moment had never come. Now it had, and I started studying programming right away.

First I took free university coding courses. My brother was studying at Salon seudun ammattiopisto and spoke highly of it, so I decided to apply.

My studies at Salon seudun ammattiopisto began at the beginning of September 2024. The studies were remote, so I could focus on them completely.

I have always believed that you learn best by doing. That is why the program suited me well: the basics were covered quickly.

I wrote the first lines of Kurvi's code on 17 April 2025, and from then on I worked on it practically full time alongside school.

At first Kurvi was just a practice project: the idea was to build something real and learn along the way. Then it took over, and little by little it grew into an app that brings all of your wellbeing tracking into one place. Behind it was my own 20 years of experience training at the gym.

Kurvi started out as a web app. I quickly realised it would not get far that way, so I started learning mobile development.

From the start I decided not to download any similar apps, so they would not influence me. I wanted Kurvi to be completely its own and to clearly stand out from the crowd. I think I succeeded fairly well: Kurvi stands apart from other apps in both its colors and how it works.

I graduated from Salon seudun ammattiopisto on 31 March 2026 with top grades, much faster than planned.

The first test version of Kurvi went out to Google Play internal testing on 24 May 2026, and it officially launched on Google Play on 16 July 2026. It arrived on the App Store for iPhone on 13 August 2026.

Kurvi now has over 500 users, including paying customers. Kurvi is entirely my own work from start to finish, from the code to the marketing.

When I started, all I had was the basic ChatGPT, and I wrote almost all of the code myself. I believe that has made a huge difference in where I am now and how I understand code. Today things are completely different: AI has advanced so much that you hardly write the code yourself anymore. I am the architect, and I need to understand every part of it.

Every new version goes through hundreds of automated tests before it reaches users. If a bug still slips through, I get an alert right away and can usually fix it directly in the app.

I am truly grateful to the few users who have been with Kurvi from the very first test version to this day and given important feedback. Without them I probably would not be here now. Thank you also to the Power&Go gym chain, which believed in Kurvi and started supporting it right from the beginning.

Kurvi's story is hopefully only just beginning, and the best chapters are still ahead.

Train hard, everyone! If you have not downloaded Kurvi yet, come try it and tell me what you think.