I shouldn't need 20 apps to know what's happening this week
I follow FC Barcelona. I watch Carlos Alcaraz play whenever I can. I keep an eye on KOI in the League of Legends scene. I like to catch good Steam deals so I can play online with my brother back in Spain once a month. My girlfriend tracks concerts and fashion sales. Between the two of us, we probably check a dozen different apps just to stay on top of things we actually care about.
And we still miss stuff.
Not because we don’t care. Because events are scattered everywhere. One app for football. Another for concerts. Another for game deals. Some random team’s official app that sends 40 notifications a day but somehow not the one that matters. Half the time I end up Googling “Barcelona next match” because I don’t trust any single app to just tell me.
This has been bugging me for about three years.
The idea that wouldn’t go away
I first thought about this problem around 2022. My initial instinct was something like a social network for events; big, broad, ambitious. Big first-idea energy. I didn’t act on it because I had other things going on, but the idea never left. It just sat in the back of my head, maturing.
Over time, I realized I didn’t want to build a social network. Nobody needs more feeds, more likes, more noise. What I wanted was the opposite — a single calm app that tracks everything for you and shuts up until something actually matters.
Subscribe to what you care about. Get notified when things happen. That’s it.
That’s Retempo.
Why me
I’ve been building things online since I was 14. My first real project was AresRO, a private Ragnarok Online server — if you know, you know. I convinced my mum to pay 400€ for a dedicated server because my home internet couldn’t handle the traffic. That server ended up being one of the two biggest in Spain. It taught me coding, databases, Linux, and what it feels like when something you build gets real traction.
Since then, I’ve worked as an engineer, led startups, and consulted for tech companies. My strongest trait is probably that I think business first while having a good technical background.
Retempo started during my Christmas holidays in 2025. I’d been thinking about it for years, but the product had finally matured in my head to the point where I knew exactly what it should be. Not a social platform. Not an event marketplace. A subscription-based calendar that keeps you in sync with the things you follow: teams, artists, tournaments, venues, game studios, whatever.
What it actually does
You subscribe to calendars. A calendar can be a team, an artist, a league, a venue; anything that produces events. Retempo aggregates all of it into one feed, sorted by date, filtered by your location. When something’s coming up — a match tomorrow, a concert next week, a game dropping on Friday — you get a clean notification.
No manual entry. No checking six apps. No noise.
The app knows where you are and shows you what’s relevant. If you’re in Dubai, you see what’s happening around you. If Barcelona is playing at 3am your time, you still know about it — but you’re not getting spammed about a local event 8,000 km away that you can’t attend.
Where we are
I’m building Retempo solo from the UAE. No funding, no team. Just me, a lot of coffee, and a problem I couldn’t stop thinking about.
The app is almost ready for beta. If keeping track of the stuff you like feels like too much work, Retempo is being built for you.
More updates soon. Follow along on Twitter/X at @retempoapp.
- Quim