Taking UvuYoga on the Road: Two San Diego Rooms, One Ask

Last month I did something a little outside my comfort zone as a developer: I stopped building for a bit and started talking about what I built.
I took UvuYoga — my yoga practice and teaching app — in front of two very different San Diego audiences. Same app, same story, two completely different rooms. One had never written a line of code in their life. The other wanted to see my slides and poke holes in my business model. Both taught me something I couldn't have learned staring at my software editor.
Here's how it went, and a small ask at the end if you're reading this.

Room one: The Group SD in Normal Heights

The first talk was for The Group SD (https://www.thegroupcoastal.com/north-park-chapter), a networking crowd that meets in Normal Heights. This was a non-technical room — small business owners, creatives, people who care more about what a thing does for them than how it's wired underneath.
So I didn't talk about the tech stack. I told them the story of why I built a yoga app.
UvuYoga started as a personal portfolio project. It was a yoga sequencing tool, nothing fancy. I took yoga teacher training in 2024 and realized that yoga teachers still use paper journals to save their practice. I figured this was a useful website to make. Plus it let me show what I could build as a web developer. Then, in early 2026, I was laid off. And instead of pouring my energy into applicant tracking systems, I poured it into this yoga app.
That's when UvuYoga stopped being a portfolio site and started becoming a real product. I leaned hard into AI-augmented development, and features I never would've had time to build alone. I built a yoga platform that you can build your personal practice in, then grow as a teacher able to manage your own classes and students.
The Normal Heights room responded to the human part of that. Not the tech. The idea that a setback can become the exact push you needed to build the thing you'd been putting off.

Room two: 1 Million Cups in the Convoy District

The second talk was a different animal. 1 Million Cups (https://www.1millioncups.com/s/account/0014W00002AqQfaQAF/san-diego-ca) is a weekly gathering of tech founders and entrepreneurs — part of a national program built on the idea that honest feedback over coffee moves a business forward faster than working in isolation. Two people present each week, and the real value isn't the pitch; it's the twenty minutes of pointed questions afterward.
This room wanted strategy. So I gave them slides and we went deep.
We talked about who UvuYoga is actually for and how the tiers work:

• A free personal tier — build an asana library, design flows, and chain them into full sequences. Free, forever. This is where most people start.
• A Teacher tier — class management, session scheduling, attendance tracking, and student booking, all from your phone. This is where UvuYoga turns from a personal tool into a small business tool for an instructor.
• Spotify playlists on any flow or sequence, on every tier, so the right soundtrack is paired with the practice and ready to play from the mat. We talked about the "first 100 teachers free forever" offer, why I'm using it to seed the teacher side of the product, and the classic two-sided challenge every platform like this faces: you need teachers to attract students, and students to make teaching worthwhile. The room pushed on all of it, and I walked out with a sharper view of my next three months than I'd had walking in. ## What talking about it taught me Building in a room by yourself, you convince yourself your assumptions are facts. Standing in front of people who don't share your assumptions is how you find out which ones are actually true. The non-technical room reminded me that the story matters. The founder room reminded me that a good story still needs a business underneath it. UvuYoga needs both, and I left both talks with a clearer sense of what to build next and who to build it for. Don’t worry I am not sinking the ship with needless features. I also relearned something simple: shipping is only half the job. Telling people it exists is the other half — and most of us who love the building part are quietly terrible at the telling part. These two talks were me getting reps in on the half I'm worse at. ## The ask Here's where you come in. Try UvuYoga. It's free to start, no credit card — go to uvuyoga.com, build a flow, chain a sequence, attach a playlist. Then tell me what you honestly think. What clicked, what confused you, what's missing. Blunt feedback is the most useful gift you can give an early product, and I'd rather hear from users now while I am still in Beta. And if you know small yoga studios or yoga instructors, I'd love an introduction. The first 100 teacher accounts are free forever, and I want them in the hands of teachers who'll actually put the tool through its paces and tell me where it breaks. That's it. Try it, tell me the truth, and connect me with the teachers in your life. Every one of those moves the app forward more than another week of me building in silence. Thanks for reading — and if we haven't met yet, here's more about me and my work.