OUR FOUNDING STORY
Repyra was founded by Denish Vaghasia and Nidhi Davara after years of navigating crowded local gyms, impossible trainer fees, and western fitness apps that couldn't understand a Gujarati thali.
THE REAL PROBLEM
In almost every Indian city, hiring a personal trainer costs between ₹3,000 and ₹10,000 every single month. For students, young professionals, and busy family members, that fee is completely unsustainable. When founders Denish Vaghasia and Nidhi Davara started training in local gyms across Gujarat, they encountered the exact same frustrating reality as millions of other lifters: a gym trainer hands you a photocopied workout sheet on day one, gives ten minutes of rushed instruction, and then disappears into the evening crowd to push overpriced, unnecessary supplements.
Foreign fitness apps only made the problem worse. American apps counted calories in cups of raw kale, avocado toast, and quinoa. They had never heard of a thepla, rotli, yellow dal, sev tameta, or a katori of khichdi. Logging a home-cooked Indian dinner was an exercise in frustration and wild guesswork. Without anatomical guidance, Denish suffered painful shoulder impingements from copying gym bro-science, while Nidhi struggled to hit daily protein requirements on a traditional vegetarian diet without force-feeding raw protein powders.
They realized that lifters in India didn't lack dedication or discipline—they lacked software engineered for their food, their anatomy, and their gym realities.
THE ENGINEERING JOURNEY
From a kitchen weighing scale in Gujarat to an offline-first 3D biomechanics engine used across India.
Nidhi Davara brought a precision scale to the dining table. For months, she systematically weighed, cooked, and calibrated staple Gujarati and Indian foods: the exact flour grams in a phulka vs a bajra rotla, yellow mung dal density, and optimal paneer pairings. This formed our verified 235+ regional food database.
Denish Vaghasia, a software engineer, automated the metabolic equations. Instead of generic targets, he implemented Mifflin-St Jeor formulas adjusted for regional vegetarian profiles, weekly Sunday scorecards (1-100), and an adaptive planner that recalculates volume if you log 'sore' or miss a session.
To eliminate expensive trainer fees forever, Denish built interactive 3D anatomical guides where working prime-mover muscles glow in green. The engine suggests automatic +2.5 kg weight increases when you hit rep targets and offers alternative machine swaps when the gym is packed.
Indian basement gyms frequently lose mobile signal. Denish engineered Repyra as a lightweight Progressive Web App (PWA) with zero App Store friction. It installs straight from Chrome or Safari, operates 100% offline, and syncs workout data seamlessly when signal returns.
What started as a private spreadsheet and a local web prototype for Denish and Nidhi quickly caught fire. Friends in the gym wanted it; local gym owners asked for trainer panels, QR check-in, and GST billing. Today, Repyra powers individual athletes and facility owners nationwide.
THE FOUNDING TEAM
Built, maintained, and continually enhanced by two founders who use the product every single day.
Denish engineered the Repyra 3D biomechanics engine, Mifflin-St Jeor metabolic equations, and offline PWA stack after years of training in local Gujarat gyms without affordable personal coaching.
Nidhi spearheaded the 235+ regional Indian food database, vegetarian macro calibration, and recovery routines, making authentic Gujarati meals work for serious athletic performance.
The app's interactive 3D anatomical visualizer utilizes Three.js with Mixamo skeletal rigging. Food compositions are calibrated from National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) standards and verified Indian nutrition databases, curated directly by Denish and Nidhi.