Shake helps Vitruvian build meaningful relationships with users.

Vitruvian is a fitness app paving the way for at-home fitness with an app that carefully tracks, plans and creates workouts best suited to its users. Acting as your personal trainer, the app diaries your workouts providing data on the progress you make – no matter how big or small. 

We spoke to Software engineer Nathan Castlehow and talked about how Shake SDK has helped them give users the best experience, working out. 

It was really important for them to have a product that allowed them to; 

Before Shake, Vitruvian was using a competing bug reporting tool and found that it was too expensive. After a quick Google search and comparison between the reporting tools, Nathan said joining Shake was a no-brainer – “It’s cheaper and offers all the features we need, plus crash reports”. 

While we specialize in bug reporting, Shake Crash was launched in 2021 to track fatal issues (similar to Firebase Crashlytics) on iOS and Android apps.

Vitruvian has been using Shake in production for just over a year. Nathan expressed that by using it in production “users are more involved”, giving users a sense of purpose in making the app more accessible. For Vitruvian, this allows them to have a supply/demand relationship with their users. 

Furthermore, Nathan explains that when updates or changes are made, having immediate customer feedback is very useful to the team in development.

“One of my favorite parts of using Shake is how easy it is for the customers. You get an immediate screenshot, and logs where we can locate the issue”, says Nathan. In Vitruvian’s case, it’s almost like cutting out the middleman – when the process of reporting is so quick and easy it’s the users that become your new testers. 

“We’ve been able to work through hundreds of issues as a result”, he adds.

The team at Vitruvian uses Slack integration, to discuss issues internally and keep an eye on any recurring bugs or crashes, which they have found to be very useful. 

Nathan says that like with all apps “We make changes daily”, only by using Shake in their app, they’re able to make the changes that users really want to see. Putting out new versions of their app, Vitruvian sees immediate feedback from users and always has a pretty good idea of what to do next. 

Vitruvian is planning to continue using Shake in production to put out better versions of their app and cater to their users more effectively, giving them long-time use of their app and products.