Walking is good for you. As a tech person, you are probably like me: not doing enough of it. This gamified app (using a light "Duolingo" approach") is designed to remind you to walk more every day, and help you protect you health while having fun.
After a successful soft launch in France with 1,000 users, the app has just been released to all countries.
To celebrate and help it gain some attention, the lifetime VIP offer has been made free for some time.
This way, you can test all features and start walking more today! 😎
Congratulations on the launch. This reminds me of a product called Stepn. However, that product was a complete scam, while you have created an interesting gamified experience! I am really looking forward to your success!
@brandon_cccc Thanks Brandon for your message! You are right, seeing the success of Stepn made me realize that something could be done with tracking people's steps and adding some fun layers around it.
But Web3 economies have been challenging to sustain in this field, which is why I didn't go there!
I hope you try the app and have fun ;)
Really like the gamification and personas of the app which is quite interesting and could help build long-term habits.
Curious about how you plan to strengthen the differentiation against apps like Strava/Stepbet.
Also, check out https://stepsetgo.com/ - it's a walking app that got really popular in India around Covid time.
There are some fun ideas around how they use in-app currency for redeeming rewards, active time during specific parts of the day to earn more rewards for steps taken during that time. There's community games like monthly challenges but also custom challenges, then they have auctions/trading and other stuff - which adds to the gamification part of the app.
The mechanism around tiers/upgrading to different levels is fun too.
Great job and congrats on the launch :)
@kshitij1108 Hi, first of all thanks for your detailed message!
Also, I didn't know about stepsetgo, it seems very interesting with some cool ideas, I am definitely checking it out to look for inspiration.
Regarding active time during the day, this is something I have in the pipe 😄 I found this feature as well as other things you just mentioned in https://sweatco.in/, which has been a big inspiration too.
Regarding the differentiation, I am mostly focused on:
- Maximum gamification, it's not just about tracking and numbers, but also about more advanced psychological things (streaks, leagues with other players...)
- Avoid to have "real money" involved like a lot of walking apps that pay you to walk. It's great on paper, but these models usually have very very high inflation as soon as the users flow in, which makes the rewards worthless very fast (and the users dissatisfied)
- In the future, if the project goes well and is financially sustainable, I would like to develop the social aspect much more with friends challenges, guilds...
Thanks again for your thoughts, very appreciated!
@hello_explora sounds amazing. Excited to see what comes ahead, good luck :)
Report
Hi Luc, congrats on the launch on PH. I haven't downloaded the app yet but from what I see it looks awesome. Duolingo is one of the apps I have used daily for over 2 years and I love the gamification part of it. It is good to see this approached being applied to other things, especially anything related to health.
By the way, it does not seem like a simple app. How long did it take to build it?
@theanamoura Hi Ana, thanks a lot for your comment!
Good question, basically it lasted around 6 months.
The timeline is a bit like this:
- 1 month - make an MVP
- 1 month - collect feedback
- 1 month - make an alpha
- 1 month - collect feedback
- 1 month - make a beta
- 1 month - make some business KPIs & UA tests
And here we are :)
Report
@hello_explora wow that is very impressive! Good job you guys. 👏👏
Report
Congratulations on your launch I think it could potentially enhance its appeal by providing deeper insights into health metrics. More detailed analytics might help users understand the impact of their activities better.
@jessica_herman2 Hi Jessica, thanks a lot for taking the time to check the app.
This is actually something many users already asked, you're in the right. It's definitely in the top part of my backlog. :)
Walking Games: Explora
Walking Games: Explora
Riffo
Walking Games: Explora
ClothingAI
Walking Games: Explora
Inrō
Walking Games: Explora
Inrō
Walking Games: Explora
Walking Games: Explora