How Aulency started
The story, first person — by Erik, co-founder.
It started in an English lesson
In early 2025, I started taking private English lessons. Between bits of conversation, my teacher would vent about the part nobody sees: the paperwork, the organizing, the payments that slipped through. I'd ask how she stayed organized, and the answer was always the same — a spreadsheet. One spreadsheet for everything. That's when she told me she'd once logged one student's payment under another's name, and that booking a single lesson meant checking everyone's availability and doing the math by hand.
I figured it could be fixed
The more I listened, the more obvious it got: this was a software problem. I brought in a co-founder, also a developer, and made her an offer — I'd build the system for free, and in return she'd put it to real use, day to day, with her own students. She'd be the first. That's how Aulency began: not in a meeting, but inside the problem, alongside the person who dealt with it every day.
Today
Aulency has been live for a few months now, and she runs around 45 students on it. I'm one of them, still in lessons every week. And everything we learn from her real-world use only makes Aulency better. Now it feels like the right time to open Aulency up to other teachers.
"We didn't build software for teachers. We built it with one."
Erik · co-founder